Editorial from The Socialist (weekly paper of the Socialist Party, England & Wales), Author at Socialist World Media

Britain: Parliamentary ‘Brexishambles’ continues

April 3, 2019 Editorial from The Socialist (weekly paper of the Socialist Party, England & Wales)

Yet again as we go to press, the immediate future of the plans for Britain leaving the EU remains unclear. Three attempts at passing May’s Withdrawal Agreement couldn’t resolve it. Two rounds of MPs voting […]

Ireland North: Brexit crisis and the role of the workers’ movement

April 1, 2019 Ciaran Mulholland, Socialist Party (CWI Ireland), Belfast

The prolonged countdown to the UK’s withdrawal from the European Union has thrown the Conservative government into a profound crisis. The chaos is such that an anonymous European source has compared the UK to a […]

Algeria uprising: ‘We stay here until the whole system goes’

March 31, 2019 Sue Powell and Dave Carr, from The Socialist (weekly newspaper of the Socialist Party, CWI England & Wales)

Every Friday, since 22 February, hundreds of thousands of Algerians have been protesting against their infirm president – the figurehead of a decades’-long ruling clique – who is standing for a fifth term of office.

Corbyn and labour movement must mobilise to bring down Tories and force election

March 29, 2019 Editorial of the Socialist (issue 1035) ,weekly paper of the Socialist Party (England & Wales CWI)

The Tories imploding over Brexit: general election now! For a Corbyn government with socialist policies One in ten British adults says they trust MPs to do the right thing by the country over Brexit. Why so […]

Postal workers strike across Serbia

March 29, 2019 Dana Mirić, CWI

Postal workers in Serbia are on strike. Socialistworld.net has written before about the difficult conditions workers are faced with, followed with solidarity actions. Workers in Serbia feel isolated, so any messages of solidarity will be […]

Egypt’s 1919 revolution

March 25, 2019 David Johnson, Socialist Party (England & Wales)

The First World War was ended, in large part, by the Russian and German revolutions. Revolutionary uprisings followed in many other countries thrown into turmoil by the war. In March and April 1919, revolution shook […]

May’s government facing Brexit endgame

March 21, 2019 Editorial from The Socialist (weekly paper of the Socialist Party, England & Wales)

With just ten days until the date of departure from the EU at the time of writing, there is unprecedented daily turmoil in parliament on what will happen. The government’s position has become so intractable […]

New Zealand mosque terror atrocity: Workers’ struggle can cut off far right

March 20, 2019 Rob Williams, from The Socialist (weekly paper of the Socialist Party – CWI England & Wales)

Millions woke up on the morning of 15 March in shock to learn of the mass shooting at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand. It soon became clear this was a brutal far-right terrorist act, which […]

Ukraine still stuck in crisis – its future is in the hands of the working class

March 12, 2019 Rob Jones (Moscow) and Alexandr Shurman (Kyiv)

Ukraine has become one of the most crisis ridden states in Europe. Now a new round of elections is looming in which workers, the youth and all those who want a democratic and free society, […]

Socialists and workers celebrate IWD in Sind

March 11, 2019 CWI Reporters, Sind

International Women’s Day 2019 was celebrated by women workers from the “Sindh Workers Alliance” and “Socialist Movement Sindh” (CWI in Pakistan) at the Digri town of Mirpurkhas, in the Sindh, on 8th March 2019. The […]