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CWI May Day greetings to workers and the oppressed fighting against capitalism worldwide

April 30, 2019 CWI

The Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI) sends revolutionary May Day greetings to all workers and oppressed people fighting against capitalism worldwide. We commemorate the struggles and sacrifices of past generations of fighters and martyrs in […]

India: General election shows crying need for independent socialist alternative

April 30, 2019 Jagadish G Chandra, New Socialist Alternative (CWI India)

The huge exercise of India’s 2019 General Election is under way across the country’s 29 states and seven Union territories.

SAS walkout disrupts Nordic air travel

April 29, 2019 Edmund Schluessel, Sosialistinen Vaihtoehto (CWI in Finland)

Hundreds of flights in Norway, Sweden and Denmark have been canceled as 1400 pilots for Scandinavian carrier SAS began strike action this Friday. Pilots took the step of escalating to strike action after collective bargaining […]

45th anniversary of the Portuguese revolution

April 27, 2019 Manny Thain, Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)

This week marks the 50th anniversary of the ‘carnation’ Portuguese revolution. A half-century of brutal right-wing dictatorship rule was swept aside in a day. The revolution started at 12.25 am, on Thursday 25 April 1974, […]

Ireland North: Who are the ‘dissident’ republicans?

April 26, 2019 Niall Mulholland, from May 2019 edition of Socialism Today (monthly magazine of the Socialist Party England & Wales)

Although violence has remained at a relatively low level in Northern Ireland since the ending of the ‘Troubles’, the recent killing of the young journalist, Lyra McKee, in Derry city, by a republican armed group, […]

Ireland North: After the death of Lyra McKee unions must show way forward

April 26, 2019 Socialist Party (Ireland) Statement

The killing of Lyra McKee on Thursday 19 April sent a wave of shock across Northern Ireland. Lyra was only 29 years old but had already made a name for herself as a journalist, an […]

‘Feminism for the 99%’- A manifesto to change the world?

April 25, 2019 Christine Thomas, from Socialism Today, May 2019 issue

What force is needed to end the discrimination and division rooted in the capitalist system? Can the global women’s movements become the main agency for change? Is the organised working class now redundant? Christine Thomas […]

Britain: Extinction Rebellion protests – How to save the planet?

April 24, 2019 Editorial from The Socialist, weekly paper of the Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)

Courage, determination and ingenuity have been on display among the thousands of people coming together in the creative and colourful protests coordinated by Extinction Rebellion in London and elsewhere.

Ireland North: Trade unionists respond to killing of journalist Lyra McKee

April 23, 2019 Anton McCabe, national executive council, National Union of Journalists (personal capacity), and Socialist Party member (CWI Ireland)

Working class people from across the sectarian divide in Northern Ireland were revulsed by the shooting and death of a young female journalist, Lyra McKee, in Derry city, last Thursday evening. Anton McCabe, National Executive Council […]

‘Extinction Rebellion’: What does it stand for?

April 23, 2019 Mark Best, from Socialism Today (April 2019 issue), monthly magazine of the Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)

Last week, thousands took part in Extinction Rebellion protests in central London, with over 1,000 people arrested. Mark Best looks at the background to the campaigning group and what socialists think needs to be done […]