Glenn Kelly, Socialist Party (England & Wales) Industrial Organiser, Author at Socialist World Media

German engineering workers’ struggle puts shorter working week on agenda but more could been won

February 15, 2018 Glenn Kelly, Socialist Party (England & Wales) Industrial Organiser

With one in four of all full time workers working over 40 hours a week in the UK, the notion of a proper “work life balance” to be able to spend more time with your […]

Youth protests take place ahead of Russia’s ‘no-choice’ presidential election

February 14, 2018 Rob Jones, Socialist Alternative (CWI Russia) Moscow

Once again, a presidential election in Russia looms and for the fifth time since 2000 there is a simple choice; either Putin or one of the other candidates, none of whom has a chance of […]

Political crisis sharpens following Sri Lanka’s local elections

February 13, 2018 TU Senan, CWI

Dramatic political upheavals are the order of the day in the era of capitalist crisis and that is what has taken place in Sri Lanka – but with special island characteristics. Former prime minister Mahinda […]

Serbia: Sacked Knjaz Miloš water company workers threaten hunger strike

February 12, 2018 CWI Reporter

Unjustly sacked workers of a water company in Serbia have been in a legal battle with the management for many years, and now the situation has become so desperate that they are organising a hunger […]

Britain: 100 years since women won the vote

February 6, 2018 Eleanor Donne, from The Socialist (31 January 2018) newspaper of the Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)

It is 100 years since the first women in the UK won the right to vote in parliamentary elections. It took years of struggle and the largest mobilisation of women in Britain’s history to achieve […]

Big political strike against Finnish government’s attack on unemployed

February 4, 2018 Edmund Schluessel, Sosialistinen Vaihtoehto (CWI Finland)

Helsinki was at a standstill on Friday, 2 February, as a strike by the transport union, AKT, quickly escalated into national action against the so-called “Active Model” of unemployment. Under the active model, unemployed people […]

Swiss Press Agency workers strike over job cuts

February 2, 2018 Media worker, Vienna

Swiss press agency staff at SDA-ATS went on indefinite strike, starting on 30 January. This is very significant strike action given that it is the first in the Swiss press agency’s history and it is […]

Canada: Countrywide protests against coffee shop chain’s attack on workers

February 1, 2018 Tim Heffernan and Bill Hopwood, Socialist Alternative (CWI Canada)

Tim Hortons is a national chain of over 4,000 coffee and doughnuts shops across Canada. Founded by a famous hockey player, it has become a Canadian icon often, known as ‘Timmies’. It is also the […]

Britain: Labour civil war re-erupts over Haringey regeneration project

January 31, 2018 Hannah Sell, Socialist Party deputy general secretary

The abolition of ‘Clause IV Part IV’ – the socialist clause in the Labour Party’s constitution introduced in the aftermath of the Russian revolution – was carried out by Tony Blair in 1995. It symbolised […]

Vietnam War: 50 years since the Tet Offensive

January 30, 2018 Peter Taaffe, from The Socialist (weekly newspaper of the Socialist Party, England &Wales, 24 January 2018)

On 30 January 1968 the National Liberation Front (NLF) and the People’s Army of Vietnam launched the Tet Offensive against US and allied troops in South Vietnam. On the 50th anniversary of this key stage […]