25 November was International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. Below we print extracts of a leaflet the Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales) produced for campaigning on the issue of gender violence […]
Kyle Rittenhouse, the 17-year-old who shot three protestors and killed two during the Jacob Blake protests in Kenosha, Wisconsin, was acquitted of all charges yesterday. The police shooting of Jacob Blake on August 23rd, 2020 […]
Socialism 2021, a weekend event of debates and discussion in London organised by the Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales), brimmed with determination. Determination to overcome the obstacles of time, resources, technical hitches, and the […]
Fearful of the continuing mass uprising across Sudan in opposition to the military coup of October 25th, Prime Minister Hamdok was formally restored to his position, on Sunday 21 November, following an internationally brokered agreement […]
On 19 November, Narendra Modi, Prime Minister of India, announced the repealing of three farm bills passed last year by his government. It is truly a historic victory of India’s farmers and of the wider […]
On Sunday, 14 November, elections took place in Argentina in which the Peronist government was the main loser. This was despite the big demonstrations they called, mobilizing the trade union federations that they still control, […]
The Sinn Féin chair of a shambolic meeting of Fermanagh and Omagh District Council has excluded independent anti-goldmining Councillor Emmet McAleer from a Council meeting. During most of the meeting, the chair only called his […]
The Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales) is hosting Socialism 2021 this coming weekend – the biggest in-person socialist event this year in Britain, which is also available to attend online. We need the chance […]
The political sparring between the regimes in Belarus and Russia, on the one side, and Poland, the EU, USA, and Nato, on the other side, is squaring up for a bruising fistfight. Pressured by Western […]
This week, a report by Nigeria’s official Judicial Panel of Inquiry into the October 20, 2020, state attack on #End SARS protesters at the Lekki Tollgate in Lagos, blew apart the Nigerian state’s continuous attempt […]
South Africa’s 2021 local government elections (LGE21) outcome marks the end of an era. For the first time since 1994, the African National Congress (ANC), the “party of liberation”, has crashed below 50%. The working […]
At the start of October, the International Monetary Fund slightly downgraded its predictions for global economic growth, citing the continued pandemic and the slow progress in vaccinating the world as the major factors. In addition, […]
COP26 has seen a set of headline pledges and agreements made between many of the world’s capitalist nations. Sadly, and expectedly, none of them will come close to resolving the climate crisis, even if the […]
After being in power since 2012, the coalition of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and Komeito (a conservative party linked to a lay Buddhist organisation) retained its majority in the Japanese Lower House election. The ruling […]
The shooting death of Halnya Hutchins on the set of Alec Baldwin’s film Rust is as heartbreaking as it was preventable. In the weeks leading up to the tragedy, crew members reported multiple misfires with […]
From 5-6 November, Glasgow saw some of the largest political mobilisations since the onslaught of the covid pandemic. The catalyst was the bosses’ summit, COP26, a forum to find ‘solutions’ to limit global warming, but […]
Today, 7 November, marks the 104th anniversary of the Russian Revolution – a world-historic event. The October revolution led to a huge transformation of the former repressive Czarist Empire – politically, economically, culturally, and also […]
For nearly 30 years, capitalist politicians have talked about tackling global warming – since discussions held in the run-up to the Earth summit of 1992. But, as BEN ROBINSON shows in an article first published […]
Portugal is facing a snap general election, two years early, after the ruling minority Socialist Party (PSP) government, headed by António Costa, failed to get its budget passed through parliament. Right-wing President Marcelo Rebelo de […]
“When the leaders speak of peace”, wrote the German socialist artist Bertolt Brecht while living in exile in 1937, “the people know that war is coming”. Brecht’s pithy epigram, from his German War Primer poem, […]
On 31 October, the Sindh Workers’ Alliance organized a discussion at the organisation’s office in Mirpur Khas, regarding Pakistan’s largest private housing project, the ‘Bharia Town’, and the protest movement against it and its aftermath. […]
The Socialist Party of Nigeria (SPN), Lagos State Chapter, commiserates with the families of those who lost their lives and those injured in another tragic incident of building collapse in Lagos State. According to 2nd […]
It’s been three years since the UN suggested 2030 as the cut-off date to prevent climate catastrophe. Since then – who can say we are on the path away from ecological disaster? Understanding is growing […]
COP26 – the global climate summit taking place in Glasgow from 1 November – will probably agree on something. Promises to hit a ‘net zero’ carbon emissions target by 2050 for example. But actually delivering […]
The Sudanese military regime is facing massive resistance. Faced with the threat of a renewed military dictatorship, across the country millions have protested and gone on strike, most recently a two-day general strike that stopped […]
The Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU) held its biennial conference in the Waterfront Hall in Belfast at the end of October. Militant Left (CWI Ireland) members actively participated in the proceedings raising the need […]
COP26 in Glasgow has begun with a show of working-class power. Over 800 members of the GMB trade union have shut down Glasgow cleansing services on day one of a planned week-long strike. Bin and refuse […]
On 27 October 2021, a hunger strike began by the mothers of political prisoners who were imprisoned as a result of the popular revolt in Chile, which began on 18 October 2019. Millions took to […]
The Tory government have finally published their strategy for the UK to achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. According to Boris Johnson, this will see the UK “lead the world in ending our contribution to […]
The proposed extradition of journalist and whistle-blower Julian Assange from Britain to the United States is a threat both to those who expose the wrong-doing of America’s ruling élite, to free speech, and to journalism […]
The UN’s climate change panel, the IPCC, says that it is ‘code red for humanity’; that a rise of 1.5°C in global temperatures is unavoidable over the next few decades and rises above that are […]
A military coup is taking place in Sudan. The army has arrested civilian ministers and their advisors. However, tens of thousands of protesters have taken to the streets in defiance with chants of: “The people […]
Rail, bus and council workers are preparing strike action during COP26. Socialist Party Scotland (CWI Scotland) offers our full support. The RMT rail and transport union has announced 12 days of strike action, from 1-12 […]
The victory of Sharon Graham as general secretary of Unite, amongst the biggest trade unions in the UK and Ireland and undoubtedly the most influential industrially and politically, has struck the labour movement as a […]
Last week, we saw an allocation of €37 million toward mental health in the budget of the right wing coalition government in Southern Ireland. This falls far short of the type of funding that is […]
The world leaders, including Boris Johnson and Joe Biden, will arrive at the COP26 climate conference starting on 31 October in their polluting private jets, to talk about how we must do more to prevent […]
A mass mobilization on Monday, October 18, showed us that the fight against the dictatorship of the capitalist and neoliberal right is still more in force than ever. Hundreds of thousands took to the streets […]
The UK government is hosting the 26th United Nations Climate Change ‘Conference of the Parties’ (COP26) in Glasgow from 31 October to 12 November 2021. The ‘Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’ (IPCC) was formed in […]
On the occasion of the first anniversary of the #EndSARS protest, the Youth Rights Campaign (YRC) salute all radical youth who stood against police brutality and state repression, last October, as well as those who […]
A combination of the rising cost of living, low pay, tax increases, and fuel and food shortages has led some commentators in the British establishment media to talk about the possibility of a new ‘winter […]
Premium Times, along with a few other media organizations in Nigeria, has been publishing daily exposures of the revelations they unearthed, alongside 600 journalists from 150 news organizations around the world, in a global investigation […]
This month completes two years since the social rebellion which began on 18 October 2019. This event, the most important in recent Chilean history, signalled a new chapter in the crisis of the entire political […]
Sebastian Kurz, for five years a shooting star of the European conservatives, had to “step aside” as Austria’s Chancellor on 9 October. His resignation comes amid criminal investigations against those closest to him and with […]
In September, the Tory government in Britain briefly dipped below Labour in opinion polls, as workers faced a winter of Tory rule featuring pay restraint, soaring prices, tax hikes and shortages. Boris Johnson’s Tory Party […]
Workers’ rights in Egypt are harshly repressed under President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi’s brutal regime. There have been very few strikes in recent years. Workplace activists have been jailed, where torture is widely used. However, two large […]
The COP 26 UN climate summit in Glasgow is now only a month away. Over 30,000 official participants, including US president Biden, UK prime minister Johnson, president Macron of France and a legion of elite […]
The recent acute shortages of energy, goods, and labour in some sectors in the UK stem in large part from UK-specific capitalist failings. But the volatile world situation is part of the background to those […]
The Texas ban on abortion has been put on hold by a Federal judge in Texas temporarily blocking its implementation by granting a request by the Biden administration to prevent any enforcement of the law […]
“The decision taken by delegates who predominantly live in what’s regarded as Labour red wall seats shows how far the Labour Party has travelled away from the aims and hopes of working-class organisations like ours”. […]
The Marxist Workers Party (CWI South Africa) stands in solidarity with the steel and engineering workers who began national strike action on 5 October. This action on pay is being led by Numsa, the dominant […]
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