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Bangladesh government orders brutal crackdown against protests demanding jobs

July 26, 2024 Text of a Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales) leaflet t

The following is the text of a Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales) leaflet that is being distributed at large protests in London and other parts of Britain, involving many Bangladeshis and others, over the […]

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The Creative Historiography of ‘Internationalist Standpoint’

July 26, 2024 Sascha Staničić, national spokesperson of Sol (CWI Germany) and member of the International Executive Committee of the CWI

In favour of a Marxist balance sheet of the CWI split A response to “The implosion of the ISA: Can the good traditions of the CWI be saved?” by Andros Payiatsos Andros Payiataos’s article on […]

USA | Biden Leaves Presidential Race

July 25, 2024 Lenny Shail, Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales) Executive Committee

Fight for Working Class Political Alternative “America has passed through one of Lenin’s weeks in which decades happen” was how the capitalist Economist magazine started one of its leaders referencing the famous remark of the […]

Britain: The Labour government and the trade unions

July 24, 2024 Editorial of the Socialist issue 1284

Is British prime minister Keir Starmer going to “give the unions what they want”? That was the question put to him about the whole swathe of public-sector pay deals, with recommendations due in the next […]

Right-Wing Populism and Polarisation

July 22, 2024 Sascha Staničić, national spokesperson of Sol - Sozialistische Organisation Solidarität (CWI Germany)

The phenomenon of right-wing populism is not new in most countries, but there is much to suggest that it has reached a new level. Not only because in opinion polls and elections the share of […]

Climate change: Who should pay for the crisis?

July 19, 2024 Oscar Parry, from The Socialist (weekly newspaper of the Socialist Party - CWI England & Wales)

A recent BBC interview with the president of Guyana, Irfaan Ali, has racked up millions of views. In it, he calls out the hypocrisy of the interviewer questioning his government’s plans to extract billions of […]

BRITAIN | Right-wing Run Labour Party “swept into power” on 20% Vote Share

July 18, 2024 CWI

Volatile Period Opens Up Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour Party has been swept into power in Britain – by 20.1% of the electorate, the lowest share for any incoming government since the first ever election fought […]

Trump assassination attempt exposes US political polarisation

July 17, 2024 Statement by the Executive Committee of the Independent Socialist Group (US)

On Saturday 13 July, a lone gunman fired shots at presidential candidate Donald Trump at a rally in Pennsylvania, killing one audience member and wounding two others. Trump himself walked away after a bullet grazed […]

General election in north of Ireland reflects sharpening community polarisation

July 16, 2024 Militant Left (CWI Ireland) statement

The UK general election resulted in a historic defeat for the Conservative Party in England and Wales, and the Scottish National Party (SNP) in Scotland, with Keir Starmer’s pro-capitalist Labour Party gaining a majority in […]

Scottish National Party plummets from 48 to 9 MPs in general election

July 10, 2024 Socialist Party Scotland (CWI)

Aside from the Tories, the biggest losers in the UK general election, which took place on 4 July, were the Scottish National Party (SNP). They emerged bloodied with just nine MPs, down from the 48 […]