Iran has been rocked by a new series of nationwide protests which have now entered a second week. Demonstrations began on 29 December as market traders and small business owners in Tehran closed down their […]
The latest round of cuts to Scotland’s colleges is yet another damning indictment of an education system suffocating under austerity and the failed priorities of both Holyrood and Westminster. For years, staff and students have […]
Fight US imperialist intervention with mass protests and the struggle for a democratic socialist alternative! Early today the Trump regime unleashed a bombing raid on Venezuela and used special forces to kidnap the President, Nicolas […]
The MESEM (Vocational Education Centers) system in Turkey has recently received attention both within the country and abroad after the unlawful arrest of 16 TİP (Türkiye Workers Party) youth members from several different universities. It […]
Last month marked 10,000 days since the re-establishment of local government at Stormont buildings, Belfast, following the Good Friday Agreement in 1998. Its failure to deliver social and economic improvements, let alone bridge the deep […]
On Sunday, December 14, 2025, the second round of presidential elections was held in Chile. The government candidate, Jeannette Jara, suffered a crushing defeat at the hands of the far-right candidate, José Antonio Kast. Jara […]
The findings of the ‘Operation Kenova’ inquiry, released last week in Belfast, into some of the British state’s covert operations during the ‘Troubles’ in the north of Ireland (approximately from 1969 to 1998) are a […]
We are pleased to publish this extraordinary article by Trotsky’s former secretary, Rae Spiegel, later known as Raya Dunayevskaya. With thanks to CWI comrade, Wayne Scott, this is the first time the article has been […]
US and imperialist forces out of the Caribbean, Central and South America! US imperialism, headed by Donald Trump, has launched a military build up in the Caribbean not seen for decades. The deployment of the USS Gerald R Ford […]
The largest hunger strike on these islands since the 1981 Republican prisoners’ protest in the Maze prison in the north of Ireland is barely being registered by the mass media. The Filton hunger strikers are […]
Labour chancellor Rachel Reeves’s Budget on 27 November re-emphasised the burning need for mass working-class opposition to Labour austerity. That need, increasingly acutely felt, was at the root of the explosion of enthusiasm for Jeremy Corbyn […]
A total of 177 Bangladeshi migrant workers at the Mediceram factory in Negeri Sembilan were summarily dismissed and forcibly sent home after they launched a strike demanding unpaid wages, the promised reimbursement of recruitment fees, […]
Our right to protest is under attack. Recent years have seen a whole number of measures introduced by governments in Britain meant to undermine our democratic right to fight back: the jailing of Just Stop […]
Donald Trump attacked the BBC in November 2025 over a Panorama television documentary that edited his January 6, 2021 speech in a way he claimed was misleading, calling the broadcaster “beyond corrupt” and threatening to […]
The formation of ‘Your Party’ was announced just five months ago. Now, thousands are preparing for its founding conference in Liverpool 29-30 November. The conference is likely to involve around 4,000 attendees, short of the […]
One hundred years ago, in November 1915, the rent strike battle in Glasgow was in full swing. This was an historic event that saw up to 20,000 tenants refusing to pay the increased rent imposed […]
White House clashes with Zelensky and European backers over The war in Ukraine has returned to the top of global headlines following US president Trump’s latest attempt to impose a peace plan on Ukraine president […]
A large proportion of the nearly 1,000 socialists at Socialism 2025 were young workers and students, many attending for the first time. The Socialism 2025 weekend, 15-16 November, in London brought together working-class campaigners, students […]
While the global temperature heats up and our television screens are filled with the natural disasters that come with it, world capitalist leaders have jetted off to Brazil, host of this year’s COP climate change […]
Widespread banditry, terrorism, and social unrest are direct consequences of failure of capitalism and pro-capitalist policies of successive governments For united, non-sectarian, multi-ethnic, multi-religion and democratically run defense committees in communities The Socialist Party of […]
James Connolly, the socialist revolutionary and workers’ leader executed after the 1916 Easter Rising, is widely commemorated across the Republic of Ireland with statues, a major railway station, a military barracks, and streets and other […]
Fifty years ago, on 11 November 1975, the dismissal of Prime Minister Gough Whitlam’s reforming Labor government marked one of the most dramatic political crises in Australian history. For Marxists, this event exposed the limits […]
Today, 7 November, marks the 108th anniversary of the Russian Revolution. It is also known as the ‘October revolution’ because the Bolsheviks seized power in Petrograd on October 25, 1917, according to the Julian calendar […]
The anti-immigrant, Islamophobic and far-right party of Geert Wilders, the Party for Freedom (PVV), suffered a severe blow in Dutch parliamentary elections on the 29th of October, falling back from 37 to 26 seats. Left parties failed […]
The declaration for a new party announced by Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana began with a bang, with 800,000 signing up in support. Since then, of course, public divisions at the top have dampened some […]
“As things stand, there are enough bubbles that are set to burst within a year. When they do burst they will cause significant economic disruption. The fallout won’t lead to a 1929-style crisis, and it […]
Javier Milei, Argentina’s right wing ‘libertarian’ president won the country’s 2025 midterm elections, significantly strengthening his political position and ability to push forward with his reactionary economic policies. Hugo Rodriguez and Pedro Albornoz look at […]
In the new Romania of acute austerity, the government seems overwhelmed by inner division while locked in a conflict with the judiciary. At the same time, important student struggles have taken place, with mixed results. […]
There is growing and widespread dissatisfaction with capitalism worldwide. Economic models that dominated the post-WW2 decades — Keynesian social democracy and later neoliberal globalization — are seen as having run aground. The system today is […]
Catherine Connolly has won the 2025 Irish presidential election in a landslide victory. Her candidacy was supported by left and social democratic parties, the Greens and by Sinn Fein. Connolly secured 63.36% of the vote. […]
Yesterday a judge in Belfast gave a ‘not guilty’ verdict regarding ‘Soldier F’, a former parachute regiment solider who was accused of the murder of two civilians in Derry city, on January 30th 1972, in […]
Character, programme and methods of the new radical left This year has seen France plunged into one of the most serious political and social crises since the founding of the 5th Republic by Charles De […]
With characteristic hypocrisy and cynical opportunism, the far-right have pounced after the alleged sickening sexual assault on a 10-year-old girl in Citywest. A man from the Citywest IPAS centre has been charged with this assault. […]
Keir Starmer’s Labour government is preparing yet more austerity in the Autumn Budget while Reform rises in the polls. But with the recent clashes at the summit of ‘Your Party’ and the published timetable for […]
Protests erupted across the Philippines over billions of dollars’ worth of state corruption in fraudulent flood control projects. On the 21st September, the 53rd anniversary of the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos Sr.’s declaration of martial […]
A week is a long time in politics. The global headlines about Japan having its first woman prime minister, who happened to have played drums in a heavy metal band, to like pork buns, and […]
There is No Solution Without a Struggle for Fundamental, Socialist Change, Including Ending the Occupation, Reconstruction, and Social Justice Below is a guest article by Shahar Ben-Horin, posted on the website of Socialist Struggle Movement, […]
The presidential elections are in full swing in Ireland. Last week, one of the three candidates, Jim Gavin, backed by Fianna Fáil, a governing coalition party, along with Fine Gael, abandoned the race after it […]
Madagascar has been rocked by waves of protests, the largest of their kind on the island in over 15 years. Demonstrations began on 25 September, following the arrest on 19 September of two local politicians […]
The Israeli state’s capture and arrest of aid workers, peace campaigners, workers representatives and parliamentarians on the Global Sumud Flotilla has sparked a general strike across Italy. The flotilla vessels, which were aiming to break […]
Against the background of rising tensions and protests over the issue of asylum seekers being accommodated in hotels, urgent discussion needs to take place in the workers’ movement to put forward a fighting policy of […]
A big step forward for the solidarity movement in Germany On 27 September, around 100,000 people took to the streets in Berlin in solidarity with the people of Gaza. This is the largest protest to […]
After a week of public disagreement between the two left MPs – Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana – who launched the call for ‘Your Party’, the show is back on the road. It is now […]
Since the fall of the Assad regime in December 2024, the HTS (Hai’at Rahrir ash Sham – Committee for the Liberation of the Levant) under Ahmed al-Sharaa, also known as Abu Muhammad al-Jolani, has been […]
On 27 September, the largest mass demonstration to date in Germany calling for solidarity with the people of Gaza and the West Bank and against occupation, displacement and war by the Israeli government could take […]
The Italian working class are beginning to take centre stage in the fight for the end to the brutal genocide inflicted on the people of Gaza by the Israeli state. In the middle of August […]
Nepal has now joined the long list of developing nations revolting against a rotten and corrupt ruling elite. The immediate trigger was the government’s decision to ban 26 social media platforms on Thursday, 4 September. […]
The following statement by Gauche Révolutionnaire (Revolutionary Left- CWI France) is in response to the 18 September strike action by French workers against the budget plans of the government of President Emmanuel Macron. The budget […]
Workers’ movement must urgently respond! The ‘Unite the Kingdom’ march in London on 13 September sounds a warning that the workers’ movement must urgently respond to. Police estimate that 110,000 took to the streets in […]
In March 2020, Ludovic Orban of the National Liberal Party (PNL) hilariously celebrated his anti-worker government reaching the “ripe age of three months”. The next day the government fell. At the beginning of this summer, […]
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