Declaration from the CWI in solidarity with the Peruvian workers (in English and Spanish), Author at

Declaration from the CWI in solidarity with the Peruvian workers

December 15, 2022 Declaration from the CWI in solidarity with the Peruvian workers (in English and Spanish)

Massive protests are developing by workers and the poor in Peru against the newly installed government of Dina Boluarte, which has postponed the calling of early elections and introduced a state of emergency. Boluarte’s government […]

Britain: An industrial ‘winter of discontent’ – Build for a 24-hour general strike!

December 15, 2022 Editorial from The Socialist, weekly paper of the Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)

“The history of this time will ask: ‘Where were you in 22?’” To cheers from striking UCU members in higher education and Royal Mail workers from CWU, RMT General Secretary Mick Lynch called out Starmer […]

Thousands of health workers strike in Northern Ireland over pay and conditions

December 14, 2022 Militant Left (CWI Ireland) leaflet text

Thousands of members of the trade unions, Nipsa, Unison and the GMB, working in the NHS in Northern Ireland, took strike action on Monday 12 December over pay and conditions. Northern Ireland has the longest […]

Scotland: The social and the national struggle

December 13, 2022 Philip Stott, first published in Socialism Today, monthly journal of the Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)

Faced with the UK Supreme Court ruling against a referendum organised by the Scottish parliament, and a new round of ‘eye-watering’ austerity unresisted by the Scottish National Party and Green Party government in Holyrood, the […]

Peru’s President Castillo arrested – political crisis deepens

December 12, 2022 Tony Saunois, CWI

Peru was thrust into a deeper political and social crisis following the arrest of the former President, Pedro Castillo, and the vote by the Congress to remove him from office. This followed Castillo declaring his […]

Rail bosses conspire to crush RMT – the fight goes on!

December 12, 2022 Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales) members in RMT

On Sunday 4 December, the British rail union RMT was presented with a set of proposals from the Rail Delivery Group of private employers, supposedly to enable progress towards a settlement of our long-running dispute over […]

Review: ‘Russia 1985-1999, TraumaZone’

December 11, 2022 Clare Doyle

In a seven-part production for BBC TV, ‘TraumaZone’, Adam Curtis has delved into the predominantly unseen work of hundreds of BBC film crews carried out over 35 years across what was the USSR. In an […]

Britain: Mass coordinated action can win – prepare for a 24-hour general strike!

December 10, 2022 Editorial from The Socialist, weekly paper of the Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)

‘Timetable of trouble: the wave of strikes set to hit the Tories this winter…’Could Britain be facing a general strike this winter?’ Just two of the headlines in the Guardian newspaper (London) last week that […]

Governing Norwegian Labour Party declines sharply in polls, as workers and poor face cost of living crisis

December 8, 2022 Robin Nilsen, CWI Norway

The ruling Norwegian Labour Party (Arbeider Parti) received 15.4 per cent support in a November 2022 Gallup poll. The AP seems paralyzed, unable or unwilling to help workers, students, and the poor. They are leaving […]

Iranian regime increases repression – step up international solidarity with the street protests and strikes!

December 7, 2022 Lukas Zöbelein, Sozialistische Organisation Solidarität (CWI Germany)

The revolutionary youth movement in Iran has been going on for well over two months. In these 11 weeks, more than 18,000 people have been arrested and more than 400 murdered by the regime. Now […]