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COP26: Workers in Scotland plan strikes during summit

October 27, 2021 Philip Stott, Socialist Party Scotland (CWI Scotland)

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 […]

Britain: New openings for militant trade unionism

October 26, 2021 Editorial from Socialism Today (Issue 252 October 2021), monthly magazine of the Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)

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 […]

Ireland’s mental health crisis

October 25, 2021 Carah Daniel, Militant Left (CWI Ireland)

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 […]

COP26: Save the planet from capitalist climate catastrophe

October 23, 2021 Akhalya, Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales), Birmingham

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 […]

Chile: Two years on from the ‘October 18th’ mass revolt – the fight continues!

October 21, 2021 Celso Calfullan, Socialismo Revolucionario (CWI Chile)

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 […]

COP26: Trade unions must fight for a socialist transition to renewables

October 21, 2021 Chris Baugh, from The Socialist, weekly paper of the Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)

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 […]

Justice for October 2020 – EndSARS police brutality in Nigeria

October 20, 2021 Text of leaflet issued by Youth Rights Campaign (YRC), Nigeria

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 […]

Is Britain entering a new industrial ‘winter of discontent’?

October 19, 2021 Kevin Parslow, from The Socialist, weekly paper of the Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)

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 […]

Pandora Papers shine light on Nigeria’s “fantastically corrupt” elite

October 18, 2021 HT Soweto, Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI Nigeria)

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 […]

Two years since the ‘October rebellion’ – a balance sheet

October 16, 2021 Pedro Albornos, Socialismo Revolucionario (CWI Chile)

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 […]