Michael Lenin, National Coordinator, Francis Nwapa, National Secretary, Youth Rights Campaign (Nigeria), Author at Socialist World Media

Nigeria: Official inquiry destroys government cover-up of massacre

November 17, 2021 Michael Lenin, National Coordinator, Francis Nwapa, National Secretary, Youth Rights Campaign (Nigeria)

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 local elections mark further decline of ANC

November 16, 2021 Marxist Workers' Party (CWI SA) reporters

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 […]

CHINA | Growth today, crisis tomorrow?

November 15, 2021 Hannah Sell, CWI International Secretariat

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, […]

Capitalism’s COP26 failure: socialist planning needed!

November 10, 2021 Adam Harmsworth, from The Socialist, weekly paper of the Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)

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 […]

Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party loses seats but holds onto power

November 10, 2021 Carl Simmons, Kokusai Rentai (CWI Japan)

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 […]

Union members protested working conditions prior to ‘Rust’ film set shooting

November 9, 2021 Ben Desjarlais, Independent Socialist Group (USA)

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 […]

COP26: Growing support for socialist ideas on Glasgow demos

November 8, 2021 Oisin Duncan, Socialist Party Scotland (CWI)

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 […]

104th anniversary of the Russian Revolution – a world-historic event

November 7, 2021 CWI

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 […]

COP26: Climate talks – decades of capitalist “blah, blah, blah”

November 6, 2021 Ben Robinson, from Socialism Today (Issue 253 November 2021)

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’s government falls – Left must adopt a new course

November 5, 2021 Ross Saunders

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 […]