From Socialism Today, No. 277 (May 2024) The signing of the North Atlantic Treaty, between the US, Canada and Western European powers in April 1949, can only be understood as one more brick being laid […]
For most of April Iran and Israel appeared to be teetering on the brink of an all-out war, which could have engulfed the whole of the Middle East in flames. The month opened with Israeli […]
A printable version of this article can be downloaded in English here and in French here. The elections in Senegal on 24 March have transformed the entire situation. With Macky Sall ejected from power […]
International Workers Day is a socialist holiday started by US unions during the struggle for the eight-hour workday in the late 1800s. It was adopted by the newly founded socialist Second International in 1889 as […]
The Committee for a Workers International offers revolutionary greetings and extends the hand of solidarity to the millions and billions of workers and young people worldwide this May Day. Over the past year the best […]
Refugee camps, mass graves, summary executions and unpredictable military encounters. This is not Gaza or the Ukraine. It is the United States in a few years’ time in Alex Garland’s latest devastating film, Civil War. […]
Below is the text of a leaflet being distributed on US campuses by the Independent Socialist Group (ISG – that stands in political solidarity with the CWI). Drop All Charges Against Protestors! On 27 April, […]
The Democratic Republic of the Congo, in Central Africa, is the stage of an ongoing armed conflict between state forces and the March 23 Movement (M23) guerrilla army, backed by the neighbouring state of Rwanda. […]
We need a New Workers’ Party The less than 3-year-old power-sharing agreement between the SNP and Scottish Greens has collapsed. What has become a bitter fall out is rooted in falling support in working-class communities […]
The following article, written twenty years ago by Manny Thain for the 30th anniversary of the revolution, looks back on the lessons to be drawn from this turbulent period of Portuguese history. In addition to […]
The following resolution was adopted by the National Conference of Gauche Révolutionnaire (CWI in France) over the weekend of 23-24 March 2024. Since the end of the Covid-19 crisis, the capitalist world economy has not […]
We publish below a greeting sent to the CWI from Carlos Moya, a veteran leader of the Chilean Socialist Party who remained in Chile following the coup in 1973 and was, for a period, the […]
Ghaith Abdul-Ahad, born in Iraq in the 1970s, began writing for the London Guardian and the Washington Post after the US led invasion in 2003. A Stranger in Your Own City starkly, and often beautifully, […]
From the very beginning of spring this year, a catastrophic tragedy has been unfolding in Kazakhstan – whole villages and cities are being devastated by floods. Tens of thousands of houses have been literally submerged […]
A Socialist World is Possible – the History of the CWI, by Peter Taaffe, was originally published in 2004 on the thirtieth anniversary of the founding of the Committee for a Workers’ International to celebrate […]
Clare Doyle attended the founding conference of the CWI in 1974 and has played a key role in its development throughout its fifty years of existence, serving on the CWI’s leading body, the International Secretariat, […]
Over the weekend of 20-21 April 1974, a small but crucial international meeting took place in a room at the Old Mother Redcap pub in Camden, London. This meeting decided to launch a new revolutionary […]
The protracted crisis of global capitalism which is developing at an increasing speed and tempo accompanies an unprecedented crisis in leadership and, partially, the organisation of the working class. The absence of mass revolutionary parties […]
The following document was discussed and adopted by the Socialist Party Scotland congress in March 2024. International backdrop The tumultuous and increasingly overwhelming crises facing the global capitalist system is the backdrop to any […]
Employers’ responses to union demands in the annual spring labour offensive (Shunto) have inspired newspaper headlines announcing “the biggest wage increases in 30 years”. The Rengo, the largest Japanese trade union federation, announced on March […]
The horrific terror attacks on the outskirts of Moscow on 22 March shocked and repulsed Russians and people everywhere. At the time of writing, the death toll is officially 139 and rising. Over 180 people […]
The Communist Women’s Movement inspired tens of thousands of women following the Russian revolution. CHRISTINE THOMAS looks at the latest volume in an ongoing series regarding the Communist International that pulls together previously unpublished material […]
The following resolution was adopted by the Federal Conference of Sozialistische Organisation Solidarität (Sol, CWI in Germany) on the 9 December 2023. World & Europe What the CWI formulated at the beginning of this year […]
If the development of a society can be judged by the extent to which women are involved in it, that is certainly the case with a revolution. In 1871, women – especially women workers – […]
We have recently seen significant victories for women internationally, such as the mass movements in Latin America, which forced governments to legalise or relax restrictions on abortion. The French parliament has voted overwhelmingly to enshrine […]
International Women’s Day 2024, 8 March, takes place in a world in turmoil. Since January, the conflict in the Middle East and horrifying onslaught on Gaza have intensified. The war in Ukraine is also showing […]
Interview with Weizmann Hamilton On January 11 and 12, 2024, the United Nation’s International Court of Justice (ICJ) heard the South African government’s case accusing Israel of carrying out “genocidal acts” in Gaza. On 26 […]
What do the mass demonstrations against the AfD mean and how can the movement continue? An impressive wave of protests has developed in recent weeks against the strengthening of the AfD (see here). However, in […]
A printable version of this article can be downloaded here. The Israeli army is laying waste to Gaza. Whole communities are being destroyed and entire families wiped-out. The scale of displacement, as people are forced […]
Internationally 2023 saw unimaginable horror being suffered by Palestinians in Gaza, the continuation of the grinding Ukraine war with hundreds of thousands of casualties, and a COP28 conference that failed to agree any proposals that […]
Late on Monday, 13 November, Nigeria’s two trade union federations, the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC), called for an indefinite general strike to start the next day as no agreement […]
For workers’ unity and struggle against national conflict and oppression The images from Israel and the Gaza Strip are horrific. Many hundreds of civilians are dead on both sides. The unprecedented attacks by Hamas inside […]
“I have lived through two civil wars and a revolution. I work in a hospital, I see people die from the armed conflicts but nothing like this. This is overwhelming.” This is how one doctor […]
A year ago, Jina (Mahsa) Amini, then a 22-year-old Kurdish woman, died in the custody of the then recently re-activated so-called “morality police”. Her murder triggered a revolutionary process, initially led by brave youth and […]
The Independent Socialist Group (ISG) interviewed Hugo Rodríguez, a member of Socialismo Revolucionario (then Workers Democracy), the Chilean section of the Committee for a Workers International (CWI), with which ISG stands in political solidarity. Hugo […]
September marks the 50th anniversary of the 1973 coup in Chile led by General Pinochet, which overthrew the democratically elected left-wing government of Salvador Allende, and ushered in 17 years of brutal military dictatorship. On […]
The article below appeared in Militant, issue no. 169, published on 17 August 1973, one month before Pinochet’s coup. Militant was the newspaper of the Militant Tendency, forerunner of the Socialist Party, the CWI in […]
Fifty years since it was crushed, the Chilean revolution of 1970-73 remains a reference point, not only in Chile, but internationally, for both the working class and its organisations and the capitalist classes. In Chile, […]
A general election is due in South Africa in 2024. It will be the seventh since the hated apartheid system of racial oppression and segregation was dismantled. Across South African society it is viewed as […]
Rich in lessons for today One of the most important and tragic events in the history of Iraq took place on 8 February, 1963. The left-wing government led by Abd al-Karim Qasim was overthrown in […]
The extremely right-wing Modi-led BJP government has completed nine years in power, with elections scheduled next year. At this juncture, when we draw political perspectives, we need to assess the processes that have been unfolding […]
The latest indictment of Donald Trump, his fourth criminal case this year, marks another new stage in the dysfunctional, chaotic, fractured current-day USA. “America is history’s most successful failing state”, the Financial Times put it […]
The appalling actions of the president of Spain’s football body, Louis Rubiales, after the team won the women’s football World Cup, have highlighted aspects of women’s oppression. It was not a kiss. Rubiales sexually assaulted […]
No to all looters, civilian or military Working people need to build a movement for democratic rights and socialist change “In the name of the Gabonese people” the military coup leaders on August 30, […]
Protesters in Lagos and London have demanded that the persecution and political harassment of Seun Kuti ends immediately. Kuti is a famous musician, son of legendary musician Fela Kuti, and chairperson of the Nigerian Movement […]
Prepare for a workers’ stand in the general election People want ‘Tories out’. That is the bleedingly obvious lesson from the 4 May local election results. The Tories (i.e. the ruling Conservative Party) set their […]
Trade Unions’ Federation Must Provide Platform for United Actions against IMF’s Dictated Attacks and High Cost of Living. Ghana is in a serious debt crisis. The country defaulted on its external debts in December 2022 […]
With sustained strike action more would be possible! 500,000 workers took part in massive warning strikes. The turnout was higher than expected. 70,000 new members joined the ver.di trade union in the first three months […]
Editorial of the Socialist (issue 1225), paper of the Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales) “Lose trust in democracy and democracy dies. Lose trust in capitalism and it fails too.” This was the warning given […]
The ongoing tensions between the United States and China have continued to escalate as the global economic crisis deepens. While the US economy is still the most powerful in the world, its dominance is being […]
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