Niall Mulholland, Committee for a Workers' International, Author at Socialist World Media

Bogside residents defending their barricades against police and loyalist assault

Northern Ireland, August ’69: ‘Battle of the Bogside’ and British troops on the streets

August 14, 2019 Niall Mulholland, Committee for a Workers' International

Fifty years ago this month, troops were deployed on the streets of Derry and Belfast by the British Labour government of Prime Minister Harold Wilson.The capitalist establishment described it at the time as a temporary […]

Kashmir crisis: Attack on democratic rights must be opposed

August 6, 2019 Joint statement from New Socialist Alternative (Indian section of CWI) and CWI supporters in Pakistan.

The ruling BJP (Bharatiya Janata Party) regime in India has once again displayed its contempt and aversion to basic values of democracy. During the past week this regime had been increasing its armed forces to […]

NSSN conference 2019: at the heart of trade union struggle

July 29, 2019 Dave Gorton, Unite the Union LE/372 branch officer (personal capacity)

The hall was again packed for the 2019 annual conference of the National Shop Stewards Network (NSSN), the rank-and-file trade union organisation set up initially by the RMT transport union and its late, and missed, […]

Refounding the Committee for a Workers’ International on the basis of a Trotskyist programme and method

July 25, 2019 CWI

At an historic meeting held in London between July 22nd and 25th over 200 delegates and visitors to an international conference of the International Faction, ‘In Defence of a Working Class Trotskyist CWI’ took the decision to […]

SPN DEMANDS THE IMPLEMENTATION OF N30, 000 MINIMUM WAGE FOR ALL PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SECTOR WORKERS AND WITHOUT RETRENCHMENT

July 23, 2019 Abiodun Bamigboye, Acting National Chairperson. Chinedu Bosah, National Secretary

PRESIDENT BUHARI IS PAYING LIP SERVICE TO N30, 000 MINIMUM WAGE LABOUR SHOULD MOBILISE WORKERS FOR A ONE-DAY WARNING GENERAL STRIKE AND MASS PROTEST SPN DEMANDS THE IMPLEMENTATION OF N30, 000 MINIMUM WAGE FOR ALL […]

Socialist Party conference reaffirms the CWI’s historic approach

July 23, 2019 Socialist Party executive committee

On Sunday 21 July over 200 delegates at a special conference of the Socialist Party (England/Wales) voted overwhelmingly, 173 – 35 with 0 abstentions, to sponsor an international conference to reconstitute the Committee for a […]

50 years since Apollo 11 – ‘One giant leap’: how political conflict launched the moon landing

July 20, 2019 Ian Pattison, Socialist Party national committee

On 20 July 1969, for the first time in history, humans walked on the moon. Since 1972, we haven’t been back. In 1961, US president John F Kennedy promised to put a man on the […]

Taiwan: Pro-CCP media threatens libel case against CWI member

July 16, 2019 International Socialist Forward (CWI in Taiwan)

Libel charges can lead to 2 years imprisonment A leading Taiwan CWI (International Socialist Forward) comrade, Hsu Wei-Yu, is being threatened with libel action by CTi, a large media corporation with links to the Chinese […]

Hong Kong protesters reject Chief Executive’s promises

July 11, 2019 Clare Doyle, CWI

On Tuesday 9 July, Carrie Lam, Hong Kong’s Chief Executive (appointed by Beijing) declared that the controversial extradition bill that has sparked weeks of mass protests is “dead”. Her opponents – now battle-hardened demonstrators who […]

Algeria: Victory to the revolutionary struggle of the Algerian people!

July 6, 2019 Statement by the Gauche Révolutionnaire and El Yassar el Thawri (ليسار الثوري ) (CWI in France and Algeria).

It is now five months since mass protests broke out in Algeria at the prospect of another term as president for the octogenarian Abdelaziz Bouteflika. The movement rapidly gathered momentum, including general strike action and […]