El 21 de febrero salió a la calle la Argentina entera. En Buenos Aires se concentraron cerca de medio millón de personas; entre ellas muchos trabajadores como los de los ingenios azucareros de Jujuy y […]
En junio, Ciudad del Cabo, con 4 millones de habitantes, podría ser la primera gran ciudad del mundo en quedarse sin suministro de agua corriente. Sus habitantes ya sufren restricciones, no pudiendo consumir más de […]
¡Hay que pararlos con la lucha en las calles! Vivimos una ofensiva contra los derechos democráticos sin precedentes desde el final de la dictadura. Esta escalada, que comenzó con la brutal represión del referéndum del […]
Defender los derechos democráticos y construir una alternativa de Izquierdas frente al lulismo y el PT El 24 de enero, la condena del ex presidente Lula da Silva, vinculada al caso de corrupción “Lava Jato”, […]
After the federal elections held on 24 September 2017, it took almost exactly half a year for the new government to be sworn in. This is completely unprecedented in German post-war history. On top of […]
From mourning to struggle
The Sri Lankan government declared an emergency on 6 March and closed down access to social media following the mob attack on Muslim business and houses in Kandy. The government is claiming that they have […]
Review of ‘The Struggle for Catalonia – Rebel politics in Spain’ by Raphael Minder, Hurst & co publishers, 2017
Last year we saw, with the #MeToo movement, an international revolt against sexism. Women all over the world spoke out against powerful men abusing their social position to force unwilling women to have sex with […]
To round off our series on the struggles of women for a better deal and for socialism, we are drawing attention to two articles on historical struggles by women.
Get. Them. Out. The Tories have got to go. What other response can there be to the Tories’ annihilation of the services needed by women fleeing domestic violence? This equates to murder by political decisions.
We are entering a new age of struggle for women’s liberation! You only have to open a newspaper, log on to social networks, turn on the TV or go out on to the streets to […]
In Sweden, #MeToo has found a widespread echo and has been widely organised sector-by-sector. Actors led the way last year with their petition using the hashtag #tystnadtagning – Swedish for “Lights, cameras, action!” which can […]
India’s leaders have always boasted of the country being characterised by ‘unity in diversity’ and women are supposed to have been worshipped from time immemorial. The dominant Hindutva philosophy is based on the highly controversial […]
International Women’s Day 2018 will be dominated by the issue of abortion on the island of Ireland, with particular focus on the South where years of agitation and mobilisation has succeeded in winning the right […]
Socialist Alternative in the US has published special material for International Women’s Day 2018 in the March edition of its newspaper. This includes a detailed analysis of the mass movements of the ‘60s and ‘70s’ […]
Over the days leading up to March 8th – International Women’s Day – the CWI web-site will be carrying articles from around the world under #IWD. We begin with the International Women’s Day 2018 statement […]
All is not well with capitalism. Economic jitters parallel political volatility. Stock market highs in December turned to mass share sell-offs in February. Colossal personal and governmental debt stalks the system, limiting the capitalists’ room […]
La lucha de los pingüinos (estudiantes secundarios) el año 2006, marco un cambio profundo en la situación política chilena, por primera vez desde la salida de la dictadura se ponía en tela de juicio a […]
Here we publish an article by Celso Calfullan, from Socialismo Revolucionario (CWI in Chile) on the development of the Frente Amplio (FA – Broad Front), a new Left formation which saw an explosive growth in […]
The Chinese dictatorship’s massive infrastructure plan is the spearhead for its whole economic and geopolitical strategy. The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has assumed increasing importance for the regime of China’s ‘strongman’ Xi Jinping.
As we publish this, walkouts have been held in schools across the country in solidarity with students in Parkland, Florida. Hundreds of high school students walked out, marched, and rallied in Florida, Maryland, Arizona, Illinois, […]
Tesco worker and Socialist Party member Amy Murphy has been elected president of the shop workers’ union Usdaw.
Mikhail Gorbachev, the Soviet Union’s last leader, left a truly historical legacy. Aiming to reform bureaucratic rule he helped unleash forces that led to the complete collapse of Stalinism in Russia and eastern Europe. That […]
A few weeks before the 4 March general election, the country is still dominated by a profound economic crisis and serious social consequences. On the political plain, the centre-right coalition of the Lega and Berlusconi’s […]
The sweeping crackdown on dissent in China under Xi Jinping is well known. While most international media reports focus on repression against liberal dissidents it is not unusual for left activists also to be targeted. […]
Limited readmittances, tenants’ ballots, “municipal socialism”
For unity in the struggle against attacks without stopping to build a new Left Socialist alternative
Below is a new introduction for the publication in Spanish of ‘France 1968 – Month of Revolution’ by Clare Doyle. This book describes and analyses the dramatic events of 50 years ago in France. Marxists […]
La ofensiva de las fuerzas reaccionarias domina la coyuntura política. Desde que el pueblo de Catalunya se puso en pie para ejercer su derecho a la autodeterminación y resistir ejemplarmente el asedio represivo del Estado […]
Rebelión en las aulas es el título de la última edición del programa Ochentame de RTVE. Emitido el jueves 1 de febrero, durante una hora retrata con fuerza y rigor las históricas movilizaciones estudiantiles del […]
El poder político y económico debe estar en mano de los trabajadores y el pueblo Derrotas electorales de la derecha y aumento del malestar contra la burocracia Después del triunfo del gobierno en las 2 […]
El Movimiento Socialista Sind (SMS) ha sido atacado recientemente por bandas organizadas. La compañera del SMS, Shabana Marri, fue agredida física y sexualmente camino de su oficina. La policía local y las autoridades, que inicialmente […]
El gobierno y el ejército castigan a las mujeres de la familia Tamimi, y despiertan una oleada de apoyo y solidaridad internacional Hace tres semanas, la noche del 19 de diciembre, la joven de dieciséis […]
En sus últimas previsiones el FMI plantea un crecimiento estable de la economía mundial. Sí hay algunos riesgos, señala el FMI, especialmente los de carácter político, pero la crisis se ha superado y en el […]
La expresión “medio ambiente” fue citada 89 veces por Xi Jinping en su informe al 19° Congreso del Partido “Comunista” Chino, incluso más que la palabra “economía”. Se han enviado equipos de investigación del gobierno […]
Una ola de protestas contra el brutal incremento de los precios y contra las medidas de austeridad impulsadas por el gobierno se ha extendido por Sudán durante el transcurso de las últimas dos semanas. Asustado […]
Mass protests in December and January shook Iran’s reactionary regime to the core. Although facing severe repression, they signal a new confidence and preparedness by workers and young people to fight for their rights, in […]
CWI Sudanese comrade, Mohammed Satti, was released yesterday night, Thursday 2 February. He was detained by the state for over two weeks for his participation in an anti-regime demonstration in the capital, Khartoum. Mohamed was […]
Members and supporters of the CWI across the world are calling for the release of our Sudanese comrade Mohamed Satti as well as of the hundreds of other protesters, political campaigners and journalists who have […]
As widely feared the Chinese dictatorship has begun blocking pro-democracy candidates from standing in upcoming by-elections in Hong Kong to fill four of the seats left empty after the ousting of six opposition legislators last […]
Video of Socialist Party members and Solidarity Irish TD’s Paul Murphy and Mick Barry condemning the Sudanese State’s repression, and demanding the release of CWI supporter Mohamed Satti, along with the hundreds of other political […]
Socialist Movement Sind (SMS) has come under attack recently by organised gangs. SMS member, Shabana Marri, was physically and sexually assaulted on her way to the office. The local police and authorities initially refusing to […]
CWI supporter Mohamed Diaeldin Mohamed Satti, 21, is among the protesters who have been arrested by the Sudanese State last week, as part of the brutal response of Al Bashir’s regime to the ensuing wave […]
A wave of protests against massive price hikes and government austerity measures has engulfed Sudan over the course of the last two weeks. (see Sudan: Protests erupt against government austerity policies). Frightened that these protests […]
A nine-minute video made by the New York Times may cost Tibetan language rights activist Tashi Wangchuk fifteen years in prison. He is the latest victim in an unprecedented crackdown in which hundreds of dissidents […]
Government and army punish the women of the Tamimi family; awake a wave of international solidarity and support.
Demand action to save jobs and services
Ambulances queued upoutside A&Es. Trolleys carrying people in need of care stacked end-to-end in corridors. Long-awaited operations cancelled. Sick people lying on cold, hard floors because no beds are available. The winter NHS crisis has […]
El estallido de las protestas esta semana contra el nuevo Presupuesto de 2018, que supone una batería de medidas contra la clase trabajadora y la clase media, ha vuelto a poner en evidencia a todos […]
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