Watch Carmel Gates, General Secretary of NIPSA and a Militant Left (CWI Ireland) supporter, and Padraig Mulholland, Assistant General Secretary of NIPSA and a Militant Left supporter, respond to the recent wave of racist and […]
There is no horizon for security or liberation in an imperialist show of force that deepens a regional bloodbath. Written by Shahar Ben-Horin & Yasha Marmar – a guest article from the Socialist Struggle Movement […]
Yasha Marmer, a guest article from the Socialist Struggle Movement (SSM) in Israel/Palestine originally published on February 28th. ( השקרים של השלטון לא יביאו ביטחון || לעצור את ההפצצות באיראן ואת מרחץ הדמים האזורי! • […]
Once again peoples in the Middle East face the horrors of another war with its human casualties and physical destruction. Already there are reports of 85 people, mainly school students, being killed in a […]
On September 24, a significant protest was organised in Pune by Shramik Hakk Andolan, a registered labour union associated with New Socialist Alternative, to highlight the persistent and unresolved problems faced by construction workers. The […]
It has been more than a year since the current government, led by Anura Kumara Dissanayake, came to power. Since the National People’s Power (NPP) government took office, there has been ongoing debate about its […]
Economic protests turned into a struggle against oppression and for security What many young Kenyans saw as the third political revolution in Kenya against a ruling class whose trail of blood and corruption has been […]
On the fifty-second anniversary of General Augusto Pinochet’s coup in Chile socialistwprld.net is reposting a 2013 article by Tony Saunois, CWI Secretary, examining those events. Tony’s 2023 book, Chile – How and Why the Revolution […]
On Monday, 8 September, the new school year began in Romania. Teachers boycotted the usual opening ceremonies and took to the streets instead, protesting new austerity measures being introduced by the government. Up to 10,000 […]
The arrest of Ranil Wickremesinghe, the former Sri Lankan president, even on what some might dismiss as a minor charge, is not a “victory” in itself but a political warning. For decades, the ruling class […]
Two union educators at MassArt (Boston, US) are under threat of being fired for participating in a peaceful protest in support of divestment from weapons and an end to the genocide. Demand that MassArt immediately […]
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) reported that at least four journalists and media workers have been killed in Iran since the start of the Israeli offensive Guest article by Ariel Gottlieb, member of the […]
The United Socialist Party (USP), the Sri Lankan section of the Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI), is contesting in the upcoming September 21st presidential election in Sri Lanka. Siritunga Jeyasuriya is running to highlight […]
The revolutionary mass movement in Bangladesh is at a critical juncture. A 17-member interim government has been established, including in it a few young leaders who emerged from the mass protests which toppled the government. […]
Scottish revolutionary socialist John Maclean died a hundred years ago on 30 November 1923. As part of our occasional working-class history series, Brian McLelland of Socialist Party Scotland looks back at the events of Red […]
The multiple problems facing China’s state capitalist economy have grown significantly during 2023. The western capitalist press is full of often self-serving analysis predicting the end of the ‘Chinese miracle’. In addition, ratcheting tensions […]
“We understand better now how little we understand about inflation,”[i] commented Jerome Powell, Chair of the US Federal Reserve (the Fed), when inflation reached its highest level since the late 1970s in 2022. At the […]
The new lease of life that world capitalism experienced after the collapse of the Stalinist states of Russia and Eastern Europe from the late 1980s has definitively run its course. Whatever the immediate perspectives are […]
21 August marks the anniversary of the death, in 1940, of the revolutionary socialist Leon Trotsky after being attacked the previous day by a Stalinist agent. Along with Lenin, Trotsky was the foremost leader of the […]
A remembrance event for the July 1983 pogroms, which was organized in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on Sunday, July 23, was attacked and forcibly stopped by the police. The 1983 pogrom against Tamils is regarded as […]
Part 3 * A weakness of the Galle Face declaration is its calls for the existing parliament to reform itself by changing the way it operates, abolition of the presidency, and possibly enacting a few […]
Part 2 The current regime lacks any viable economic solution other than perpetuating further suffering among the broader population. Their economic survival hinges on the continuation of this brutal suffering for the masses, who are […]
It has been a year since the mass movement erupted in July 2022. The movement now faces a number of questions that need to be addressed. The development of future struggles and their victory depends […]
On April 13, a hearing will be held by the Federal Court of Criminal Appeals, which must validate, or not, the sentences against the compañeros César Arakaki and Daniel Ruiz – sentenced to three years […]
The Sunday night sacking of Israeli defence minister Yoav Gallant by Netanyahu unleashed a spontaneous eruption of protests. 600,000 poured onto the streets, blocking highways with burning barricades. In Jerusalem, protesters broke through the barriers […]
The following document was presented to and agreed by the International Executive Committee of the CWI, which held a meeting from 23-27 January 2023. Introduction. Not Like Other Crises. Tsunami of a Debt Crises. Amazon […]
It is a hundred years since the establishment of the Union of Soviet Republics of Europe and Asia – later known as the USSR – at the end of 1922. The first signatories represented the […]
Kazakhstan’s president, Kassym-Jomart Tokaev, has brought forward the holding of the presidential election due in December 2024 to November 20th this year and extended the length of the term of office to seven years. This […]
Communist Party led Graz council must fend off attacks with mobilisations for more finance – No to cuts! CP-Graz must not implement open or hidden cuts! Vacant posts must be refilled – no staff cuts! […]
Working class striking back, capitalist crisis and the case for socialism Rally for Socialism Saturday 19 November 5.30-7.30 pm (UK time) Watch the live broadcast here: www.youtube.com/video/u6ssbFZXc2k/ The rally is part of the ‘Socialism […]
On 10 November the first national strike against the ANC-government’s assault on public sector pay took place. The Public Service Association (PSA), representing 230,000 of South Africa’s 1.2 million public sector workers, downed tools for […]
Although the final tally of the US midterm elections will not be finalised until December, it is clear that the expected ‘red wave’ Republican victory failed to materialise and was more of a ripple. It […]
Protests were held across Sri Lanka and internationally on 9 November demanding fundamental democratic rights, such as the right to protest, the right to assembly, freedom of speech and the release of all protesters, including […]
For a 48-hour general strike, as the next step towards overthrowing the regime! 26 October saw the end of the 40-day mourning period after Jina (Mahsa) Amini’s death with protests taking place in 30 Iranian […]
The Movement for Peoples Councils (MPC) in Sri Lanka, together with IUSF (Inter University Student Federation), is appealing to the workers, students and youth, internationally, to support the struggle in Sri Lanka. As a first step, […]
The following is the editorial of ‘The socialist’ Weekly paper of the Socialist Party in England and Wales. This was Published on Monday 17 October before the resignations of home secretary Suella Braverman and prime […]
The following statement was circulated by the United Socialist Party (CWI in Sri Lanka) to socialist parties and groups in Sri Lanka from 12th August. Socialistworld.net An open appeal to socialist organisations Building for a […]
An international rally hosted by the Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI) and the Socialist Party Hear from socialists across the world – from the US to Sri Lanka, South Africa to Nigeria, and Chile […]
Tens of thousands gathered in Sri Lanka again today to make sure that President Gotabaya Rajapaksa finally resigned and was gone. With the help of the military, the president was reported to have fled the […]
A historical day was marked on 9 July in Sri Lanka, when the masses decisively entered the pages of history. People from all around the country descended on the capital city Colombo to register their […]
Organise to get them all out All strike together for a pay rise Build a new mass workers’ party Join the socialists On the morning of Friday 13 December 2019, as the country awoke to […]
There is an ongoing political, economic and social crisis in Turkey. The pandemic has acted as a great accelerator, speeding up the processes that already existed. It has certainly made the situation far more difficult […]
Deepening crisis Sri Lanka came to a halt early this month as the government announced that it does not have enough fuel or any money available for imports. All private vehicles are banned and schools […]
The US Supreme Court has overturned the 1973 Roe v Wade ruling which recognised a constitutional right to abortion. This represents the biggest attack on women’s rights in the US for the last 50 years […]
July 5 is the sixtieth anniversary of Algeria’s Independence Day in 1962 which marked the end of the eight-year war of independence. CLARE DOYLE looks back at a seminal struggle in the post-1945 movement against […]
HANNAH SELL reviews one of the numerous recent books looking at the events in Washington DC on 6 January 2021 and their aftermath, examining the crisis in both the Republican and Democrat parties and the […]
This year’s National Shop Stewards Network (NSSN) conference takes place at a crucial stage, as Boris Johnson’s Tory government reels from one crisis to another. The RMT rail strike has acted as a lightning rod, […]
“A nation that is well endowed with human and material resources but perpetually held down in a state of coma is an absurdity that cannot be rationally justified unless you believe in the irrationality of […]
Which direction Sri Lanka will take in the coming period? Will the establishment move towards consolidating its position, which was jolted by recent mass uprisings led by the youth? Or will the mass youth movement […]
The results of the legislative elections were a major blow for Macron. His electoral alliance, named “Ensemble” [Together] in a final panic before the shipwreck, only obtained 245 deputies, compared with 360 in 2017. This […]
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