Articles by Frank Merritt, CWI

Background    The housing crisis in Spain and in particular the image of Maricarmen Abascal, an 87 year old woman, being evicted from her flat on a stretcher following a 400% increase in her rent […]

“I pledge to the greatest president in the history of the United States that loves us so much he can’t even breathe, that I will go out with my family, my friends. I’ll do it […]

On Sunday, 25 October, the CWI organised an online rally at short notice, with over 160 participants, given the explosive events taking place globally. As has been reported on socialistworld.net over the past weeks mass […]

The death of Cambridge professor Jason Arday is a horrible personal tragedy for him and all his family, the cruel outcome of a cruel system. Whether or not he plagiarised some of his work, or […]

It has been more   than a month since the Tamil Nadu election results were declared. The massive electoral wave swept aside both the DMK, AIADMK and brought the newly formed TVK to power.  The results […]

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 […]

Workers won’t go back to the past Stop the Right-Wing Attack on Civil Rights On June 24th the Supreme Court in the US overturned the precedent set by Roe v. Wade that protected the legal […]

Segun Sango (7 May 1958 – 23 May 2022) – founding member and General Secretary of the Democratic Socialist Movement, the CWI in Nigeria Many of the obituaries for and reminiscences of Segun Sango have […]

During the Covid crisis the combined wealth of the billionaires in the UK rose 21.7% to £597 billion. Yet the Tory government and capitalist media complain about workers on the railways fighting for an increase […]

On 2 May, a draft opinion from the Supreme Court case Dobbs v Jackson was leaked, suggesting that the ruling in this case will overturn the precedent set by Roe v. Wade. If this happens, […]

The Sri Lankan government’s attempt to defeat the movement against it has provoked a ferocious reaction from protesters. Just days before, on 6 May, trade unions organised the most successful Hartal (a general stoppage of […]

Some Pictures from of Hartal Day On Friday 6th of May, 2022, the sun rose on the island nation Sri Lanka just as on any other day. But it was not an ordinary day. Hundreds […]

The Russian invasion of Ukraine has caused a rapid spike in the Finnish public’s support for joining NATO. Finland’s right-wing political parties are using the opportunity to rush the country into the military pact; Finland’s […]

May Day, historically the day on which the workers’ movement marks its internationalism and commitment to socialism, takes place this year with the world in turmoil: living standards falling in nearly all countries around the […]

Tens of thousands of workers all over the country came out on strike on Thursday 28 April. They are demanding the resignation of the country’s corrupt president and his family-led government. They have created the […]

A month has passed since the installation of the new government in Chile and the new President, Gabriel Boric. Yet the political, economic and social instability continue to be the main characteristic of the current […]

Emmanuel Macron has won the presidential election against Marine Le Pen. The capitalists’ plans worked, just, forcing a replay of the 2017 second round. Incredibly, Macron was able to win again despite the vicious policies […]

As we write protests continue to take place across Sri Lanka the day after protesters defied one of the strongest-ever curfews in place and gathered in many parts of the capital city and across the […]

Part of the background to the war in Ukraine has been the decades-long eastward creep in Europe of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (Nato) – the US-led western military alliance. Indeed, Putin has attempted to […]

There are protests in solidarity with the Kazakhstan movement taking place in several countries. We will be publishing details of these protests and will carry further details and analysis about the situation in Kazakhstan. Below […]

Kazakhstan has been disconnected from the internet. Activists across the country are generally unable to communicate. All cities and towns are being cut off from information. Occasionally connections are re-established. Demonstrations are taking place across […]

An explosion of anger has spread across Kazakhstan in the first days of January 2022. The spark was a doubling of the price of Liquefied Petroleum Gas – the most common fuel used in the […]

The Indian government had been slowly privatising all the state banks in recent years. While canceling the debt of the super rich and changing various laws and regulations to aid the private banking system the […]

    England & Wales Germany Date 19, 20, 21 November 2021 27, 28 November 2021 Tickets and info www.socialism2021.net www.Sozialismustage.be Hosted by Socialist Party Sozialistische Organisation Solidaritaet   This will be the biggest in-person […]

While the US, British and other western governments lick their wounds following their ignoble retreat from Afghanistan, after 20 failed years of ‘nation building’, another ‘failed state’, Libya, marks ten years since the West helped […]

As support for Bolsonaro in Brazil has rapidly declined and he faces the prospect of defeat in elections scheduled for 2022, Tony Saunois reviews ‘Securing Democracy –my fight for press Freedom and Justice in Bolsonaro’s […]

On the twentieth anniversary of the attack on the World Trade Centre in New York which took place on 11th September 2001 capitalist commentators are revisiting these historic events. The anniversary comes as US and […]

On 11 September 2001 the infamous 9/11 al-Qaeda terrorist attacks on US soil prompted the then US president George W Bush and British PM Tony Blair to instigate a Western military invasion and occupation of […]

Opinion polls in the last weeks before the September 26 German general election have shown rapid changes, especially for the two main contenders – the conservative christian democrat CDU/CSU bloc and the Social Democratic Party […]

NIALL MULHOLLAND reviews a new book that seeks to record what Protestants in Northern Ireland are thinking in these unsettled times. Northern Protestants: On Shifting Ground By Susan McKay The Blackstaff Press, 2021, £16.99   […]

Why would a UK trade union not support a struggle against low pay and excessive workload by trade unionists in another country? In a meeting of Unison’s national executive council on 14 July, hands were […]

CHRISTINE THOMAS reviews a recent book by FT journalist Philip Stephens charting the post-war demise of British capitalism – and the despair of the class he represents at its prospects post-Brexit, in a crisis-ridden international […]

Mining profits are booming. June saw the biggest trade surplus on record. The banks are paying dividends to shareholders again and StatsSA reports that the economy is 11% larger than thought. But unemployment has reached […]

On 14 August, the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), led by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, celebrated its 20th anniversary against a background of environmental, economic and political crisis. The wildfires that spread across […]

Sharon Graham has won the Unite general secretary election. Her success is being celebrated by many members who saw her left candidature as the most likely to build and organise the union industrially as workers […]

The current severe Covid restrictions have inevitably had an impact on the ongoing protests of teachers and students. However the anger against the government has continued to increase. Many students’ and teachers’ leaders are still […]

An unprecedented heatwave in Canada and the US Pacific north west has left hundreds dead and caused destructive wildfires. Extreme weather events like this are consistent with global heating producing climate change. However, ‘big energy’, […]

Labour managed to narrowly hold onto to Batley and Spen in the parliamentary by-election on 1 July, scraping in by 323 votes. The Labour leadership is sighing with relief. In reality, however, this result is […]

The Committee for a Workers’ International has received from a group of left activists in Kazakhstan known as ‘Red Yurt’ the following account of a vicious attack on a demonstration in Almaty and an appeal […]

Over the last year it seems as if just when all possible descriptions have been exhausted for the deteriorating social, economic and political crisis in Lebanon, a new downward turn in the situation develops. The […]

Almost immediately after last month’s Iranian presidential election, a national strike began in the country’s strategically important oil, gas and petrochemical sector and is still continuing. Organised from below through unofficial bodies, this strike has […]

In unprecedented scenes, reminiscent of events in Latin America, Asia or Africa, US capitalism plunged into a deeper crisis yesterday as thousands of Trump supporters stormed the Congress on Capitol Hill urged on by their […]

The following article is an edited transcript of the speech by Mark Best in a workshop at the Socialism 2020 event organised online by the Socialist Party from 20-23 November (see ‘Socialism 2020: Growing search […]

Book Review: A revolutionary whose ideas couldn’t be killed. Trotsky’s ideas live on in the CWI Eighty years after his assassination, the Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI) has published a collection of ten essays […]

In the US, and around the world, millions greeted Trump’s defeat in the US elections. His probable removal from office, notwithstanding his legal claims, will be widely welcomed. Clearly there will be changes within the […]

PART 2 India is among the countries with the highest level of inequality. According to an Oxfam report, the top 10% of the Indian population holds 77% of the total national wealth. Oxfam also points […]

In India the corona crisis has cast a harsh light on the cruel reality of capitalism in the country. For millions starvation is now a real threat. The ‘great revealer’ has exposed the rottenness not […]

Our previous article on the Vienna elections was posted just before the murderous 2 November attack on hospitality workers and people out for the evening in Vienna. There can be no justification for this attack, […]

Anger at replacement of hated SARS police unit by Special Weapons and Tactics (Swat) units A renewed tidal wave of anger swept Nigeria after the police chief, Mohammed Adamu, announced that the now disbanded brutal, […]

The Committee for a workers’ international will host a live discussion with Howie Hawkins and Angela Walker (Green presidential and Vice Presidential candidates) this Sunday 27 September 3pm (BST time). This live event will hear […]

On August 23rd Jacob Blake was shot in the back seven times by police in Wisconsin. The shooting has left him paralyzed. Why was Blake shot? Because he was walking away from a fight he […]

On 21 August 1940, the revolutionary socialist Leon Trotsky died after being attacked by a Stalinist agent the previous day. Along with Lenin, Trotsky was the foremost leader of the October 1917 socialist revolution in […]

The Rajapaksa family has consolidated more power following the election in Sri Lanka which concluded on 5 August. Despite the coronavirus crisis, and restrictions on social mobility, around a 70% voter turnout was registered. Overall […]

Small steps back by the regime is combined with continued repression Events are beginning to speed up in Iran again as protests increase. A brief attempt to intimidate the thousands of Haft Tappeh sugar cane […]

‘And so today, I am announcing the suspension of active campaigning and congratulate Joe Biden, a very decent man, on his victory’. Bernie Sanders (April 8, 2020) The Bernie Sanders campaign for the Democratic Party […]

Twenty-five years ago, in July 1995, 8,000 Bosnian Muslim refugees were slaughtered in and around the Bosnian town of Srebrenica – one of the final atrocities in the 1992-95 Bosnian war. The designation of Srebrenica […]

On July 1 the vote for amendments to the Constitution of Russia ended. The real goal of voting was to extend Putin’s rule until 2036 and give the illusion of widespread support of the population. […]

Press release for immediate use 24/3/20 Protest against Facebook censorship The Socialist Party supports all measures necessary to protect all people from the threat of Coronavirus. Yet this must be done on a fully democratic […]

Statement from International Secretariat of the CWI 23 March 2020 The outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic has plunged world capitalism and society into an entirely new era of turmoil and upheaval. In country after country, […]

The following ‘workers’ charter’ to deal with the coronavirus crisis and workplace related issues, is produced by Socialist Party (England & Wales section of the CWI). The charter outlines a fighting programme for the current […]

A series of discussions with members of the International Secretariat (IS) of the CWI and the membership of the Independent Socialist Group (ISG) in the US has resulted in a unanimous vote of the ISG […]

Written on 09/03/2020 for The Socialist – Weekly paper of the Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales). Sanders faces uphill struggle to win Democratic Party nomination. Working class must have an independent political voice. The […]

Featured article from February 2020 Socialism Today (Monthly journal of the Socialist PArty- CWI England & Wales. The relationship between fighting women’s oppression, identity politics, and the struggle for socialism is a feature of many […]

Drop Trumped-up Charges, Recall Sacked Workers and End Slave Conditions in Sumal Foods   Abiodun Bamigboye (Abbey Trotsky), the acting National Chairperson of the Socialist Party of Nigeria (SPN), is again due in court on […]

Yemen, bordered by Saudi Arabia and Oman, is the poorest of countries in the Arab world and has been ravaged by a continuing bloody civil war. Conditions are barbaric, leading Unicef to report: “No place […]

After dramatic election defeats last September in two East German federal state elections the leadership of Germany’s left party DIE LINKE opened a strategy debate in the run-up to a ‘Strategy Conference’ at the end […]

On Monday, 24 February, the prime minister of Malaysia, Mahathir Mohamad, submitted his resignation to the country’s king, opening the way for enormous confusion as to what will follow. The reasons for Mahathir’s decision seemed […]

Download the full thesis here. Part 1 The explosive mass movements which have rocked Latin America, Haiti, Iraq, Lebanon, Iran and some other countries have opened a new chapter in the struggle against capitalism. These […]

The Labour Campaign for Trans Rights (LCTR) has intervened in the party’s leadership contest, calling on candidates to back its 12-point pledge. Rebecca Long-Bailey and Lisa Nandy have done so. The oppression trans people suffer […]

World-wide the number of dead and infected from the Coronavirus appears to have reached a peak. But fears persist that large numbers could still die because of the impossibility of knowing before the symptoms develop […]

  The Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP) is the South African ANC government’s slave-labour scheme. Workers are paid as little as R2,000 per month, for full-time work. The minimum wage in South Africa is R3,500. […]

This year’s planned general strike on January 8th was massive. It broke all previous records in the numbers involved in a united class action in India. The strike was called by ten major trade union […]

[The] new government means “combination of fiscal restraint and tax cuts with environmental schemes and hard-line immigration policies” (Financial Times) Early January in Austria saw the Greens and the conservative People’s Party (ÖVP) agree to […]

Build a socialist movement that can offer an alternative to the rich elite, poverty and capitalism! A wave of anger at what is seen as the regime’s lying and incompetence after the tragic downing of […]

Shockwaves went around the world, and outrage spread in the Middle East, as news broke of Trump’s unilateral decision to assassinate Qassem Suleimani, commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards’ Quds Force and a key Iranian […]

In the past ten days, since the Citizens Amendment Act (CAA) was rushed through the Indian Parliament, there has been a massive eruption of anger and dismay. The agitation and mass protests across India are […]

In the Sri Lanka presidential election held on 16 November 2019, Gotabaya Rajapaksa (GR) was able to defeat his rival Sajith Premadasa by 1,360,011 votes. Gotabaya mustered 6,924,255 votes and Sajith obtained only 5,594,239 votes. […]

The extremely polarised presidential election in Sri Lanka has resulted in victory for Gotabaya c. As Defence Minister under the dictatorial president, his brother, Mahinda Rajapaksa, Gotabaya ordered the bloody genocide at the end of […]

Labour activity in Finland is escalating as unions enter into months of negotiations with employers nationwide. The Social Democratic-led “left” government of Antti Rinne has proven to be interested in supporting workers in name only. […]

A right-wing, US-backed attempt to overthrow the Movement for Socialism (MAS) government in Bolivia, and to replace it with a vicious anti-working class regime, is underway. Evo Morales, South America’s first indigenous national president, resigned […]

Freedom for Chilean soldier David Veloso. On October 18, the Chilean people began a generalized social uprising, triggered by a rise in passenger transportation in Santiago de Chile and violent repression of secondary students demonstrating […]

The Sri Lankan presidential election, scheduled for 16 November, is taking place at a time when the country is going through a major political and economic crisis. The government is proving it has no solutions […]

For a mass working class party for workers, young people, poor farmers and the oppressed. Indonesia’s president, Joko Widodo, was inaugurated for a second term on Sunday, 20 October, but he has been facing a […]

The repression of the Chilean workers and youth must stop For a general strike and an end to the State of Emergency The Military General Javier Iturriaga, who is in charge of the State of […]

Translation of Declaration by Socialism Revolucionario (CWI Chile) -18/10/2019 The social explosion that has erupted in Chile today was inevitable. It represents the accumulation of too many years of abuse of miserably low salaries which […]

On the surface little seems to have changed as a result of the election to Portugal’s Legislative Assembly on the 6th October. But, beneath the surface, processes are developing which are likely in the next […]

A mass uprising including a general strike, protests of hundreds of thousands and the storming of the National Assembly has rocked Ecuador. It has forced the government of Lenin Moreno to flee the capital, Quito, […]

The Indian economy is heading for a recession. GDP growth has decelerated for the last five quarters and is now below 5%, a six-year low. Even government policy think-tanks say this slowdown is unprecedented in […]

In the face of massive protests in Ecuador, the government of Lenin Moreno has been driven to declare a “state of exception” throughout the country – a repressive step just short of a state of […]

* SPN calls on the Buhari/APC Government to Provide Decent Jobs and Better Life in order to Curb Desperate Migration * SPN calls for the Unity of Nigerian and South African Working Masses to end […]

The September 1 state elections in the eastern German states of Brandenburg and Saxony saw a continuation of the decline of Social Democrats (SPD) and Christian Democrats (CDU) currently Germany’s ruling parties. The losses for […]

The Finnish government today announced concessions in response to the ongoing Finnish postal workers’ strike. Their union – the PAU -began four days of strike action on Sunday 1 September in response to management plans […]

After three months of unprecedented heroic mass struggle in Hong Kong against the Carrie Lam administration, there seems no sign of an end to the conflict. The beginning of term for school and university students […]

Following an intense and polarized factional struggle in the last 12 months an international conference was convened by the International Secretariat in London in July 2019. This very successful and optimistic meeting agreed to re-constitute […]

A public meeting organised in Jaffna last Sunday, 25 August, by the United Socialist Party (USP) was a great success with more than 70 people attending. It was to launch the party’s new book in […]