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Video: South African ‘Expanded Public Works Programme’ slave-labour workers say, “enough is enough!”

February 5, 2020 CWI

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. […]

India: General strike success, and missed opportunity

January 20, 2020 Jagadish Chandra, New Socialist Alternative (CWI in India)

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 […]

Austria: Greens enter government in coalition with Conservatives

January 18, 2020 Laura Rafetseder, Sozialistische Offensive (CWI Austria)

[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 […]

Anger and renewed protests shake Iran: mass opposition can end the regime

January 15, 2020 Robert Bechert, CWI

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 […]

Suleimani’s assassination – Middle East thrown into turmoil

January 4, 2020 Robert Bechert, CWI

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 […]

India: Angry mass protests shake the country

December 20, 2019 New Socialist Alternative (CWI in India)

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 […]

Sri Lanka: Election results shows sharp polarisation – united struggle needed

November 29, 2019 Siritunga Jayasuriya, General Secretary of the United Socialist Party

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. […]

Sri Lanka: Presidential election sees return of dictatorial Rajapaksa clan

November 18, 2019 TU Senan, CWI

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 […]

Wave of industrial action puts bosses under pressure in Finland

November 14, 2019 Edmund Schluessel, Sosialistinen Vaihtoehto (CWI in Finland)

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. […]

Bolivia: President Morales removed from power by US-backed coup

November 12, 2019 Niall Mulholland, Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI)

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 […]