Articles by Alexander Dmitriev

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 […]