Comment & Analysis

In late 2025, we published an article on the Socialist Party Scotland website titled Fractured World Economy Heading for a Crash? In it, we pointed to the various crisis factors that could trigger a new global capitalist […]

Below we republish a short archive article (first published in 2009) by Niall Mulholland of a play, A New World: A Life of Thomas Paine by Trevor Griffiths,  on the life and ideas of Thomas […]

Donald Trump’s recent tirades against “communists” during a rambling speech on the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution are a reminder of how the political right seeks to rewrite history. While claiming the mantle of […]

The latest outbreak of Ebola virus in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) threatens poor miners, their families and health workers. Its consequences could spread far beyond DRC borders. There have been 40 outbreaks since […]

The cynical attempt to manipulate the liberation aspirations of the masses in Iran in order to impose a new regime of repression, subservient to Washington’s dictates, has failed. The offensive has produced a catastrophe on […]

For millions of workers, there are bitter memories of the depths of the cost-of-living crisis. For many, it never ended. And so projections for a new round of inflation coming down the track will be […]

At the beginning of this year, the world economy seemed to develop in a promising direction, according to some analysists. The IMF revised its forecast from October 2025 upwards and cited a “resilient growth”. However, […]

The escalating trade conflict between the United States and China is not simply a dispute between politicians or the result of misguided policies from the White House. It reflects deep strains inside global capitalism itself. […]

On Friday, the 9th January 2026 a majority of representatives of the EU-countries finally agreed to a treaty with Mercosur, the Southern Common Market, a South American economic bloc. It seems that 25 years after […]

“As things stand, there are enough bubbles that are set to burst within a year. When they do burst they will cause significant economic disruption. The fallout won’t lead to a 1929-style crisis, and it […]

Originally published in Socialism Today No. 286, magazine of the Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales) Chinese company DeepSeek launched its generative AI ‘r1 model’ in January. Run and primarily funded by Liang Wenfeng, a […]

James Carville, the political advisor who coined the phrase ‘it’s the economy stupid’ as a campaigning slogan for Democrat Bill Clinton to win the 1992 presidential election, was once asked what he’d like to be […]

On March 23, 2020, Britain’s first lockdown in response to the global Covid pandemic began. By the end of the year, death figures in Britain were the worst in Europe. By the end of the […]

Trump’s 2nd April “Liberation Day” speech was a turning point, as it launched an open offensive to break capitalist globalisation in its current form. This was not, as Trump falsely claims, in the interests of US […]

The national congress of the CWI in England & Wales (Socialist Party) took place from 15th-17th March, eight weeks after Donald Trump’s inauguration as US president for the second time. TONY SAUNOIS, secretary of the […]

If anyone had doubts about the second Donald Trump administration unravelling the so-called ‘world order’, they will have had a sobering experience over the last few weeks. Trump has ditched the normal niceties of international […]

Under Donald Trump’s brutish ‘America First’ presidency, US imperialism’s ruthless determination to defend its own interests is no longer disguised by diplomatic fig-leaves. Instead, naked self-interest is the order of the day. That was demonstrated […]

When, in 1979, an all-powerful company put the crew of a spaceship in mortal danger to secure its own profits, ‘Alien’ seemed like a simple, action-packed B-movie. Even in 2024, the idea of capitalism in […]

Starmer offers to act as a “bridge” between US and Europe as No trust in Trump, Starmer or any of the capitalist warmongers! Fight for a socialist alternative to capitalism and war! The British prime […]

Trump’s ‘shock and awe’ offensive continues, nationally and internationally. The aim is to show his supporters that he is acting decisively, as one decision or announcement after another is made public.  And to throw Trump’s […]

Trump is back in the White House. Much of the world is gripped by fear about what his second term will mean, as are millions in America – particularly migrants, LGBTQ+ people, and others likely […]

The election victory of Donald Trump opens a new era internationally, and domestically in the United States. This election win is not merely a changing of the guard at the White House. Although the US […]

A Response to Philip Plickert’s Attempt to Absolve Capitalism Especially since the publication of Eric Williams’ groundbreaking work Capitalism and Slavery, which first appeared in 1944 and sheds light on the contribution of slavery to […]

One month after Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour party was ‘swept to power’ by a paltry 20% of the electorate – the lowest support base of any government since the introduction of universal male suffrage in […]

Originally published in Socialism Today, magazine of the Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales). This year is the thirtieth birthday of the World Trade Organisation (WTO). It is also the year China opened a WTO […]

Tech company Meta, owner of Facebook, Instagram, and Whatsapp, reported that it will pay $1.25 billion in dividends to its shareholders every quarter. Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, who has about 350 million shares, will get […]

On 27 October, 130 engineers at Tesla workshops in Sweden began strike action against the car giant. They have been demanding Tesla recognises their union IF Metall and negotiates a collective bargaining agreement. Striking workers […]

Minor infections often turned lethal until the mid-twentieth century. Now this threat could return, as micro-organisms become more resistant to antibiotics, antifungals, antiparasites and other antimicrobial compounds. “All of modern medicine is upheld by our […]

On 16th September, the British magazine, “The Economist”, published an article entitled, “The hard right is getting closer to power all over Europe”. And indeed, right-wing populist and far-right parties seem to be the main […]

The extremely right-wing Modi-led BJP government has completed nine years in power, with elections scheduled next year. At this juncture, when we draw political perspectives, we need to assess the processes that have been unfolding […]

“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 […]

As the cost-of-living crisis continues in Britain – with 30-year high inflation and the effects of over ten years of austerity that have decimated our public services – a growing number of people are beginning […]

‘Silent Coup – how corporations overthrew democracy’ is a devastating critique of the power and control wielded by major conglomerates and the secretive institutions and global legal systems they have built up over decades. They […]

Trade Unions’ Federation Must Provide Platform for United Actions against IMF’s Dictated Attacks and High Cost of Living. Ghana is in a serious debt crisis. The country defaulted on its external debts in December 2022 […]

The ongoing tensions between the United States and China have continued to escalate as the global economic crisis deepens. While the US economy is still the most powerful in the world, its dominance is being […]

The bloody war in Ukraine grinds on, with reportedly hundreds of thousands of deaths and injuries inflicted on both sides. As we enter spring, a new massive offensive appears to be in preparation by the […]

Bold socialist policies more urgent than ever! The global and multi-faceted crisis of capitalism has entered a new phase with the turmoil in the financial markets and the collapse of banks in the US and […]

Many bourgeois economists have tended to put a gloss on the deep systemic crisis facing world capitalism. They have often seized upon this or that marginal piece of “good” news to empirically conclude that this […]

In 2022, the world’s population hit the landmark figure of eight billion. How can the world support this growing number of people? Is overpopulation a challenge to be overcome, or does the problem lie elsewhere? […]

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 […]

2023 has opened with a sharp and substantial upsurge of activity by far-right and even some fascist forces in the South of Ireland. These forces are seeking to capitalise on the seething anger over the […]

“Liz Truss resigns after failed budget and market turmoil”; “more than 40% of mortgages withdrawn as market reels after mini-budget”; “Sunak says higher taxes and spending cuts needed to satisfy markets”. For a period of […]

The Kurdish Cultural Democratic Center (CDKF), in Paris, was again the target of a deadly attack that killed at least three people. This attack took place a few days from the 10th anniversary of the […]

Nobody should go hungry. But in Britain, in 2022, well over two million people rely on food banks and food-sharing apps like ‘Olio’ to feed themselves and their families. The current economic crisis is seeing […]

We live in a world where historically undreamt-of wealth exists, where technology has been developed in a way that was only envisaged in science fiction, where enough food, shelter and the basics of life could […]

Capitalism is beset by a multi-sided crisis, writes Tom Baldwin, Socialist Party (England & Wales CWI). There are extreme weaknesses in the global economy, rapidly falling living standards and social and environmental crises. It is […]

On 9 April 1992, the Conservative Party won a general election with a record-breaking 14 million votes. On 2 May 1997, it lost the next general election, with its standing shattered by the events that […]

With the rise of protest movements around climate change in recent years, an increasing spotlight has been shone on the question of food production and distribution. On one hand, global food production is estimated to […]

Across the United States, many Americans are increasingly concerned about affordable housing availability within their local communities. According to a Pew Research Center survey from 2021, roughly 50 percent of Americans have said that affordable […]

More food is being produced than ever before, yet world hunger has been rising since 2015 and is now back to its 2005 level of 811 million malnourished people. Nobody should go hungry. But capitalism […]

Cryptocurrencies have been hailed as innovative and ground-breaking assets that can have a transformative effect on the world economy. In the second article in our series ‘busting economic myths’, Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales) […]

As we head towards double-digit inflation, the Tory government in Britain is trying to offload blame for the huge price rises in fuel and gas by pointing to the price shock that has taken place […]

The following statement on the war in Ukraine was issued by NIPSA (the Northern Ireland Public Service Alliance), the largest trade union in Northern Ireland, on 28 March. The statement presents a class approach to […]

“We were already having problems with food prices… What countries are doing now is exacerbating that, and the war is putting us in a situation where we could easily fall into a food crisis,” said […]

The Ukraine war has again brought to the fore the plight of refugees. It has created 3.5 million Ukrainian refugees, making it the largest refugee crisis faced by Europe since World War Two. Scenes of […]

The ‘Inequality Kills’ report by Oxfam shines a light on the horrific poverty conditions experienced by billions around the world. It has been further exacerbated during the Covid pandemic – 99% of the world’s population […]

The policies of the Tory government, putting profit before safety, continue to punish working-class communities with unsafe workplaces and a cost of living crisis. It is vital that the trade union movement mobilises the strength […]

New Covid-19 variants are inevitable but the threat to world health comes from profit-driven capitalism. Early reports indicate the Omicron variant is more infectious than Delta. It is not yet known whether Omicron infection is […]

The proposed extradition of journalist and whistle-blower Julian Assange from Britain to the United States is a threat both to those who expose the wrong-doing of America’s ruling élite, to free speech, and to journalism […]

The recent acute shortages of energy, goods, and labour in some sectors in the UK stem in large part from UK-specific capitalist failings. But the volatile world situation is part of the background to those […]

The explosive leaking of 6.4 million documents and 1.2 million emails, the ‘Pandora papers’, showing the grotesque activities of the super-rich, stashing billions of US$ in offshore accounts to avoid tax and to launder money, […]

In the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, with fears of rising unemployment as the furlough scheme is wound up, and the full extent of the economic scarring from the pandemic is revealed, there are also […]

The pandemic hasn’t just exposed the class divide here in the UK. It’s also brought many tensions and inequalities between nations in an already fractured world to the surface. If the rapid spread of the […]

One hundred comrades from the Committee for a Workers International (CWI) attended an extended meeting of its International Executive Committee from Friday 9 April to Sunday 11th April. Due to coronavirus restrictions, the meeting was […]

In recent weeks new Covid infections have fallen steeply. Over 32 million people have had their first vaccination. Most of us are looking forward to activities we’ve been deprived of for much of the past […]

The first UK death from Covid-19 was recorded on 2 March 2020. Twelve months and over 120,000 deaths later, most people have been through greater upheavals than since the second world war. The UK has […]

Across the globe, at least 2.4 million people have now died from contracting Covid-19. Livelihoods have been wrecked and economies have crashed, with the world economy shrinking by over 4% and the UK suffering a […]

The Biden administration’s January 26 joint agreement with Russian President Vladimir Putin to sign ‘New START’, a five-year extension to the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, was greeted with some relief. After the US withdrawal from […]

The European Commission has been forced into a humiliating climb-down following its attempts to control exports of the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine, which threatened a ‘vaccine hard border’ in Ireland. The EU’s threat to stop vaccines […]

For over a year, the Covid-19 pandemic has wreaked havoc across the globe, causing over two million deaths and unleashing enormous economic and social crises. 2021 has ushered in new lockdowns in the UK, Germany […]

As the year 2020 comes to a close the turmoil and convulsions that have shaken global capitalism continue. The year has been a turning point in history, affecting every aspect of society. Commentators and historians […]

Around £320 billion is lost annually to corporate tax abuse and private tax evasion, the equivalent of nearly 34 million nurses’ salaries, according to the Tax Justice Network. Poorer countries are most affected, with tax […]

Covid-19 vaccines in record-breaking times have raised millions of people’s hopes that life will return to normal next year. But speed has also made many worry that corners are being cut in the race to […]

News that early results from a Covid-19 vaccine – produced by US-based pharmaceutical giant Pfizer, in conjunction with German company BioNTech – showed 90% effectiveness has been greeted with relief. Another vaccine trial, by US […]

On 7 October, after a trial lasting five-and-a-half years, the neo-Nazi organisation Golden Dawn was found guilty of being ‘a criminal organisation’. Outside the court in Athens, 15,000 anti-fascist protesters celebrated the news, displaying slogans […]

More than six months of the global COVID pandemic and global crisis have exposed everything that is rotten in this era of capitalist decline. Global capitalism is in a putrefying prolonged death agony, which is […]

A decade ago, following the worldwide financial crash, a Financial Times editorial congratulated capitalism on a bit of luck that “the left” was “missing in action in what should have been its finest hour. In […]

The intimate connections between organised crime, high finance, and the capitalist state have been exposed. Documents leaked from the US Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) detail over $2 trillion of suspect transactions over two decades. […]

Thousands of university and college students are returning to further and higher education campuses despite warnings this will lead to significant outbreaks of Covid-19. The University and College Union (UCU) and other education unions are […]

Governments around the world failed to protect people from Covid-19. Now they are desperately looking to vaccine development. Mass vaccination seems the best way to end the nightmare of further waves of infection, repeated lockdowns, […]

Covid-19 has disproportionately hit disabled people. This is one of the effects of capitalist society, which is disabling and puts profit before lives, including the people it disables. Around one-fifth of the population of England […]

The devastating impact of coronavirus in Scotland was underlined on 11 June when National Records of Scotland reported that 4,000 people had so far died from confirmed or suspected Covid-19. Scotland’s ‘excess mortality’, while slightly […]

Anatoly Chubais, the Russian oligarch, Chairman of Rusnano and one of the main initiators of privatisation in the 1990s, warned Forbes magazine recently about the consequences of the pandemic and the global crisis of 2020 […]

Covid-19 recognises no borders. It has killed hundreds of thousands, ravaged economies across the world and is not finished yet. All governments have been put to the test and poured billions into protecting their economies, […]

Just six months ago, Boris Johnson swanned into office as British Prime Minister, with the biggest Tory parliamentary majority since 1987. The Socialist newspaper, in our special edition produced the day after the general election, […]

On May 11, Vladimir Putin ended the “non-working days” regime and local authorities are gradually ending the self-isolation rules. This is happening while Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin, Putin’s Press Secretary, Dmitry Peskov, and the head […]

During the spread of coronavirus into Malaysia in the middle of February, the ruling government – the Pakatan Harapan (Coalition of Hope) – which was in power for one and a half years, collapsed. A […]

According to the Iranian regime, towards the end of May, the number of people in Iran infected with covid-19 was over 140,000, and the number of people who have died as a result of the […]

The figures for Covid-19 deaths in Britain, broken down by ethnicity, caused widespread shock and anger when they were released on 7 May by the Office for National Statistics (ONS). After adjusting for age, black […]

Tens of thousands of angry demonstrators poured onto the streets of Hong Kong last weekend, not only defying social-distancing regulations, but confronting police armed with tear gas, pepper spray, and water cannon. The sudden announcement […]

Few could have imagined when the Tories won the 2019 general election in Britain that five months later they would be carrying through measures of state intervention beyond the scale even of Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour […]

It was always unavoidable that mistakes would be made during the handling of this pandemic. No public health threat on this scale has existed in any developed economy for many decades – and given that […]

Five months after Covid-19 reached the United States, the Trump administration and US capitalism have still failed to mobilise an effective response to the pandemic. Parts of the country began reopening for business on 1 […]

Laura Spinney’s book, Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World (published by Cape), on the 1918 flu pandemic, was first published in 2017. Now in the midst of a […]

The corona crisis has entered a new phase, in terms of health, the economy and geopolitical relations. It has confirmed the main trends outlined in previous statements produced by the CWI. A new era of […]

With planning, personal protective equipment (PPE), ventilators, and other key products should have been easy to provide. Yet as each day goes by, the scale of the government’s unpreparedness for the Covid-19 crisis becomes more […]

“Meet the new messaging: same as the old messaging. Only even vaguer and more confusing. Not so much 15 minutes of TV fame as uncomfortably like watching someone have a breakdown in front of you. […]

After a pause for a little over a month with the covid-19 lockdown, new protests have erupted in Lebanon, as the situation for workers has become desperate. Unemployment has reached 30%, while hyperinflation is worsening, […]

Like many ruling administrations internationally, the Scottish National Party (SNP)-led Scottish government has seen an increase in approval ratings and support during the Covid-19 pandemic. A recent YouGov poll found 74% of Scots held the […]

Donald Trump’s latest outburst against China over the origins of the coronavirus does not come as a surprise. As deaths from the disease and mass unemployment continue to mount and the US economy faces its […]

The cost of the Covid-19 industry-wide shutdown is being passed to workers in unpaid wages, compulsory leave, and retrenchments. Comair has followed SAA and SA Express into business rescue. Cabin crew and pilots are under […]

This week will mark seven weeks since Britain entered lockdown. It appears that the death rate from Covid-19 is finally starting to fall. Nonetheless, the official number of deaths is now higher than every European […]

There is a growing scientific consensus that successful management of the coronavirus crisis requires a comprehensive plan – combining mass testing, contact tracing, and supported isolation of potentially infected individuals. But a managed plan of […]

Two mile queues for food parcels. Corruption and patronage in their distribution. Shops being looted. Schools vandalised and burned. Collapsing household income. Confusion over accessing social grants. Tens-of-thousands of arrests and fines. Harassment, beatings, and […]

Using the covid-19 pandemic as an excuse, the criminal Chilean government, led by Sebastian Piñera, gave a blank cheque to the police – carabineros – to brutally repress a protest of the working class on […]

Last Friday, on 1 May, workers took action to mark May Day – international workers’ day – where they were could, despite the Covid-19 lockdowns. CWI comrades participated in and also initiated May Day actions, […]

Lenin once said that with the 1917 Russian revolution, “Imperialism broke at its weakest link”. Today, the deadly combination of the Covid-19 pandemic and the rapid development of an almost unprecedented worldwide economic catastrophe is […]

Celebrate May Day 2020 with the Committee for a Workers’ International by taking part in this Facebook Live rally hosted by Socialist Party Scotland and the Socialist Party (England & Wales) on 1st May. Hear […]

In the space of one week, the trade union movement is marking two of its most important annual days – International Workers’ Memorial Day, on 28 April, and May Day on 1 May. Coming as […]

The Nigerian federal government ordered the lockdown of Lagos, Abuja and Ogun State as a measure to contain the spread of coronavirus, with effect from March 31, 2020. Lagos is the epicentre of covid-19 in […]

On 3 April Sweden’s Radio P3’s news programme ran an article relating reports from anonymous medical workers who claimed that covid-19 patients who would have survived with intensive care were being denied it. Johan Styrud […]

The Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI) extends revolutionary socialist greetings to workers and the oppressed everywhere. This year’s May Day takes place in extraordinary circumstances. The covid-19 pandemic has fully exposed, in the words […]

Since October 2019, the political and social situation has changed in a very favorable sense for the Chilean working class and other parts of the population. The country saw a mass uprising which was a […]

As is the case the world over, the coronavirus crisis has exposed all the inadequacies, incapacities, and the insoluble contradictions of India’s capitalist state. In popular terminology, India is labeled a “democracy” because the world’s […]

Twenty six transport workers have died from covid-19 in London, the majority were bus drivers. Now London bus drivers have forced Transport for London (TfL) and bus companies to implement safety measures to protect them […]

The US is facing an unprecedented historic crisis with the ongoing covid-19 pandemic. The economy is in ruins, as over 22 million Americans file for unemployment, which is expected to rise to 30% unemployment in […]

In the main, there is support among the working class for the lockdown measures in Ireland. Workers recognise the imperative of defeating covid-19 and that this will necessitate often severe constraints on daily life. Social […]

The devastating consequences of the covid-19 pandemic and the unprecedented economic global capitalist crisis which it triggered, has continued to ravage all continents. It could cause the onset of one of the deepest recessions, with […]

The deep crisis in Russia arising from both the ‘oil war’ and the covid-19 pandemic will soon be widely felt. However, Russia is not ready for it. According to analysts, the consequences of the crisis […]

We are re-publishing below a joint statement produced by various trade unions, union activists and New Socialist Alternative (CWI in India) regarding the covid-19 crisis in India.  It is a scandal that private hospitals across […]

The following joint declaration was initiated by trade union figures, and left organisations, in Chile, including members of Socialismo Revolucionario (Chilean section of the CWI): Once again, the workers and the peoples of the world […]

The coronavirus pandemic in the UK has not yet passed its peak. Hundreds are still dying every day, and yet the pressure is mounting for the Tories to announce an ‘exit strategy’. But where is […]

The public campaigning of Socialist Organisation Solidarity (Sol, CWI in Germany) is, like all left organisations, greatly affected by the covid-19 crisis. We were involved in tenants’ protests and campaigns for free public transport. With […]

Below is the first of two articles on Germany and the covid-19 crisis. The second article, which will be published on Wednesday 15 April, will discuss the campaigning work of Sozialistische Organisation Solidarität (CWI Germany) […]

The first cases of Covid-19 appeared in France, in late January, but the government waited until March to take the epidemic seriously, after it had already been declared as a pandemic by the World Health […]

As coronavirus deaths continue to mount at a terrifying rate – the UK Tory government’s responsibility for worsening the crisis is becoming clearer every day. We are reading heartbreaking stories of NHS staff dying in […]

Presently, there is no escape from the impact of the coronavirus pandemic. The world is going through a huge turning point. Tens of thousands have died and tens of millions have lost their jobs and […]

There is growing concern over police and military brutality in the enforcement of South Africa’s twenty-one-day lockdown regulations. Videos have circulated on social media of soldiers beating up and kicking residents in informal settlements, forcing […]

Over five hundred people in Sweden have now died from COVID-19, more than in Norway, Denmark, Finland, and Iceland, combined. Far too late, the Swedish government is slowly planning to implement lockdown of the kind […]

Vilma Alvarez is a supporter of Socialismo Revolucionario (CWI Chile) and a leader of a trade union at the Jumbo supermarket company. The leadership of the union confederation Vilma belongs to, Co-ordinadora de Sindicatos del […]

Up to now, the Ecuadorian port city of Guayaquil has been better-known to the world as a picturesque holiday destination. Its mixture of tropical vegetation, colourful colonial architecture, charming cafes and the extensive walkable waterfront […]

“And to Mr Bezos [plutocratic billionaire owner of Amazon] my message is simple. I don’t give a damn about your power. You think you’re powerful? We’re the ones that have the power. Without us working, […]

Migrant workers from north India, in an area of Tamil Nadu, Coimbatore, blocked roads and broke a new curfew, demanding that food, shelter and sanitary facilities be provided to them. The local administration made vain […]

In response to the coronavirus epidemic, the Algerian government opened at least five bank accounts at the External Bank of Algeria (BEA) to enable Algerians to “participate financially in the fight against the coronavirus”. This […]

Covid 19 is spreading extremely rapidly across the globe. Countries have taken various steps to curb it but have still not been able to stop the virus from going further. The Sri Lankan government of […]

The popular myth about Finland is that of a socialist paradise. It is true that, unlike in other countries in Europe, much of the social-democratic welfare state has been preserved. The coronavirus pandemic, however, has […]

In the early stages of a war or national emergency, there is often a mood to pull together in the ‘national’ interest, and the idea that ‘party politics’ should be put to one side. An […]

Anger is building at Boris Johnson and his Tory Westminster government over the handling of the Covid-19 pandemic. The lack of widespread testing, hundreds of thousands of workers losing their jobs, the fear over the […]

The Covid-19 pandemic is everywhere exposing the dirty underbelly of modern capitalism. In  Northern Ireland, decades of attacks by Tory and New Labour governments in Westminster, and from local parties, on NHS services, have left […]

On the other side of the coronavirus pandemic crisis, things will never be the same again. This will be similar to the situation after the two world wars of the twentieth century. The general situation […]

Even during a global pandemic, profit is the top priority for capitalists. On the one hand, our freedom of movement is restricted, and, on the other hand, we are supposed to continue working with numerous […]

In late 1934 and early 1935, parts of Sri Lanka (then Ceylon) were plagued by an epidemic of malaria. This followed huge floods in 1934. The British colonial rulers and the ‘Ceylonese Council of Ministers’ […]

All that seemed solid now seems to be melting. This is the effect of the coronavirus crisis. The governing Tories in the UK cut – but now they spend. They privatised – but now they […]

The 26 March countrywide lockdown South African President, Cyril Ramaphosa, announced in an emergency attempt to contain the spread of the coronavirus, has been hailed as the decisive intervention the pandemic required. Worldwide the number […]

Even though the figures are rising daily, it is not certain yet how disastrous the ravages of COVID-19 will be for Nigerians in terms of the number of infections and deaths. Economically, however, there is […]

Coronavirus continues to spread in the United States, with new confirmed cases in West Virginia completing the virus’ spread to all 50 states and three U.S. territories. As the crisis seems to plateau in China, […]

With right-wing politicians, like Hungarian premier, Viktor Orbán, not slow to blame ‘foreigners’ for the coronavirus crisis, the looming world downturn could provide new opportunities for the far right to develop. The continuing murderous activity […]

Like most of the world, Southern Ireland has been hit hard by the COVID-19 ‘coronavirus’ crisis. By mid-March schools, colleges, pubs, creches etc., were on an initial two-week shutdown. Transport links have been severely curtailed. […]

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, […]

On Friday 13 March, the Japanese Upper House approved a bill granting Japanese Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe, the power to declare a state of emergency to fight coronavirus. Unfortunately, the two major opposition parties, the […]

Many frontline local authority workers, including in Belfast, Northern Ireland, will be asked to maintain essential services throughout the coronavirus crisis. In doing so, they need to remember their first priority is their own survival […]

A newly spreading virus is a danger that can befall any society. The question facing the world today, however, is what kind of society can best meet such a challenge. As the coronavirus pandemic spreads, […]

As global markets reel in the face of the developing coronavirus pandemic, it is difficult to see how these events will not be the trigger for a new world capitalist economic downturn, with all the […]

The coronavirus pandemic has laid bare the inadequacies of capitalism internationally, and the problems with private healthcare in the United States, in particular. After months of the corporate media blaming ‘socialism’ for food and consumer […]

“We are at war!” President Emmanuel Macron declared in his speech to the nation on the evening of Monday, 16 March. It came just one day after less than a third of voters turned out […]

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 new stage of the economic crisis in Lebanon was reached on Monday 9 March, as the state defaulted on a £1.2bn euro-bond – the first default in the country’s history. This debt will prove […]

Italy is in lock-down in the fight against coronavirus. Bars, restaurants and shops are closed, with the exception of supermarkets, pharmacies and newsagents. And yet, under pressure from the bosses’ organisation, Confindustria, workers are still […]

British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, won the general election, last December, by trying to pose as a ‘man of the people’. Despite the rhetoric the first budget of his premiership showed clearly that, like all […]

South Korea has been held up as a model by some commentators for its containment of coronavirus. It’s far from perfect, but a rapid supply of resources shows that the capitalists do have the money […]

With confirmed coronavirus cases in the thousands, the government of Italy has placed the entire country on lockdown. Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte first quarantined 16 million of the country’s 60 million population in infected ‘red […]

Nine weeks after the first Covid-19 coronavirus patient was identified in Wuhan it had spread to 98 countries. This is much faster than the 2003 Sars coronavirus outbreak, which eventually spread to 37 countries. However, […]

The biggest one-day fall in stock markets since the financial crisis; an oil price war between Saudi Arabia and Russia; and the fastest drop in the cost of oil for 30 years. The impact of […]

As new coronavirus infections gather pace – in Britain and around the world – British Tory Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, claims the country is “well-prepared with a fantastic NHS.”  Who’s he kidding? NHS performance this […]

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 […]

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 […]

Tragedies like the deaths from novel coronavirus, over 400 at the time of writing, are never just ‘natural disasters’. They are not isolated from society. They are impacted by capitalism and also have an effect […]

For the third time in 20 years, a new virus has spread from animals to humans. It began on 29 December in Wuhan, a Chinese city of eleven million, probably crossing to humans at a […]

To meet an ever-growing questioning of capitalism since the crisis of 2007-08, the system’s defenders look to theoretically justify its continued rule. The latest effort is by the renowned former World Bank economist, Branko Milanović, […]

The issue of allowing US corporations access to the NHS and the affect this could have on the cost of drugs has featured prominently during the election campaign. Labour Party leader, Jeremy Corbyn, recently announced […]

The following statement was agreed at a meeting of European CWI sections and supporters, along with visitors from the USA and Nigeria, which was held earlier this week, in London. socialistworld.net The world situation is […]

The deep crises in the world economy and political establishments are not only reflected in attempts to resurrect Keynesian-style policies. Other capitalist economists are proposing that an even harsher neoliberal model should be applied – […]

Brutal neoliberal policies and austerity has created growing mass anger. The growth in Trump-style populism is one consequence of this, as is an increased interest in ‘New Deal’ style reforms. A recent book contrasts different […]

Last week, US President Donald Trump announced that under the rarely invoked International Emergency Economic Powers Act, the Chinese telecoms giant Huawei and seventy of its affiliated companies are set to be added to the […]

2018 marked ten years since the collapse of Lehman Brothers bank which plunged the world economy into the deepest economic recession since the 1930s. The financial virus spread quickly, causing production and trade to seize […]

Tories torn apart, French workers and youth in revolt, ‘populism’ on the rise … revolution in the air?

The underlying crisis of world capitalism has, as we predicted, significantly deteriorated in the year. In the decisive sphere of the world economy a new crisis looms, the timing and character of which are not […]

No-deal Brexit, establishment splits, threat of renewed downturn…

The socialist answer to capitalist crisis

“How things have changed,” declared US-based scholar Minxin Pei. Pei was referring to the problems now confronting China’s strongman, Xi Jinping, who suddenly doesn’t look quite as strong any more. Pei is among a horde […]

Mariana Mazzucato’s new book is a detailed exposé of the parasitic character of modern capitalism, drawing on Karl Marx’s theory of the source of value creation. But understanding the law of value is only a […]

G7 failure, penalty tariffs reflect capitalist world disorder

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 […]

The IMF in its latest prognosis praises what it sees as a stable growth of the world economy. Yes, there are some risks the IMF says, not least the political ones. But the crisis has […]

Report of discussion on World Perspectives at CWI International Executive Committee meeting in November 2017.

CWI International Executive Committee debates European perspectives

See below the document on Latin America discussed, amended and approved at the November 2017 meeting of the CWI International Executive Committee.

Here we publish the final agreed, amended and approved version of the Thesis on the European situation voted on at the meeting of the CWI International Executive Committee in November, 2017. 

We publish below the final, agreed and amended version of the World Perspectives document approved at the CWI International Executive Committee meeting in November.

We publish below a draft document on the situation in Europe which will be discussed, amended and voted on at a meeting of the CWI International Executive Committee. After the meeting, we will publish the […]

The North Korean bomb test on 3 September, the most powerful yet, and the bellicose reaction of the US, underlines the volatile and dangerous situation in the peninsula and entire region. The huge blast in […]

An international campaign by capitalist politicians and media has been unleashed against president Nicolás Maduro’s Venezuelan government. It has been used by Labour’s Blairista right wing to try to weaken Jeremy Corbyn. In Spain, the […]

Reply to Rob Sewell

The Daily Mail reacted with predictable hysteria when, in May 2017, John McDonnell stated: “You can’t understand the capitalist system without reading Marx’s Das Kapital.” When asked to immediately condemn his shadow chancellor, Labour leader […]

A Response to Bhaskar Sunkara

  Far away from mainstream media’s attention, a catalogue of calamities is falling on Yemen. A devastating war, copiously fuelled by the world’s most potent capitalist powers, is subjecting the Yemeni people to enhanced misery, […]

Consolidating the Corbyn revolution

Review of ‘The End of Alchemy: money, banking and the future of the global economy’ by Mervyn King

2 May, as well as being in the midst of preparations for the upcoming snap election, marks 20 years since another general election – the one in 1997 which brought Tony Blair and New Labour […]

Everything to play for in 2017. 2016 was the year when the pent-up anger of the masses worldwide finally spilled over in a series of political earthquakes – a delayed reaction to the devastating world economic […]

Review of ‘And The Weak Must Suffer What They Must?’ by Yanis Varoufakis

Bosses strive to offload cost of crisis on working class – a struggle for system change is needed

Socialist alternative is essential

Playing the underdog

Steel plant to close after a century of production, raw material prices collapsing, China’s economy slowing, the ongoing euro crisis…

The sudden plunge of oil and gas prices has underlined the volatility in the world capitalist economy

Clare Doyle reviews ’Eleanor Marx – A Life’ by Rachel Holmes

New technological innovations are having a huge impact on the capitalist system, a subject explored in a new book, The Zero Marginal Cost Society.

Thomas Piketty: The new Marx?

Exposing the ‘architecture of oppression’

To Save Everything, Click Here • By Evgeny Morozov •

‘Lenin’ by Lars T Lih

A small antidote to the misinformation about World War One the ruling class will unleash

How to change the world

This pamphlet by the firefighters’ union in Britain makes a case for using a publicly owned banking system as a tool for economic planning.

"The movie’s meant to be an allegory for class warfare." – Neill Blomkamp, director

Plutocrats wield power and influence by virtue of their wealth. The ultra-free-market, globalised capitalism of recent years has produced a new breed of super-rich plutocrats.

Representatives of the 1% pledge more austerity, war and environmental degradation

End the rule of big business, poverty and war

Recently discovered photos of the Spanish civil war

The Troika’s bail-out package is an economic and social disaster for the people of Cyprus.

In the first week of March share prices surged on the New York Stock Exchange followed by other major exchanges. Does this signify a revival of the global capitalist economy?

No trust in capitalist government! No austerity for the Euro! Kick out the Troika! For a socialist alternative![Updated article, 25 March]

Review of Bloody Nasty People: The rise of Britain’s far-right, By Daniel Trilling

A film about revolution and the appalling injustices of society – but the message is about individual salvation through love.

The massive social struggles around the civil war bring up important issues that are played out in the continuing battles today to end racial, class, sexual and gender exploitation under U.S. and global capitalism.

We are living through one of the most dramatic periods in history

We are living through one of the most dramatic periods in history.

It is 50 years since The Beatles’ first single, Love Me Do, released on 5 October 1962, a rough sounding beat record.

Time to strike a united blow against EU/Troika austerity! For a European-wide day of general strikes and mobilisations this autumn! Towards a 24-hour all-European general strike!

The problems of the eurozone, rooted in the clash of national interests and the rivalries of capitalist leaders, remain as intractable as ever.

Billions around the world suffer from either malnourishment or obesity.

Global capitalism is mired in depression. A Keynesian tract for our times by Paul Krugman proposes a way out

After a month of negotiations on an Arms Trade Treaty at the United Nations in New York, the discussions came to an ignominious end last Friday when, first the United States and then Russia and […]

What role has migration played in the development of capitalist society? What impact does it have in this time of savage austerity?

Take the wealth off the 1%!

Capitalist crisis and workers’ mass struggles take global dimensions

Capitalist leaders are in disarray as they strive and fail to get to grips with the eurozone crisis and its threat to the global economy

“[R]ather than achieving convergence, the euro has sharpened the differences between the national economies”

International Workers’ Day and the socialist alternative to austerity and barbarism

Challenging times for the left in Europe

"Why It’s Kicking Off Everywhere: the new global revolutions", by Paul Mason

The European economies are in the throes of an austerity-induced recession, which is likely to be protracted.

CWI – a socialist analysis

On the brink of a new downturn

Capitalist chaos – class struggle sharpens

Fight for socialism

Rich hoard wealth – Fight for a socialist future!

Study finds 1% of corporations control world economy

1973: London is drab, faded by economic decline. The optimism of the post-war boom is gone. The world is split into two opposed systems, the capitalist west and the planned economies of the east, dominated […]

Eurozone threatened by sovereign debt and banking crisis and compounded by near-zero growth

Eagleton’s book can act as a ’refresher course’ and a useful introduction. It is not without its faults and limits, however.

The bloody terrorist outrages of 11 September 2001 in New York, Pennsylvania and Washington were one of the defining moments in recent history.

Capitalist strategists are filled with gloom at the prospect of a new economic downturn.

Trying to control an anarchic and blind system, none of the measures taken stem the downward spiral

The package does little or nothing to reduce the unsustainable debt mountain or stimulate economic growth

The economy and inter-imperialist relations

Does Eric Hobsbawm provide a revolutionary perspective?

The latest rich list produced by the Forbes magazine shows that the collective wealth of the world’s 1,210 billionaires has reached a new record high of $4.5 trillion – up nearly $1 trillion on last […]

Capitalism from a social and economic standpoint has faced in the last three years one of its greatest crises in its history. This has opened an era of class struggles and major developments in consciousness […]

THE FINANCIAL speculators and hedge funds that so spectacularly contributed to the financial crisis resulting in the ’Great Recession’ have now turned their attention to the international food market with devastating consequences.

‘Plan B’ – Will it work?

In the "Joe Show", a US radio talk, CWI members explain that capitalism has failded and it’s time for socialism to come to rescue.

Clashes escalate crisis

In the past few weeks there’s been a noticeable shift in tone in the business pages and journals. Their confidence in the so-called “recovery” has faded, and has been replaced by anxiety.

Wages have been slashed, unemployment has exploded and our public services have been cut savagely as the economic crisis developed in Ireland. All of this is the result of the policies of the right-wing government […]

This week, the Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI) is holding its annual Summer School, in Belgium.

Support for European-wide protest on 29 September

The G20 meeting in Toronto of the leaders of the main capitalist governments of the world demonstrated a complete incapacity to solve the huge problems that confront us, particularly those hardest-hit – the poor and […]

Counter-summit to meeting of European, Latin American and Caribbean leaders discusses alternatives to the current crisis.

Another way for the banks and finance institutions to earn a quick buck.

Time to raise the socialist banner – For a society to eliminate the horrors of capitalism

2010 – Savage social cuts, workers’ resistance and growth of socialist ideas

Political, social and environmental consequences and tasks of the workers’ movement

Workers start the fight-back

Capitalist failure, then and now!

Workers’ struggles point way forward – Fight for a socialist future

Anger and protests manifest across the world

Capitalist bailouts or socialist nationalisation?

Capitalism kills – concludes study of privatisation era

A guide for future struggles.

Workers’ struggles mount

Global economic downturn gaining momentum

Build socialist alternative

Statement by Nouriel Roubini

Is the US economy also heading for a ‘lost decade’?

Global Capitalism in Crisis

Video interview with Peter Taaffe, General Secretary of the Socialist Party, cwi in England and Wales

End workers’ misery through genuine nationalisation and democratic socialist planning

Capitalist finance system nears meltdown

Karl Marx was right

Reviews of ‘The Gods That Failed: How Blind Faith in Markets Has Cost Us Our Future’ by Dan Atkinson & Larry Elliot

Price of petroleum is set in casinos of finance capitalism

The Trillion Dollar Meltdown, By Charles R Morris

By John Green, Artery Publications, London 2008

Workers and Poor Masses Should Struggle for Socialist Alternative

Around the world, strikes, demonstrations and protests have erupted as millions upon millions of workers, peasants and poor face the horror of rapidly rising food prices.

A review of the latest book by economist and commentator Paul Krugman, ‘Conscience of a Liberal’

Flat Earth News by Nick Davies

A new stage of the crisis

Opportunities for socialists will develop in the next period.

US sliding into recession

Global capitalism faces its worst crisis since 1945.

Build a socialist alternative

The global capitalist economy has been hit by a major credit crunch.

Over the last week, billions of pounds have been wiped off share values worldwide as stock markets plunged.

It is no accident that these books have been produced at this historical juncture.

Young Stalin by Simon Sebag Montefiore

25 anniversary of Falkland Islands/Las Malvinas conflict

Exclusive pictures by Paul Mattsson, cwi photographer. Pictures.

Pictures.

Socialists must build powerful alternative to capitalism

CWI supporters defend protesters

10,000 protesters successfully breached police lines

State repression will not stop peaceful anti-globalisation demonstrators

Protesters plan to blockade meeting of war criminals and exploiters

For people watching the television news, the coverage of the anti-G8 protests has been dominated by reports of violent clashes between police and some protesters.

Hundreds of thousands of G8 protesters will be in Germany demanding "poverty is made history", wars and occupations are ended, and that ‘climate change’ is reversed.

100,000s will protest their policies!

Financial bubbles and the overaccumulation of capital

An unmistakeable message from Will Hutton’s important book is that China is heading for revolution, although the author merely predicts serious ‘convulsions’.

Can poor loans system end poverty and hunger?

Capitalism creates grotesque inequalities

Since the early 1980s, world capitalism has followed a trajectory based on globalisation and neo-liberal policies.

Capitalism’s ruthless struggle for oil and gas

Was this merely a timely ‘correction’ of speculative bubbles or a preliminary tremor marking the onset of a deeper crisis?

The world economy today is hooked on fossil fuels: oil, gas and coal.

;Nine days that shook British capitalism to its foundation.

Nine days that shook British capitalism to its foundation.

Four schools continue to function despite freezing temperatures

"Opposing imperialism" was the theme given to yesterday’s protest which marked the opening of the sixth World Social Forum (WSF) in Caracas, Venezuela.

Sacked for speaking out

The international struggle against capitalism and for revolutionary socialism

International campaign

Hong KongThe Korean farmers and workers have made a lasting impression on the population of Hong Kong during the anti-WTO protests of the last week, teaching them new methods of struggle.

"Hong Kong will not go down as the city where the Doha Round died," exclaimed the South China Morning Post (SCMP) with a sigh of relief. Perhaps not, but it wasn’t the place where the […]

"Junk the WTO!", "Derail the WTO!", "Stop the Doha Round", these were some of the slogans echoing Hong Kong last Sunday.

cwi leaflet being distributed at the Anti-WTO Summit in Hong Kong.

The devastating earthquake caused widespread destruction in the northern areas of Pakistan and Pakistani occupied Kashmir (POK) on 8 October.

Tremendous response from unions and working class internationally

Urgent appeal for further earthquake aid

As winter looms thousands more could die

Party Branch promises to double the amount raised by the members

The Committee will organise all the relief and political work in Bagh.

Political manoeuvres begin

…dismayed by the inadequacies of the authorities

Eyewitness report from Bagh

No truck has left Lahore for the last two days

Urgent appeal for earthquake aid

"Death everywhere…a stench of decaying bodies"

Kashmir worst hit region with over 21000 casualties already reported – Wide swathes of destruction – Many towns and villages wiped out – Hundreds and thousands of people still waiting for rescue and food – […]

Lack of funding for public services makes disaster even worse.

An attempt to discredit the Chinese Revolution and, by association, the ideas of socialism.

Lenin by Christopher Read

In business to spread poverty

The Make Poverty History demo over, the leaders of the counter summit organised a series of meetings and rallies to put forward strategy for the movement. Many of those who attended the meetings were clearly […]

"The massive protests we saw show that people really do want poverty to end and have an eagerness for another world.

It was impossible not to be moved by the CWI rally on Saturday after the main demo. I heard the comment, "That was fantastic" again and again afterwards.

As the leaders of the G8 imperialist powers begun to assemble in Gleneagles, Scotland, where hotel room rental runs to £685 per night, millions of people around the world took to the streets on demonstrations […]

Four page cwi leaflet for G8 protest. PDF. Opens in new window. 72KB.

As the leaders of the G8 imperialist powers begun to assemble in Gleneagles, Scotland, where hotel room rental runs to £685 per night, millions of people around the world took to the streets on demonstrations […]

Biggest political demo ever in Scotland.

The experience of eight years of a pro-capitalist, pro-war New Labour government has graphically illustrated that Blair and Co are a party of big business.

The discussions on climate change at the G8 summit in Gleneagles seem doomed before they have even started.

More than 20,000 people die each day in the neo-colonial world because of "extreme poverty".

There are currently more than 2 billion of the world’s poorest people who have no access to clean water or sanitation.

There are currently more than 2 billion of the world’s poorest people who have no access to clean water or sanitation.

The world over there is a scientific consensus that global warming is a real and worsening problem.

One measure of the surge in speculative activity is the sharp rise in foreign exchange (FX) dealing. In September 2004 the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) published its sixth triennial survey of foreign exchange and […]

Seventy-three percent of those who were asked in a national opinion poll were in favour of increasing the top rate of income tax on incomes of greater than £100,000 from 40p in the pound to […]

The G8 are eight – we are billions! Join the anti-capitalist protests!

In the run-up to the G8 Summit, to be held in July in Gleneagles, it is as important as ever to raise the question: how can the world’s problems be alleviated?

The G8 (Group of Eight) is comprised of the leaders of eight of the richest nations in the world: USA, UK, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Canada and, from 1998, Russia.

Memoirs of Malaysian communist guerrilla leader holds many lessons for today

From four hours before young people in their thousands streamed towards the Gigantinho ("Little Giant") stadium in the sweltering Summer heat.

2005.

’Lula traitor’, ’Lula your place is in Davos’. These were just some of the chants on the 3,000 strong protest which greeted Brazilian president Lula at the fifth World Social Forum (WSF) in Porto Alegre, […]

Brazil’s president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was heckled on the stage at the World Social Forum yesterday by the same international activists who hailed him as a saviour when he swept to office two […]

Well over 100,000 people turned out on a scorching afternoon in Porto Alegre, Brazil, to participate in a demonstration that marked the opening of the fifth World Social Forum.

Over 70 members and sympathisers of the committee for a workers’ international will be making sure that the ideas of socialism are brought to the tens of thousands who will attend the meetings and demonstrations […]

Appeal to Activists in Brazil and Internationally

Appeal to activists in Brazil and internationally

Over 100,000 workers, youth and others exploited by capitalism are expected to attend the 2005 World Social Forum (WSF) in Porte Allegre, Brazil between 26-31 January.

When most of the world’s mass media is firmly "embedded" into the thinking of governments and the big business interests that lie behind them, the publication of a collection of some of the greatest pieces […]

What forms revolutionaries? Maybe they are not so different to everyone else but are the ones who realise first that something has to be done. They are the ones who can’t just shrug their shoulders […]

The price of oil has surged during 2004, after a period of relatively low prices.

The sluggish world economy is being dragged along by two coupled locomotives, with US capitalism at the head of the train and with China as a key auxiliary.

Before the establishment of the National Health Service (NHS) in 1948, an accident or illness could be a catastrophe for working class people.

A ’black gold’ rush is in full swing.

It’s not surprising that Michael Moore’s documentary Fahrenheit 9/11 is storming the US. The film’s release coincides with Americans’ growing anger at George Bush and his right-wing regime.

Builders Labourers fight deregistration, 1981-94, by Liz Ross.

IN ONE of the most controversial and the highest-grossing Spanish films ever, ’The Basque Ball’, director Julio Medem examines the Basque question through hundreds of interviews.

The recovery in the world economy continues to assume an anaemic character.

Eurozone leaders attending the recent G7 summit of finance ministers from the richest capitalist nations let out a howl of impotent anguish. The statement issued after their meeting (7/8 February) at Boca Raton, Florida, deplored […]

A socialist world is possible and necessary

What kind of conditions do workers and young people face in your area?

Banners, posters and slogans against Bush and his war on Iraq were prominent in Mumbai (India) on 21st January.

"Many multinational corporations feel their mouths water at the mention of the opening up of the Indian economy. India offers a good ground for plunder. Even if only 10 per cent of the population of […]

Pictures from Mumbai

"Many multinational corporations feel their mouths water at the mention of the opening up of the Indian economy. India offers a good ground for plunder. Even if only 10 per cent of the population of […]

Over 120,000 people have attended the World Social Forum in Mumbai.

THE STRUGGLE over the war was as much for the ’hearts and minds’ of the American people as it was for those of the Vietnamese.

Michael Moore said "barring success", Stupid White Men, (reviewed in the socialist, issue 254), would be his last book. But last year when George W Bush was supposedly so popular, it was the leading non-fiction […]

THE BOOMS of the 1980s and 1990s were both driven by frenzied international financial speculation. They have left deep problems for capitalism, and now form a massive barrier to a new, sustained economic upswing in […]

ON A bright June day in Liverpool in 1977, hundreds of trade unionists and socialists took part in a march to rally at the final resting place of Robert Noonan – known more popularly as […]

DUBLIN HAS the odious task of hosting the World Economic Forum (WEF) from 19 – 20 October. The WEF, which is a representative "think tank" for the top thousand multinational corporations in the world, plans […]

ERIC ARTHUR Blair, better known under his pseudonym George Orwell, was born in Motihari, India 100 years ago this month, his father being a lower-ranking colonial administrator in the days of the British Raj.

On Saturday morning there was a meeting of the Greek Social Forum against war and imperialism.

Around 100,000 people demonstrated in Thessaloniki, Greece, on Saturday 21 June to show their opposition to the EU summit.

Just before the demonstrations against the EU summit started, the Greek Social Forum (GSF) organised a number of meetings. Xekinima, an active part of the GSF, organised a meeting on the need for a political […]

During the Greek EU summit thousands will join the protests in the city of Thessaloniki. Nikei De Pooter (a member of Linkse Socialistiche Partij [LSP]/ Mouvement pour une Alternative Socialiste [MAS], Belgian affiliate of the […]

The majority of the members of the delegations to the G8 summit in Evian had accommodation in Lausanne, in the French-speaking part of Switzerland. In Lausanne, as well as in Geneva and on the French […]

THIS IS a tremendous follow up to Gore Vidal’s equally impressive Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace published last year.

NOAM CHOMSKY’S Power and Terror is an attack on the hypocrisy and double standards of US foreign policy. It explains why US imperialism is loathed by so many people; because it interferes in international politics […]

FINANCE MINISTERS from the seven largest economies in the world met recently to debate how to revive the sick world economy. However, there was little agreement on how to revive the patient.

A major retrospective of the work of the 20th Century painter Max Beckmann (1884-1950) is currently running at the Tate Modern in London. Given the exhibition’s major concern with war and violent conflict, the timing […]

"Ole, ole, ole, Lula… Lula… Lula", chanted a vast crowd that engulfed the Sunset Park in Porto Alegre on Friday afternoon, last week.