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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

This film “cost $20,000,000,000,000 to make” – a reference to the economic losses, so far, from the global crisis

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

IMF summit fiasco

In about three weeks, a Plenary Meeting of the General Assembly of the United Nations will be held in New York to review progress in reaching the Milennium Development Goals (MDGs).

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.

Business and media circles are agog at “the most significant development in philanthropy” for many decades.

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!

Ongoing misery for working people

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.

From finance crash to full-blown economic crisis

Workers’ struggles mount

Global economic downturn gaining momentum

Banks saved – workers’ and public sector paid

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