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The fight against imperialism and war continues – Full clarification is demanded The anti-war activists from Germany, whose entry into Turkey had been prevented, have been deported and returned home safe and sound on July […]

Solidarity with Chiara, Christoph, Alessio, Stella Marie and Jan! At the invitation of the Workers’ Party of Turkey (TIP), Sol members Chiara Stenger and Christoph Farwig, like many other socialists and anti-war activists from around […]

The Socialist Party, the England & Wales section of the CWI, organises caucuses of party members in most British trade unions. CWI trade unionists work as part of ‘broad left’ organisations wherever possible, collaborating with […]

En español Tasks for Revolutionaries and the Role of the CWI This document should be read alongside articles on the CWI website, socialistworld.net, and ‘What We Stand For’ statements and campaigning materials from CWI sections. […]

One Year After his Death Today marks the one year anniversary of the death of Peter Taaffe. Peter played an absolutely central role in the development of the CWI. From the preparatory years assembling the […]

En español The Committee for a Workers’ International, the CWI, founded in 1974, defends the central role of the working class – with support from all those oppressed by capitalism – in the struggle for […]

Preparing for the battles to come Almost 300 elected delegates and visitors attended the Socialist Party Congress. It was held in Coventry from 28 February to 2 March. Around half the people in the room […]

A national meeting of Sosialis Alternatif (SA) Malaysia, the CWI in Malaysia, was held from 16–18 January on Pangkor Island, off the coast of Perak in the Straits of Malacca. The discussions included several newly […]

A national meeting of New Socialist Alternative, the CWI in India, was held on 10 and 11 January in the city of Pune. Comrades from the Chennai and Pune branches took part in the discussions.  […]

Pressure forces Nigerian government to abandon sham trial of Adaramoye Michael Lenin and ten other #EndBadGovernance protesters charged with treason and terrorism Today, December 10, 2025, Justice Emeka Nwite of the Federal High Court Abuja […]

Arrested for protesting child labour and work-related child deaths On 1 December, members of the Private School Teachers’ Union and 17 student members of the Workers’ Party of Turkey (TİP) were arrested while protesting Turkey’s […]

A large proportion of the nearly 1,000 socialists at Socialism 2025 were young workers and students, many attending for the first time. The Socialism 2025 weekend, 15-16 November, in London brought together working-class campaigners, students […]

Today, September 2, 2025, marks exactly a year since the Tinubu government arraigned Adaramoye Michael Lenin and nine other #EndBadGovernance protesters over their role in the #EndBadGovernance protest, which took place between August 1 and […]

The following document on Asia was presented to the 14th World Congress of the Committee for a Workers’ International, as background information. The congress convened in Berlin, Germany, from 27 to 31 July 2025. Delegates attended […]

The following thesis on perspectives for European capitalism was agreed at the 14th World Congress of the Committee for a Workers’ International, which convened in Berlin, Germany, from 27 to 31 July 2025. Delegates attended in […]

The following thesis on perspectives for world capitalism was agreed at the 14th World Congress of the Committee for a Workers’ International, which convened in Berlin, Germany, from 27 to 31 July 2025. Delegates attended […]

“Marxists are always optimistic” – this sentence was quoted at the end of July at a rally in honour of the leading CWI comrade, Peter Taaffe, who died a few months ago. Over a hundred […]

Socialist Party Scotland and our forerunner, Militant, have a rich history of struggle within the labour and trade union movement, tracing our roots back to the early days of Trotsky’s International Left Opposition against Stalinism. […]

The 14th World Congress of the Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI) convened from July 27 to 31, 2025, in Berlin, bringing together delegates, ex-officio representatives, and international visitors from across the globe. There were […]

A new video commemorating the life and ideas of Peter Taaffe — international Trotskyist theoretician and lifelong fighter for socialism — is now available to watch online. The 18-minute film, produced following Peter’s death in April 2025, features […]

Equal pay for equal work! For several weeks now, non-medical staff, including canteen, garden, security, transport, logistics, cleaning and technical workers at Charité Facility Management (CFM) in Berlin, a subsidiary of Charité university hospital, the […]

‘Peter’s last meeting’ was the most special. Linda, Katie, Nancy and the rest of his family, our comrades and friends, put together a day that will never be forgotten by those of us who had […]

Protesting is Not a Crime! Defend free speech and the right to protest! Support activists targeted for protesting the genocide in Palestine! On Monday May 5th, Massachusetts College of Art and Design (MassArt) in Boston, US, […]

More members, new branches, successful struggles The fourth national conference of Socialist Organisation Solidarity (Sol) was a complete success. From 11 to 13 April, 130 members and guests from 20 locations came together. International guests […]

Below are three reports of recent successes won by Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales) members in union elections.   Victory for socialist Marco Tesei in University and College Union Left must organise to fight […]

Over the holiday period socialistworld.net will be posting less frequently. The normal posting schedule will restart from 2 January 2025.

The International Secretariat of the Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI) was very saddened to hear the news of the death of Lynn Walsh, who passed away late last Friday. For many years Lynn was […]

Hundreds of working-class activists, trade unionists and students poured into the workshops and rallies of Socialism 2024, held in central London, on 9-10 November to discuss how a fighting socialist opposition to Labour leader and […]

Alan Hardman was the first printer of the Militant (the predecessor newspaper of Socialist – weekly of the Socialist Party England & Wales (CWI)) and produced hundreds of political cartoons for publication in our party […]

The statement below was issued by the Workers’ Party of Argentina (PO, Partido Obrero). The CWI gives its solidarity to the PO, the piquetero movement and the working class and poor masses struggling against the […]

At the end of July, the CWI’s five-day European summer school took place in Berlin with over 140 comrades from England & Wales, Ireland, Scotland, the US, France, Austria and Germany. Over five days, political […]

In favour of a Marxist balance sheet of the CWI split A response to “The implosion of the ISA: Can the good traditions of the CWI be saved?” by Andros Payiatsos Andros Payiataos’s article on […]

We publish below a statement by five former members of ISA Austria, three of whom have recently joined the CWI and two of whom are discussing rejoining with the CWI. Anna Hiermann, Gerhard Ziegler and […]

Over the weekend of 8-9 June we held a Sol (Socialist Organisation Solidarity – CWI in Germany) educational seminar in Berlin, attended by over seventy comrades from 16 cities from all over Germany, as well […]

The International Socialist Alternative (ISA) is in a major crisis and on the brink of yet another split and further divisions. The immediate cause of the current crisis appears to have been the methods used […]

We publish below a greeting sent to the CWI from Carlos Moya, a veteran leader of the Chilean Socialist Party who remained in Chile following the coup in 1973 and was, for a period, the […]

A Socialist World is Possible – the History of the CWI, by Peter Taaffe, was originally published in 2004 on the thirtieth anniversary of the founding of the Committee for a Workers’ International to celebrate […]

Clare Doyle attended the founding conference of the CWI in 1974 and has played a key role in its development throughout its fifty years of existence, serving on the CWI’s leading body, the International Secretariat, […]

Over the weekend of 20-21 April 1974, a small but crucial international meeting took place in a room at the Old Mother Redcap pub in Camden, London. This meeting decided to launch a new revolutionary […]

The following document on perspectives for Europe was voted on and agreed by a meeting of the International Executive Committee of the Committee for a Workers’ International, which convened in London from 15-19 January 2024. […]

The following document was voted on and agreed by a meeting of the International Executive Committee of the Committee for a Workers’ International, which convened in London from 15-19 January 2024. Delegates to the IEC […]

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In Europe, as worldwide, we are in a period of multi-crisis – increasing polarisation of wealth and in politics, war and militarisation, climate emergency and the rising cost of living. All of these crises have […]

Internationalism in the 21st century and why only the working class can defeat the capitalist system and its wars, exploitation and other horrors, was the theme of a public rally hosted by the Committee for […]

“The impossible will become possible. The unlikely, likely. And all the old assumptions do not correspond to the new world era being born” –  The summer school of the Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI) […]

On 15/16 July, an international meeting was convened by a number of left organisations in Milan, Italy. Twenty-four organisations of diverse political tendencies meet and debated the international situation. The meeting included Trotskyists, anarchists, and […]

Eko John Nicholas, a member of the Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI in Nigeria), was arrested at a May Day rally, detained, and subjected to harassment and intimidation by operatives of Nigeria’s state intelligence service. The […]

Activists from the CWI protested at Argentinian embassies around the world, on 13 April, as part of an international day of action in defence of left activists, César Arakaki (a member of Partido Obrero) and […]

Activists from the Socialist Party, the CWI in England & Wales, protested outside the Argentinian embassy in central London on 13 April. The protest was responding to an international appeal in defence of left activists […]

An international day of protests and lobbies of Argentinean embassies are taking place on 13 April, the day of a court sentencing of left activists, Cesar Arakaki and Daniel Ruiz. Please urgently organise a protest […]

An international appeal has been made for protests and lobbies of Argentinean embassies on 13 April, the day of a court sentencing of left activists, Cesar Arakaki and Daniel Ruiz. Please urgently organise a protest […]

On January 19th, 2023, Seattle City Council member Kshama Sawant announced she will not seek reelection in 2024. She was one of the few socialists elected as an independent in the United States. Sawant’s initial […]

Originally published at the editorial of Socialism Today No.  265, magazine of the Socialist Party (CWI in England & Wales). As trade union activists in Britain were preparing for February’s escalation of the movement against […]

The following document on European perspectives was presented to and agreed upon at an International Executive Committee of the Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI) in-person meeting, held from 23-27 January 2023.  socialistworld.net Rapidly changing […]

socialistworld.net, the website of the Committee for a Workers’ International, will over the Christmas holiday period publish less frequently. Daily postings will resume during the first week of the New Year 2023. Socialistworld.net sends holiday […]

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 […]

On the initiative of members of the Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI), 40,000 people, mainly young people, demonstrated against racism in Brussels on 24 October 1992. This was the first international demonstration against the […]

October 2022 marks the thirtieth anniversary of the launch of Youth against Racism in Europe. The YRE in Britain played a leading role in the battles against the far-right British National Party (BNP) in the […]

On 18 August, an article suddenly appeared on the website of the Irish section of International Socialist Alternative (ISA), the organisation which split from the Committee for a Workers International (CWI) in 2019. This article, […]

The following is a statement by the International Secretariat of the Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI) on the new phase in the Ukraine war; a conflict that is partly a result of the intense […]

The Committee for a Workers International (CWI) held a very successful summer cadre school in London, from 29 July to 1 August, with comrades attending from all around the world. On Saturday evening, 30 July, […]

The Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI) ran a very successful cadre summer school from 29 July to 1 August, in London, with comrades attending from throughout Europe, Latin America, the USA, Asia, and Africa. […]

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 […]

The following statement by the International Secretariat (IS) of the Committee for a Workers International (CWI), looks at the main trends in the world today – economic, political, environmental, geopolitical and class relations – as […]

Europe is in the grip of a new wave of Covid, with the World Health Organisation predicting that, by next spring, two million will have died from the disease continent-wide. Whereas in the first wave […]

“The Impending Catastrophe and How to Combat It”, the title of an action programme that Lenin wrote just before the 1917 October revolution in Russia, precisely describes the current situation in much of the world. […]

The 13th congress of the Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI) took place from  22-25 January 2022. International travel difficulties because of covid restrictions meant that most comrades participated via zoom. Nevertheless, the congress was […]

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The Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales) is hosting Socialism 2021 this coming weekend  – the biggest in-person socialist event this year in Britain, which is also available to attend online. We need the chance […]

    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 […]

Thousands of people, especially the young, have taken to the streets across the world in opposition to the naked greed by the ruling elite and growing impoverishment of the mass of people. The chasm between […]

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 […]

Over the holiday period, socialistworld.net will be publishing less regularly. Normal posting will resume on the week starting 4 January 2021.  

The CWI’s International Executive Committee (IEC) met via Zoom over three days, from 13-15 November. Attended by over 80 comrades from Europe, Africa, Asia, Latin America, USA, Canada and other areas of the world, the […]

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 […]

Leading representatives of the Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI) met online over the weekend, 27/28 June. The International Executive Committee (IEC) meeting was attended by 70 comrades, from CWI sections from across the world. […]

Last year saw a split in and the re-foundation of the Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI), as outlined in ‘Rebuilding the CWI, Lessons and tasks‘. Since the July 2019 re-foundation conference, the debate which […]

The words of W.B Yeats, from his poem ‘Easter 1916’, sum up the current world situation: “All changed, changed utterly.” 2020 is the opening of a new era, as we have explained in the previous […]

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 […]

In this unprecedented time of the Covid-19 pandemic and rapid economic collapse, the Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI) believes that capitalism and the ruling classes cannot be trusted to defend and provide for the […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Essential debates facing Marxists and the Left today – socialism and ‘identity politics’; the role and character of trade unions and the working-class movement; the national question; and the programme needed to overcome oppression, austerity […]

‘Socialism 2019’, a weekend of discussion and debate, held in central London on 2 and 3 November, came as the parliamentary logjam finally burst apart into a general election. As Paula Mitchell told the opening […]

 “Even an entire society, a nation or all simultaneously existing societies taken together are not owners of the earth, they are simply its possessors, its beneficiaries, and have to bequeath it in an improved state […]

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 […]

The following world perspectives document was discussed, amended and passed by delegates and visitors at an international conference, held in London from July 22-25 2019, to reconstitute the Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI). Global […]

The archive pages linked below contain historic material by CWI sections and members that broke from the CWI in 2019. When the articles were originally published on socialistworld.net these organisations and individuals still stood on […]

At an historic meeting held in London between July 22nd and 25th over 200 delegates and visitors to an international conference of the International Faction, ‘In Defence of a Working Class Trotskyist CWI’ took the decision to […]

Like every year, International Workers’ Day was marked by protests and rallies in many countries around the world. Below is a collection of pictures featuring the CWI interventions in some of these countries.

The largest private sector strike in the U.S. in the past three years has ended. For eleven hard-fought days 31,000 Stop & Shop grocery-store workers across New England struck against company attacks on their wages […]

Bowing to weeks of mass protests and a deluge of workers’ strikes, Algeria’s senile and octogenarian President, Abdelaziz Bouteflika, resigned on Tuesday 2 April. This news has been received with huge enthusiasm and scenes of […]

Almost 2 months since he came to power, Jair Bolsonaro has confirmed all the worst expectations in relation to his government.

Bernie Sanders has formally launched his 2020 run for the US presidency, vowing to mount “an unprecedented and historic grassroots campaign that will begin with at least one million people from across the country.”

From 23rd to the 24th February, around 200 young people and workers from all the territories in Spain participated in the 19th Congress of the Student’s Union. In an electric atmosphere of struggle, enthusiasm and […]

 “Defeat the right in the ballot boxes and in the streets!”

Mass protest can force ministers to leave. After two months of protest, mainly pushed forward by young people, one of the four Belgian ministers responsible for climate had to resign. The Flemish regional minister, Joke […]

The platform of the new Social Democrat-Green government in Sweden, based on an agreement with two parties from the right-wing alliance parties (Centre and Liberals), is extremely neo-liberal and anti-working class. Now it is important […]

Strike claims a victory

Shutdown horror over: what now?

Last weekend, CWI Marxist Schools were held in Chile and Taiwan, discussing national and international perspectives and pressing issues facing the workers’ movement.

Igor Yashin, a leading member of Socialist Alternativa and Co-President of the Trade Union of Journalists and Media Workers, together with Nikolai Kretov, Dmitrii Borisenko and Mikhail Komrakov, who came to Igor’s assistance during his […]

4 participants in the annual “anti-fascist march” in Moscow were arrested today, including leading member of “Socialist Alternativa”, the Russian section of the CWI Igor Yashin. They will be held in police detention until Monday, […]

On Thursday, a reported 750,000 public sector workers went on a nationwide strike in Tunisia, called by the UGTT (General Union of Tunisian Workers, the main trade union organisation) against the pay freeze and other […]

The system of capitalism is in serious crisis. With massive inequality, impending climate catastrophe, and the loss of confidence in political institutions, it is clear that the foundations of the system are beginning to shake. […]

If there would be a European competition for the least stable government, it would be a very close run. The Belgian government made a move bringing it back to the front of this competition: in […]

The following articles are translations and adaptations of articles originally published in the blog of Socialismo Revolucionário (CWI in Portugal): https://socialismohoje.wordpress.com and concern the struggle of the dockers against precarious work in portuguese ports and […]

More people are concerned and anxious: the future of our planet is on the line. The recent IPCC-report claims we have only 12 years to avoid irreversible environmental disaster. Despite the warning signs, the political […]

Workers’ resistance must be stepped up!

On 27 October a successful conference, “Socialism and Feminism”, organised by Socialist Alternative (CWI), was held in Moscow. Over 50 people participated in lively discussions, linking the two main themes throughout the day.

How can we really defeat the right?

Socialist Alternative held its biggest ever National Convention on October 20-22. Over 300 socialists from across the country gathered in Chicago to talk about the crisis of global capitalism, the rising wave of labor struggle, […]

#MeToo hit the tech world as hundreds, possibly thousands, of Google employees, led by women, organized a historic walkout from work on November 1 at 11:10 AM. Spurred by a October 25 New York Times […]

Against Bolsonaro, defend democratic rights and smash the pension reform!

On Saturday morning, 27 October, a man shouting anti-Semitic slogans opened fire at the Tree of Life Synagogue in the historically Jewish Squirrel Hill neighbourhood, in Pittsburgh. Eleven people were killed during the morning shabbat […]

For the second time this year, workers took to the streets in a massive show of collective strength. The 23 October rally saw more than 100,000 people bring central Melbourne to a standstill, demanding that […]

On Monday, October 22, the largest trade union in Finland – JHL – launched a two-day political strike against the right-wing government’s proposal to make it easier to sack workers in companies with 10 or […]

Socialists affiliated with the Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI) met in Sri Lanka in mid-October to discuss politics and class struggle in the Asia Pacific region.

Following the elections on 7 October, Brazil is in great danger from the point of view of millions of workers, peasants, youth, women, black and indigenous people, LGBT people and all the exploited and oppressed.

Despite the rain, nine regional demonstrations in Belgium on 2 October mobilised 65,000 in protest against the right-wing Michel government. Although the previous attacks on our pensions and living standards have not yet been digested, […]

The last days of one of the most turbulent election campaigns in recent Brazilian history are clearly showing the political polarisation in the country.

Following a recent documentary on a Flemish language TV station in Belgium, widespread disgust and anger roared through society. The documentary exposed the fact that some students were organising a group along the lines of […]

For mass demonstrations to stop Kavanaugh!

On 9 September, the Social Democrats in Sweden had their worst election result for more than 100 years. The main right-wing party, the Moderates, did even worse. The racist Sweden Democrats increased their vote to […]

Socialist strategy needed

Turkey held snap elections on 24 June, out of which the ruling AKP and President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan arose seemingly triumphant. But at the heart of Erdoğan’s decision to call an earlier vote was his […]

The day Russia unexpectedly won its first game in the football world cup tournament the government announced a major attack on the pension system. For some time, leading figures in the government have spoken about […]

Shipyard workers in the Croatian port cities of Pula and Rijeka started their strike action on 22 August. These militant workers are demanding the immediate payment of wage arrears. But they don’t stop there. After […]

Australia saw yet another change of prime minister in late August. After a week of high drama, the Liberal Party booted put prime minister Malcolm Turnbull from office and installed Scott Morrison in a ‘party […]

Report of second plenary session at the 2018 CWI School in Barcelona

10 years after 2007/8 crisis, capitalism has solved nothing

Portuguese dockers took strike action across all ports on Friday 27 July. They are fighting against widespread persecution and union busting in Portuguese ports, especially in Leixões and Caniçal (Madeira), where workers are being threatened […]

More than 80 deaths, including children and babies, and more than 150 injured.  Dozens of people made homeless and an incalculable destruction of forests and forestry land. This is, so far, the result of the […]

“First they came for the communists…” In May word spread in Poland of a police “visit” to an academic conference “Karl Marx 2018” organized at the Szczecin University holiday centre in the village of Pobierowo. […]

17 July. 18.30h. Cotxeres de Sants, Barcelona

On Wednesday, June 27, the Supreme Court issued its long awaited decision in the case of Janus v. AFSCME. This ruling is a bold escalation in the ongoing campaign by the right to clear the […]

In what can only be described as a political earthquake, left-wing insurgent Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez defeated incumbent and Queens Democratic Party boss Joe Crowley by 15 percent in the primary for New York’s 14th Congressional District. […]

Below is the translation of an interview first published on www.sozialismus.info, the website of the SAV (German section of the CWI). 

Only days after passing a tax on Amazon and big business in Seattle, corporate politicians repealed the ordinance. Socialists always emphasise that while we must fight to tax the rich, this will always be fiercely […]

General elections in Turkey, originally scheduled for November 2019, are taking place on June 24. These will consist of both parliamentary and presidential contests, held together.

President Alassane Dramane Ouattara (ADO) has been in power in Côte d’Ivoire for the last 8 years. During the presidential election campaign of 2010, he promised an improvement in the social conditions of the country’s […]

On Wednesday, 6 June, our comrade, Tohil Delgado, former general secretary of the Sindicato de Estudiantes (SE) [Student Union] and member of the Izquierda Revolucionaria (Revolutionary Left – CWI in Spanish state), will sit in […]

Six months after a huge trade union demonstration with 40,000 in Brussels, a new demonstration mobilised two times as many on Wednesday 16 May: 80,000. The anger against previously taken measures and new plans of […]

Upwards of 60,000 people hit the streets of Melbourne, on May 9, in the biggest union protest in over a decade. Some estimates put the figure in excess of 100,000. Seeing the streets flooded with […]

On May 14, the Seattle City Council passed a historic tax on Amazon and other big corporations to fund permanently affordable, publicly owned housing. The driving force behind this victory was the strength of our […]

Empty classrooms and over 100,000 on the streets in general student strike called by the Sindicato de Estudiantes (SE) and Libres y Combativas, the socialist feminist platform of SE and Izquierda Revolucionaria (CWI in Spanish […]

Kristofer Lundberg, a leading member of Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (Socialist Justice), was recently elected as leader of the Tenants’ Union in West Sweden. The union has 77,000 members, organised in 13 districts, in six cities, including […]

Militant strikes and mass demonstrations of tens of thousands of teachers, students and community supporters have spread like a wildfire across the states of West Virginia, Kentucky, Arizona, and Oklahoma since the end of February […]

Donald Trump’s administration is gearing up for another possible round of missile strikes against regime targets in Syria. This could trigger an explosive chain of events potentially leading to a more serious military conflagration between […]

  Denmark  by Per-Åke Westerlund, Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (CWI in Sweden)  A big strike and lockout in the public sector in Denmark has just been postponed by the mediators. The public sector unions had announced strike […]

Since the end February/early March 9 day strike by teachers and school staff in West Virginia teachers’ strikes and protests have taken place in Jersey City, Phoenix. Now there are “wildcat”, unofficial strikes taking place […]

The threat of a bill banning abortion in cases of fetal malformation has been suddenly put into effect by the right-wing PiS (Law and Justice) dominated Sejm (parliament) . This met with an angry demonstration […]

The March for Our Lives was one of the single biggest days of protest in U.S. history. With hundreds of thousands in D.C., and tens of thousands in major cities across the country, there were […]

There were no shock headlines as the votes for Russia’s new President were counted. The Kremlin had called for a 70% vote for Vladimir Putin, with a 70% turnout. As it turned out, the Central […]

“If democracy is to be successfully fostered across the Muslim world, especially in Arab countries, it is vital to encourage this Turkish exemplar.” Fourteen years ago, these were the words of ‘The Economist’, referring to […]

From mourning to struggle

CWI member, Zahid Baloch, is now in a refugee prison in Trandum, Norway. We visited him on 14 March. It was only yesterday that we received information about Zahid’s whereabouts, after a week without any […]

“Until they sign it, shut it down!” chanted West Virginia teachers from all 55 counties across the state at a demonstration in the capitol building on the eighth day of an illegal strike. The teachers, […]

A three day strike took place over large parts of Ethiopia, earlier this week, against the attempted imposition of a state of emergency by the EPRDF regime. At a protest demonstration in Stockholm, organised by […]

Last year we saw, with the #MeToo movement, an international revolt against sexism. Women all over the world spoke out against powerful men abusing their social position to force unwilling women to have sex with […]

We are entering a new age of struggle for women’s liberation! You only have to open a newspaper, log on to social networks, turn on the TV or go out on to the streets to […]

In Sweden, #MeToo has found a widespread echo and has been widely organised sector-by-sector. Actors led the way last year with their petition using the hashtag #tystnadtagning – Swedish for “Lights, cameras, action!” which can […]

Socialist Alternative in the US has published special material for International Women’s Day 2018 in the March edition of its newspaper. This includes a detailed analysis of the mass movements of the ‘60s and ‘70s’ […]

Eastern Goutha, outside Damascus, is “hell on earth”, according to UN chief, Antonio Guterres. The day after the UN decision to organise a ceasefire, bombing continued. A doctor interviewed by the BBC says his hospital […]

As we publish this, walkouts have been held in schools across the country in solidarity with students in Parkland, Florida. Hundreds of high school students walked out, marched, and rallied in Florida, Maryland, Arizona, Illinois, […]

Zahid Baloch is a political refugee and torture victim from Baluchistan and a member of Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (CWI Sweden). He was arrested at an “internal border inspection” in Gothenburg on Thursday, 15 February.

Today, at ten minutes past eleven, an aircraft left Moscow for Germany. On board was Ali Feruz, his partner, his lawyer and a representative of the Red Cross, which has arranged the necessary documents for […]

Once again, a presidential election in Russia looms and for the fifth time since 2000 there is a simple choice; either Putin or one of the other candidates, none of whom has a chance of […]

For unity in the struggle against attacks without stopping to build a new Left Socialist alternative

Below is a new introduction for the publication in Spanish of ‘France 1968 – Month of Revolution’ by Clare Doyle. This book describes and analyses the dramatic events of 50 years ago in France. Marxists […]

Members and supporters of the CWI across the world are calling for the release of our Sudanese comrade Mohamed Satti as well as of the hundreds of other protesters, political campaigners and journalists who have […]

The publication of Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House by Michael Wolff shook up the political terrain before the book was even released. Trump is no stranger to bizarre tweets, but his twitter […]

Nine years ago, in the centre of Moscow, a lawyer, Stanislav Markelov, and journalist, Anastasia Baburova, were both murdered by fascist thugs. They had been known for their anti-fascist activities and Stanislav was an activist […]

  The explosion of protests that broke out this week against the new Finances Law (budget law) 2018, a battery of measures against the working and middle classes, has again put into perspectives the liberal […]

A large number of Iranian students have been arrested during the crackdown by the Iranian regime following the outbreak of nationwide protests in Iran. Most of the students were active in the students’ unions or […]

Build a mass women’s movement

Before the seasonal holidays began in Sweden, an historic strike against the deportation of refugees was organised. On December 12, at 12 o’clock, school students across the country – from Boden in the north to […]

On December 14, 2017 the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted to give internet providers, such as Comcast and Verizon, the power to give preferential treatment to web content producers of their choosing. Under the current […]

Socialistworld.net will be posting less frequently during the holiday period, returning to normal publication on 3 January 2018. We extend season’s greetings to all our readers.

The killing of former Yemeni President, Ali Abdullah Saleh, by Houthi fighters in the capital, Sana’a, earlier this month has led to an intensification of the war in that country, magnifying an already extreme humanitarian […]

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

The October socialist Revolution in Russia was met with enthusiasm from workers and the oppressed around the world. Not least in neighbouring Finland which was under Russian control since 1809. It was a large principality […]

Thousands of people gathered around the country this morning to watch the ABS chief statistician announce the results of the Australian marriage law postal survey. There was a huge turnout with 79.5% of eligible participants […]

Organising to fight back

Socialism is rising again

Bolshevik ideas will change the world!

The proclamation of the Catalan Republic by the Catalan parliament provoked an immediate, furious response from the Spanish ruling class, state, and PP government as well as from Ciudadanos (right wing Spanish nationalist Party) and […]

24 October 1992. Young people from all over Europe arrive in Brussels to demonstrate against racism and fascism. At the front of the demonstration, organised by Youth Against Racism in Europe (YRE), are thousands of […]

Ryan Timlin, a member of Socialist Alternative and longtime labor activist, ran recently for president of Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) Local 1005, representing Transit Workers in Minneapolis. Ryan won unopposed and therefore is now the […]

It was announced today that the New Zealand Labour Party has agreed to go into coalition government with the Greens and the rightwing, populist NZ First party.

As we approach the 100th anniversary of the October revolution in Russia, this world-historic event is largely being ignored by the Putin regime and mass media. If the revolution that ushered in the first workers’ […]

In the United States city of Minneapolis, Socialist Alternative member Ginger Jentzen’s City Council campaign is shaking the political establishment to its core. Running on a strong socialist platform, Ginger is fighting for bold policies […]

2017 marks the 100-year anniversary of what became known as the ‘Great Strike’ in Australia. Sometimes referred to as the ‘New South Wales General Strike’, this huge upheaval actually spread to all the eastern states […]

Shortly before the New Zealand election in September, the New Zealand Labour Party replaced its previous leader with the much more popular Jacinda Ardern. This led to an outpouring of support for Labour, dubbed ‘Jacindamania’. […]

Below are just a few photos and a report from CWI supporters in various cities around the world, in solidarity with the struggle of workers and young people in Catalonia for their right to self-determination and […]

Trump’s regime is unpredictable and deeply reactionary. In just a few months, he has threatened disastrous war while carrying out attacks on immigrants, LGBTQ people, the environment, women’s rights, and health care – just to […]

20,000 demonstrators block march of Nordic Resistance Movement

150,000 youth march in Barcelona, shouting “this is what happened under Franco!”

Australians are being asked in a plebescite held by the federal government: ‘Should the law be changed to allow same-sex couples to marry?’

The strike call of the Sindicato de Estudiantes in Catalonia for Thursday 28th September is winning massive support. Today a press conference of the Sindicato de Estudiantes and PODEMOS was held at the national parliament […]

After months of promising Dreamers that they had nothing to worry about and that he had a “big heart,” Trump sent out arch-reactionary AG Jeff Sessions to announce the repeal of DACA (Deferred Action for […]

The policies of Poland’s ruling ‘Law and Justice’ party, over the last two years, have thrown up one protest movement after another across the country. While largely maintaining its base of support among section of […]

On 26 September Ali Feruz will be returned to a Moscow court where a decision on his deportation will be reviewed. This follows the earlier decision to suspend the deportation of Ali to Uzbekistan, where […]

Hurricane Harvey is a historic tragedy affecting millions of people. Socialist Alternative wishes to express our deepest solidarity to all those who have lost loved ones or homes, and will face hardship for weeks to […]

On Saturday August 19, one week after the events of Charlottesville, Virginia, 40,000 people marched and rallied against an alt-right “free speech” protest in the Boston Common. Boston has demonstrated to the rest of the […]

Mass demonstrations and a left alternative needed to fight the right

Introduction to China Commission at CWI Summer School 2017

Scotland, the Spanish state, Ireland and beyond…

On Friday morning, members of Militant-CI (CWI sympathisers in Côte d’Ivoire) helped phone booth sellers (known in local French as « cabiniers » or « gérants de cabine ») to stage a protest in front […]

Entreme Right and reformist Left in crisis

Two ministers sacked, no change of policies

Urgent action needed to save Ali Feruz

New parties, reformism and the role of the CWI

“The whole of Europe is a lake of petrol waiting for the match.”

22 July unification congress unanimously approves unification document and incorporation of IR into CWI

Attacks will continue – Medicare for All!

“This has been the biggest school the CWI has ever organised”, said Peter Taaffe from the International Secretariat of the Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI), when opening (together with Juan Ignacio Ramos, general secretary […]

During last week’s CWI Summer School, in Barcelona, the following petition was signed by 280 attendees: Against the victimisation of Dionysis Christopoulos, trade union activist at the Athens municipality We, the undersigned, taking part in […]

CWI and Izquierda Revolucionaria hold successful rally in defence of the October Revolution The international rally organised on 19 July by Izquierda Revolucionaria and the CWI was a massive success. More than 600 workers, youth […]

In early March, a group of Duma Deputies from the ruling United Russia party proposed amending the law “on the status of the Russian Federation’s capital”. The aim of this is to give the Moscow […]

The Australian Coalition government’s first budget since the 2016 federal election is a clear attempt to reset the political agenda. In 2014 the government attempted to introduce a raft of austerity measures, but many of […]

Trump’s firing of FBI Director James Comey last week has led to a spiralling political crisis in Washington. The sharp divisions in the political establishment and within the state apparatus have become even sharper due […]

When New Democracy (Greece’s traditional right-wing party) and PASOK (the so-called “socialists”) were applying austerity policies, arguing that these were the way to a new period of prosperity, the mass of working class people were […]

          Greece’s agony continues. This week, more pension cuts and tax increases were agreed by the Syriza-led government and international creditors, in return for €7.5bn emergency loans to enable Athens to […]

On 28 April, the Brazilian working class gave a clear sign of its strength and ability to mobilise.

The Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI) sends solidarity greetings to workers, young people and all those exploited by capitalism around the world. We extend revolutionary greetings to all those in struggle. We stand shoulder […]

Reports of gay men being detained, tortured and killed by officials under the control of Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov, have hit headlines around the world and provoked anger and protests from LGBT, democratic rights and […]

Big business and DFL establishment join forces…Don’t Let Corporate Cash Buy this Election!

On Sunday 16 April, Turkey went through the most controversial and questionable referendum in its history. The constitutional amendments which were to give President Erdogan dictatorial powers, including the authority to dissolve the parliament, were […]

CWI members from the International Secretariat, Spain, Portugal, Scotland and Belgium are currently participating in an historic congress, of Izquierda Revolucionaria in Spain. This represents a key step forward in the unification of IR´s forces […]

No support for Trump or Assad – For workers’ unity.Working people in the U.S. and around the world were understandably horrified by the images of children dying from Sarin gas in Idlib, Syria. It is […]

Shock quickly followed by strong showing of solidarity.We condemn in the strongest possible terms the horrific suspected terrorist attack on Drottninggatan in Stockholm last Friday, 7 April. Four people were killed and 15 others injured. […]

Open letter to Reuters, on behalf of 115 security guards previously working for TOTAL and G4S in Yemen. Regarding: The article “Guards’ pay dispute with Total, G4S evokes Yemen’s economic misery” published by Reuters on […]

Vote ‘NO’ gains momentumIf the referendum called by the Justice and Development Party (AKP) government results in a ‘NO’ (‘HAYIR’) vote, on 16 April, it will be a massive blow to the regime and a […]

Despite very difficult times, struggle can bring results. Over the past two to three weeks much publicity was given to the attempts of the Swedish multinational clothing company H&M (Hennes & Mouritz) to force its employees […]

Over 30 protests around the world and 88 MPs/MEPs pledge support. The #JobstownNotGuilty international day of action on 23 March was a huge success.

New spring of protest opens up, as 1,000s arrested. Two neighbouring countries, Belarus and Russia, have seen significant mass protests over last weekend.

For a one-day general strike as the next step. 15 March was a national day of struggle and paralysis throughout Brazil against anti-worker reforms applied by the illegitimate government of Michel Temer. This was the most […]

Kshama Sawant, Socialist Alternative councillor, speaks.Sisters and Brothers, in just five weeks, Donald Trump has unleashed a series of vicious attacks on one group of Americans after another: From his Muslim ban to the ramping […]

What is behind Trump’s attack? “You see what happened last night in Sweden.? Sweden!…Who could believe it? Sweden.” Those comments in typical Trump style, made in a speech in Melbourne, Florida, Friday 10 February, have caused […]

Support the international solidarity campaign. Below we publish the text of a statement of solidarity with the #JobstownNotGuilty campaign, signed by Jean-Luc Mélenchon, European United Left Member of European Parliament, among many other prominent European public […]

Time to build the class struggle on the streets. The attempt to remove Pablo Iglesias from the leadership of Podemos (the left party formed out of the 2011 Indignados movement) has been a complete and utter […]

Escalate the resistance toward shutdowns on March 8 and May 1! Donald Trump and his bigoted, billionaires-club administration have ignited a social explosion unlike any that has ever greeted an incoming US president.

The struggle continues! After many months of struggle, the redundant cleaners at OSY (Athens Bus Company) managed to get the bulk of their accrued money from the company. This is a very important victory which shows […]

Joint declaration of the CWI’s IEC and Izquierda Revolucionaria’s IEC. In September 2016, we published a brief declaration after holding an initial meeting between our two organisations – a very fruitful meeting which revealed a […]

New movements for change will need to arm themselves with the lessons of the Syrian tragedy. The military victory in Aleppo by Assad’s regime and its foreign backers was a turning point in the war […]

Establishment deeply divided as mass resistance explodes.  One of the most reactionary, bigoted and predatory Administrations in modern history has officially taken office. The incoming Trump Presidency, from the vicious tweets to the bizarre press […]

For unified struggle for women’s rights and against capitalism. Socialist alternative, the Russian section of the CWI, took part in an “individual picket” outside the State Duma (Parliament) on 17th January to protest against the first […]

Reports from mass women’s marches against Trump. Below we post the editorial from this week’s issue of the Socialist, paper of the Socialist Party (CWI in England & Wales) following the mass anti-Trump demonstrations last weekend, […]

Public sector strike and soldiers’ mutiny expose reality behind “economic growth”. Côte d’Ivoire is currently going through a period of heavy social turmoil. The year had started well for the ruling regime, with the anouncement of […]

Photo gallery selection of CWI actions during weekend of mass protests. Donald Trump’s inauguration saw millions take to the streets of cities across the US and worldwide, on Friday 20 January, and especially on Saturday 21st. […]

Socialist council member speaks. Donald Trump is now Predator in Chief, and head of one of the most dangerous and right wing administrations in U.S. history.

CWI organizes protests as millions prepare to fight Trump’s agenda. On January 20 and 21, as Donald Trump will be marching into the White House to become the new President of the United States,  millions of […]

6 CWI members expelled in undemocratic attack

New revolts brewing. “How do you expect me to make a living?” was the reported cry of then 27 year-old Mohamed Bouazizi when he soaked himself with gasoline, before pouring himself on fire on December 17, […]

Important precedent for using city bonding authority to build homes. Housing activists in Seattle, organized into the Coalition to Build 1,000 Homes, scored a major victory, winning $29 million for affordable housing in the 2017-2018 budget. […]

Discussion at Socialism conference in Tel Aviv

Workers need for own party, independent of corporate cash

Mass resistance needed!

Inauguration protests can serve as a launching pad for a massive grassroots resistance to Donald Trump’s new administration

Solidarity with workers and their families! Justice for the slain employees!

Protest around the world on Trump’s inauguration, January 20 and 21

Protest over unpaid wages and for direct employment!

Report of first session of the CWI International Executive Committee, discussing World Relations

Inspiring meeting attended by over 90 comrades from over 35 countries

Perspectives documents agreed by November CWI international meeting

Authorities agree to re-route oil pipeline

Solidarity in defence of CWI members and symphthisers

Mass student strikes force PP government to retreat

Escalation of the struggle needed to overthrow repressive regime. The streets and public squares of Sudan’s major cities have been left looking deserted from their usual traffic and pedestrian frenzy as the country was shaken […]

United workers’ struggle only antidote against Erdoğan’s rule

We must prepare massive resistance!

In less than 24 hours, 40,000 people answered our call

A Presidency of chaos and struggle

Polls showed that Donald Trump was the most hated Presidential candidate in the history of this country. Yet the Wall Street, Wal-Mart, warmonger Clinton couldn’t defeat him…

Whoever wins tomorrow will enter office facing unprecedented levels of popular hostility

Urgent appeal to demand their immediate release

Draft documents for November CWI international meeting

Letter from Côte d’Ivoire Agencement workers. On 17 October, 50 workers from a building company called ‘Côte d’Ivoire Agencement’ (CIA) were sacked by their bosses with their last month’s wage unpaid. With the full support of […]

CWI sections in 25 countries organise active solidarity and support

Change through mass struggle  – a new party should act as an organizing and for solidarity

Law and Justice ruling party retreats over abortion bill

After elections, explosive struggles will provide opportunities to win victories for working people

Mass disillusionment with political system but gains for PSOL left

Women want a real choice

Request for messages and protests in solidarity with fight in defense of public education

Liberal government and Labor opposition join forces to pass A$6.3 billion austerity measures

Meeting between organisations reveals important common ground

Time for the unions and social movements to push back

Temer out! General elections now! General strike to defend our rights!

Struggle achieves public contracts for 100s cleaning workers

Decades of ‘shock therapy capitalism’, wars and corruption

Support Jill Stein

Political polarisation deepens

Capitalist crisis and anti-immigrant reaction

We need a new party of the 99% to defeat the billionaire class

The straw that broke the camel’s back!

Walk out from the Democratic National Convention!

Continent enters new phase of political and economic crises

Chinese methods against Marxists copied by Belgian authorities

No to military rule, no to Erdogan’s rule! For a workers’ alternative!

Time to back Green candidate Jill Stein

Mass mobilisation and struggle necessary for real change

Highest levels recorded against Eurozone and EU membership following Brexit

To fight anti-working class measures, we must build a socialist alternative

No to war and terror! Yes to workers’ unity and solidarity!

Still not with her

Orlando – massive wave of solidarity with LGBTQ community

Surge in support for petition initiated by socialist councillor Kshama Sawant

Stand with our LGBTQ Sisters and Brothers! Fight back against Scapegoating & Islamophobia!

“The cup is full !”

Strike action wins major concessions from contractors and bus administration

Militant strike action blocks bosses attempts to undermine collective bargaining

"Triple-oppressed workers – immigrants, women and low-paid – show way forward"

LSR (CWI) forces participation highlighted

Protest and solidarity messages needed

How should the labour and social movements respond?

The impeachment process and historic crisis of the PT (Workers’ Party)

Court declares strike ‘lawful’

Collapse of oil prices expose fragile foundations of oil Gulf monarchies

Political foundations laid for new branches and growth in other Nordic countries

Call for two national demonstrations, building towards general strikes

What we cannot do: leave the dockers alone

Workers resist inhuman working conditions and violation of working rights

Second action plan needed to stop the Michel government

Why we need new party of the 99%

Protests and a new spontaneous movement for abortion rights erupt

Free all arrested students now

Inequality, war and insecurity show the urgency of the struggle for socialism

Hired thugs beat rank and file trade union protesters

15,000 demonstrate

Antiracists arrested while the far right can demonstrate

For the unity of Turkish and Kurdish working classes

Action by far-right led hooligans last Sunday in Brussels

Oppose terrorism, war and poverty

Dilma’s government brought to brink of collapse

Continuing the Political Revolution

Crises for refugees – and the EU – continues

Bernie’s political revolution will be strangled if it remains imprisoned within the corporate-controlled Democratic Party.

Huge enthusiasm for Bernie Sanders’ call for a political revolution leads to serious challenge to Hillary Clinton

“All together, workers and poor farmers, at Syntagma Square, against austerity”

Huge potential for workers’ struggles

Build a #Movement4Bernie to Defeat the Billionaire Class and the Democratic Party Establishment.

A socialist approach

Renewed economic crisis, wars, political polarisation & class struggle perspectives

All out in the struggle! Coordinate and develop the fight now!

Opportunities will arise for working class and poor to organise

CWI 11th World Congress document

Bernie Sanders’ call for a political revolution against the billionaire class enthuses millions

Another healthcare system failure

“It’s too late for establishment politics, establishment economics!”

Solidarity campaign needed!

Solidarity message from the Committee for a Workers’ International

Five years after the fall of Ben Ali, demands of the revolution remain unsatisfied

Kshama Sawant replies to Obama’s "State of the Union" speech

The EU’s nightmare continues

No government majority as Podemos partially recovers

Human beings have radically altered the Earth, adapting nature in the struggle to survive and thrive…

“It’s really a fraud, a fudge without action”

Good response for ideas of CWI

Dictatorship consolidating while opposition ridicules itself. Time to “turn the page”!

Sharp right-wing turn by “red-green” government

Biggest ever global mobilisation

Political crisis continues

For general assemblies in all workplaces

Syriza mobilises… against Syriza!

It is time to build a new united left force

Socialist alternative to big business popular across the USA

Kshama Sawant’s message to ’Socialism 2015’ event in London

The established political order in the US has been shaken up by Bernie Sanders’ campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination…

A geopolitical weapon for US and Japanese capitalism against China

"There has never been a better time to become a socialist and join Socialist Alternative." – Kshama Sawant

Parliament moves to the right

Economic crisis deepens in Russia as Ukraine military stand-off continues

Towards a ‘Left’ government?

Increased racist violence, but solidarity dominates

Anti-austerity struggles across southern Europe and the socialist alternative

What way forward for the Left and workers’ movement?

Trade unions’ 48 hour general strike must be first step to building mass, united movement against murderous regime of Erdoğan

Nationalism, repression and neoliberal economic ‘reform’ hallmarks of Xi’s rule

Seattle City Councillor Kshama Sawant co-signs protest letter to visiting Chinese President Xi

Mass socialist alternative needs to be built

A lesser evil?

Mass revolutionary Left needed to find way out of crisis of capitalist system

Build a mass and united workers’ movement to stop the ongoing war!

New Left force launched following Tsipras’ betrayal

Report of discussion on New Workers’ Parties, Left Populism and the ideas and programme of PODEMOS, SYRIZA

Seattle socialist primary election success

After Syriza capitulates, taking first steps towards building a new mass Left alternative to austerity and capitalism

Report of World Perspectives discussion at the 2015 CWI Summer School

Kshama Sawant, Seattle’s socialist councillor defending seat in primary elections on 4 August

Kurdish and Turkish people pay price for Erdoğan’s support for ISIS

No to the dictatorship of banks and big business – For a socialist Europe!

Time for a new, mass revolutionary Left to oppose all austerity!

Referendum earthquake sees working class boldly defy Troika and Greece’s servile ruling class!

Vote ‘No’! For a mass working class campaign to oppose Troika and for socialist policies!

For a renewed mass movement against poverty and terror

On Sunday 5 July, we say “no” to the gang of the lenders!

Troika must be defied – No more cuts! Don’t pay the debt! Socialist policies would win huge backing from Greek workers

What should the SYRIZA Left do next?

SYRIZA Left must vote against cave-in deal with Troika and act in interests of workers!

Plan an anti-austerity fight-back, with socialist policies!

Reinstate Marzeni now – Solidarity needed!

What future for the HDP?

A year after ISIS captured Mosul, the jihadist group controls about half of Syria and a third of Iraq – more territory than ever before

Appeal for international solidarity action on 25 June

Workers and poor cannot take more calamitous austerity

How a community defeated the East-West toll road

Break with the austerity – adopt a socialist programme!

Learn from the struggle, as new opportunities open up

Growing protests against vicious treatment of local community self-defence activist

The fire that Renault workers set alight at Bursa is unlikely to extinguish soon

‘Cotton On’ clothes retailer workers defeat attempt to remove rest and meal breaks

The choices before the Greek working class

Workers’ common front, north and south, can find solution to island’s division

Local community direct action secures victory

Campaign needs to build independent political power