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. As we […]
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 […]
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. Crucially, this […]
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 […]
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 socialist revolution. […]
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 […]
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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 […]
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