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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Over the last three years Ethiopia has been experiencing great social and political unrest, with people protesting almost all over the country. They have grown tired of injustice, abuse, killings and arrests. People have been […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The Danish right-wing government wants crimes committed in poor housing areas, which the government contemptuously denotes as “ghettos”, to be punished twice as hard as elsewhere. The proposal is part of a battery of actions […]
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 […]
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.
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 […]
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 […]
20,000 demonstrators block march of Nordic Resistance Movement
Two ministers sacked, no change of policies
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. […]
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 […]
Discussion at Socialism conference in Tel Aviv
Desperate regime responds with massive repression. More than 500 people have been killed by Ethiopian state forces and thousands jailed. But this massive repression has not, however, stopped the growing mass revolt in Ethiopia. In […]
Political foundations laid for new branches and growth in other Nordic countries
CWI’s programme explained
Protesters stay on streets after forcing PM’s resignation
Crises for refugees – and the EU – continues
Crisis for imperialism and a fight-back from below
The EU’s nightmare continues
“It’s really a fraud, a fudge without action”
Good response for ideas of CWI
Sharp right-wing turn by “red-green” government
Biggest ever global mobilisation
Increased racist violence, but solidarity dominates
30,000 join Helsinki union demonstration
A struggle against outsourcing
Eurozone’s QE intensifies currency wars
United struggle needed against right-wing policies
“We must fight entire right-wing politics”
“Peace deal” between government and right-wing opposition
Right-wing alliance relied on racist party to defeat budget
CWI success, defended four council seats
Optimistic Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna prepares for elections
Knife attack after 8 March demonstration
Informe del debate sobre Europa en la última reunión del Comité Ejectivo Internacional del CIT
Violent attack from neo-nazis gets massive reply
Report of the discussion on Europe at the recent meeting of the CWI’s International Executive Committee
Massive and evident fraud sees right-wing claim victory in Presidential elections
Populist, anti-immigrant parties aim to exploit anti-EU mood in May elections
Need for struggle against cuts and unemployment
Racist-populist ’Progress Party’ now to be in government
Sosialistinen Vaihtoehto public meeting on socialist alternative
“No to war!", "No to Big Brother Obama!"
Sweden once had a reputation as some kind of ‘social-democratic model’ with far-reaching public services and social support. But that has been dismantled by two decades of attacks – what the Economist magazine calls a […]
Neo-liberalism and police violence have created social time-bomb
Increasing concerns and contradictions
Review of The Second World War, by Antony Beevor
Optimism and new targets at Gothenburg Congress
IMF and World Bank reduce growth predictions
Debates in the Red Green Alliance over budget support
Towards a new turn?
“We were convinced by Militant members to launch a paper”
Bobby Seale as guest speaker
CWI supporter Zhang Shujie and other activists took to the streets when Wen Jiabao visited Stockholm and Gothenburg
“Up to half of all Icelandic families are bankrupt”
Climate activists and socialists win court battle over police brutality at 2009 climate change summit
Neo-Nazis attempt to exploit street gang violence fails
Months of grassroots revolt shows way forward for impoverished masses
President announces 60-day state of emergency
“We are against the crisis programmes for Greece, Portugal etc”
Protest storm against venture capitalists and politicians
Anti-racist demo in Malmö
‘A life and death struggle’
Regime unleashes counter-revolutionary violence
Red-Green Alliance trebles its vote
Interest among people to organize has increased
Defend the right to asylum!
CWI participates worldwide – rebuild May Day’s fighting traditions!
President Saleh refused to attend ceremony in Saudi Arabia
May Day next day of mass protests
Protests in 20 cities
Masses cannot trust official opposition – Workers and youth need socialist alternative
“Democratic” government increases repression
Major conflicts within the regime
‘Women’s Struggle against the Right’ organises demonstration on International Women’s Day
Regular protests planned for Tuesdays
General strike in Iranian-Kurdistan
Protests continue in Kurdistan
Protests in Iraqi-Kurdistan and across Sunni and Shia areas
Day of uprising inspired by Egypt
From CWI Sweden
IMF summit fiasco
“Organise common struggle”
Complete failure for Social Democratic-Green “opposition”
12 June marks the first anniversary of the mass revolt that shook the Islamic Republic of Iran; a people’s revolt against the regime.
Hundredth anniversary of International Women’s Day
The struggle against the dictatorship continues
“Our planet, not your profits!”
Almost 1,000 arrested, only three of them charged
Great response to socialist ideas
"Tremendous recognition of he party’s long and hard work"
Resolution adopted at the congress of Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna
Government gives in to EU pressure for further austerity
Interview with exiled socialist students
Copenhagen climate summit a focus for the party
Climate change threatens the future of humanity
The Rise and Fall of the ‘Swedish Model’
Crisis demands action
European Union fear acute political crisis
Union leaders told to “wake up!”
IMF and EU’s poisonous “medicine”
“This is a major victory!”
For defence of jobs and working conditions!
IMF and EU blackmail means misery for workers
For a new workers’ party!
Refugees confront representatives of murderous regime
Community revulsion at attack on well known socialist campaigner
Militant action gets results
CWI speaks to left-wing students in country devastated by capitalist crisis.
12,000 on Stockholm demo
Where is the new regime going?
Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna’s campaign shows the way
Struggle against discrimination, for jobs
From finance crash to full-blown economic crisis
20,000 expected in Malmö
Trade union leaders who agreed on sell-out must be replaced
United Nations conference in Sweden a US public relations stunt
Strikes in Iran, Denmark and Norway
The continuing public sector strikes were a dominating theme in May Day demonstrations in Sweden and Denmark.
Massive support for their wage demands
Neo-liberal policies want to turn back the clock
But Bilbo Göransson warned by union, Kommunal
When the Red and White forces battled for power
Capitalist globalisation behind the catastrophe
Protest storm in defence of young activist
Ten years of weekly paper celebrated
CWI leaflet in English and Burmese
On Saturday, 20 October, Patrik Hooghwinkel, member of Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (CWI Sweden) and an active anti-racist, was brutally attacked by Nazis, who hit him with an iron bar until he bled.
Economic ‘upswing’ offers no improvement for the masses
Biggest left-wing mobilisation for many years
New network mobilises for anti-government demonstration
Implosion of US ’sub-prime’ housing bubble goes global
Company promises new negotiations
"We demand our share of record profits"
CWI Sweden launches new national petition
“I tried to rip up my ballot paper” –Leung Kwok-hung known as ‘Long Hair’, an independent socialist legislator in the Hong Kong Assembly
Parents, teachers and school students’ anti-cuts campaign
Since last Autumn, a new government composed of four traditional capitalist parties rules Sweden.
Almost one in every two women in Europe (about 45%) will, during their lifetime, be subjected to some form of violence.
Another US retreat?
Workers’ anger forces TUC to call protests
Kurdish refugee asylum campaign
CWI wins eight city council seats – a vital platform for coming struggles
Workers’ alternative needed against new right-wing government
CWI candidates campaign for higher public sector wages and more jobs.
Mattias and Joel, Stockholm’s “Citizens of the Month”
“Shock therapy to end the welfare state.” New book by Swedish right-wing author finds high praise amongst capitalists.
CWI members campaign for an end to attacks and for a decent minimum wages in preparation for September elections
Victory celebrations – will the masses go further?
Isolated king supported by China and the US
The campaign activities up to the 8 March reached top speed.
“Osanlou must be released” – Stockholm
700 attacks per week by insurgents
December trade meeting has “fiasco” written all over it
An appeal for support – Connex employees plan new strike
For a global socialist health programme
Strikes against Connex in Britain, France, Finland
Underground train drivers demand political strike
Parliament refuses amnesty to seriously ill children of refugees
The management of transnational company Connex on Thursday sacked Per Johansson, secretary of the fighting trade union branch, Seko 119, which organises 700 underground train drivers. This signals the most serious attack so far of […]
International solidarity week with workers’ struggles
Textiles crisis between China, the EU and the US
“We are prepared to strike as long as needed”
Sri Lanka and Japan are both reeling from horrific public transport disasters, in each case resulting from the privatisation policies of their governments and the blind chase for profits.
Tamil and Sinhala Trotskyists march united against poverty and communalism
Mass protests forced concessions, but no change of direction
“Haninge Council gives in to Elevkampanjen and abolishes charges for school meals from Autumn 2005,” the daily Swedish paper, Dagens Nyheter reported on 21 March. The Social Democrat leadership on the council retreated from the […]
King Gyanendra’s coup in Nepal, on 1 February, is “likely to strengthen the Maoist insurgents and make Nepal’s civil war even more intensive”, according to the International Crisis Group, a Brussels think-tank.
Six MPs for Red-Green Alliance in otherwise flat elections
Prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra (pronounced “Chin-a-what”) and his Thai Rak Thai (TRT) party are on course for a crushing parliamentary majority following the elections in Thailand on Sunday 6 February.
In a freezing and windy Stockholm, 1,500 people met up for this year’s demonstration on International Women’s Day, 8 March.
While Aceh on the northern edge of Sumatra has registered nearly two thirds of the total death toll from the Asian tsunami, the Acehnese so far have received only 30 per cent of UN food […]
Last Friday, Teungku Malik Mahmood, was interviewed by Offensiv in its Stockholm office. He is in exile but regarded by the Aceh Freedom Movement (Gam) as the rightful prime minister of the State of Aceh. […]
Debt payments far bigger than all aid pledges
The Indonesian ‘province’ of Aceh, on the island of Sumatra, is just 155 kilometres from the epicentre of last Sunday’s earthquake.
The Asian tsunami whose deadly waves have created havoc along the coasts of two continents is the single most devastating global natural disaster of our time.
Imperialism and illusions related to European Union membership
"The Communist party’s aim is to be loyal to their master. We read Stalin, we study Stalin, we listen to Stalin and we are learning through Stalin. This is what communist’s confidence is in Stalin, […]
"Do you want the same as in Russia?" was always a standard argument from right-wingers against socialists.
Left Party’s Stalinist history used to attack socialism
Chants of "workers’ solidarity" and "Free Yao and Xiao" greeted China’s vice premier Wu Yi as she arrived at Gothenburg’s East India Docks on the final day of her Swedish visit.
Finance Ministers and central bank chiefs from the seven richest imperialist states, the G7, meet in Washington at the start of October.
Neo-liberal and anti-refugee policies feed reaction
Big pressure has been put on politicians in a Swedish council area to reverse their retrograde policy of charging for school meals.
TV and newspaper covers campaign in Sweden
On Wednesday 7 July, a suicide bombing killed four police officers in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
Four-month-old party gets three MEPs
Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (cwi Sweden) and Elevkampanjen (socialist school students) are holding their summer camp on an island near Stockholm.
The occupation of Iraq has developed into a deepening crisis for US imperialism and President Bush. The present headache concerns the new Iraqi government due to take office from 30 June – an attempted fig […]
Socialist voice in low temperature elections
"The pioneer spirit lives". Arne Johansson speaks about three decades of struggle for socialism.
“Counter-terrorism” was one of the main issues at the EU summit in Brussels 25-26 March.
In crisis but still a threat to workers
Social democrats’ plans are a boost to racists
Intervening in the World Social Forum in Mumbai was very much like intervening in one six day-long demonstration. The activity was more or less constant from eight in the morning until nine or ten at […]
VLADIMIR LENIN, the main leader of the Russian revolution, made the following insightful observation in mid-1917: “During the lifetime of great revolutionaries, the oppressing classes constantly hounded them, received their theories with the most savage […]
Growing resistance against US imperialism worldwide was reflected in almost every meeting, demonstration, placard and badge at the World Social Forum in Mumbai.
cwi interviews striking workers’ leaders
The entire European Union project is in its worst crisis ever after the breakdown of the negotiations over a new constitution. The summit in Brussels ended in an “extraordinary fiasco”, as the Swedish news agency […]
Thirteen refugees were found dead, and fifteen almost dead, on a boat outside Italy’s coast on Sunday 19 October.
Last Wednesday, CWI member Kristofer Lundberg and every demonstrator in Sweden – past, present and future –won an important victory. The court in Gothenburg, Sweden, dismissed a case against him for organizing an ‘illegal’ demonstration.
After the No victory in Sweden, will the governments of the EU dare to hold referendums over the new constitution?
This was one of the main demands shouted outside the Irish embassy in Stockholm during a protest lobby on Tuesday.
Liv Gustavsson Rhodin Rättvisepartiet Socialisternas councillor in Luleå in striped sweatshirt. Rättvisepartiet Socialisternas is the CWI in Sweden.
On 14 September, history was made in Sweden. Never in an election or a referendum in this country has the distrust against the establishment and big business been so clearly expressed as in the referendum […]
Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna strongly condems the horrific murder of Sweden’s Foreign Minister Anna Lindh. No one can avoid feeling anger and dismay over this terrible act of violence. The deadly knife assault on 10 September was […]
First Jonas Sjöstedt, European MP for the Left Party spoke in favour of Sweden leaving the Stability Pact and the need for budget deficits at certain moments. A week later he apologized. This panic from […]
"A smooth transition" to the euro for Sweden is predicted by the Financial Times of June 6, if the ‘yes’ vote wins in the referendum on 14 September. But the deepening crisis of the Eurozone […]
"The new wage deal is a sell-out without precedent; our union president, Ylva Thörn, should resign!"
"At last we are fighting back – this is a strike we’ve been waiting for!" That is the overwhelming feeling among the more than 50,000 workers on strike in Sweden from Monday, 12 May.
The council workers’ strike in Sweden has the support of 84 per cent of the population according to opinion polls. Low paid, mainly women workers in hospitals, schools and childcare are fighting for wage increases […]
The world economy is on the edge of a prolonged period of stagnation. Before the war on Iraq began, its approach had already made a negative impact. A United Nations statement in January this year […]
The immediate response from thousands of school students when the US war started was to leave school, strike and march. The central square in Stockholm was once more packed with ten thousand school students, as […]
March 20 saw around 1,000 school students participate in a strike and midday demonstration in Umeå in northern Sweden.
The mass movements against war and the power struggles between and within the different ruling classes over the last few months have produced one unprecedented event after another.
While local union branches start to get involved in the anti-war campaign in Sweden, the national leadership of LO (trade union federation) is falling way behind. Three big branches of Seko (Communications Workers’ Union) have […]
Sergels square in the centre of Stockholm was filled with school students who demanded an immediate stop to preparations for war against Iraq.
Egypt’s president Mubarak and Jordan’s King Abdullah are feeling the ground shaking under them. They are both completely economically dependent on the US, while workers and poor people are heavily against the US war plans […]
No to war in Iraq. EU in crisis.
In the biggest demonstrations in Sweden for many decades, 80,000 marched in Stockhom, 30,000 in Gothenburg and 2,700 in Umeå. In total, there were demos in around 40 cities. All over the country, the demos […]
“In much of what is once again the opium capital of the world, the return of the warlords has meant harsh political repression, lawlessness, mass rape and widespread torture, the bombing or closure of schools, […]
In recent months, US imperialism, together with landlords, business organisations, corrupt trade union leaders and the Catholic Church, have stepped up their combined efforts to topple the radical nationalist, populist regime of Venezuelan President Hugo […]
What does Kim Jong Il’s defiance mean for the Bush military doctrine? Can these events lead to yet another US military intervention? Offensiv takes a closer look at the Korean crisis.
"Say hey, say ho, say George Bush has got to go". In the biggest demonstration so far in Sweden, 5-6 000 marched against the US war against Iraq in Gothenburg on 18 January.
The December 27th General election in Kenya resulted in a massive defeat of the Kenya African National Union (KANU) and the rise to power of the National Rainbow Coalition (NARC) which brought together sixteen opposition […]
The so called ’Truth Commisson’ in Sweden investigating the state’s secret political registers has exposed the widespread use of secret police spying on communists, socialists and workers in struggle.
Copenhagen, the capital of Denmark, was a city of protests last weekend. The reason for this was that Denmark was the holder of the EU presidency and all the European Union leaders were in town. […]
Jagadish Chandra, New Socialist Alternative (Nava Samajavaadi Paryaya – the CWI’s section in India) spoke about the struggle against privatisation in India in an interview with Offensiv (newspaper of the Swedish section of the CWI) […]
EU/EMU kan inte bli något annat än storföretagens och de rikas vapen mot arbetare och ungdomar. Inom EU är det direktörer som bestämmer och politikerna som verkställer. Toppmötet i Köpenhamn kommer att bli ännu en […]
The elections in September 2002 took place during a period of big changes in Sweden. The third government of Göran Persson, the Social Democratic party leader, will act in a completly different situation than in […]
CWI online spoke to two of the CWI’s (Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna, RS) new councillors, elected on 15 September in the Swedish town of Luleå.
Members of Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (RS), the Swedish section of the Committee for a Workers’ International, are celebrating spectacular gains in the general election held on 15 September 2002. In the two most populous cities in […]
Members of the CWI in Sweden have added a new local council seat to the two already held in the town of Umeå and have come from having no seats to winning two in the […]
cwi comment and analysis, international report.
TENS OF thousands demonstrated against US president George W. Bush and the summit of the European Union (EU) in Gothenburg, Sweden, 14-16 June.
A report has come out with shocking figures. 47% of girls in the nine-year compulsory schools are sexually harassed. The climate against young women has become harder in society and has reached the schools in […]
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