'Cockroach' Movement

Spontaneity, Repression and Organisation

Lessons from the “Cockroach” youth movement against the Modi Regime On 26th July, when Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan announced his resignation, the youth and the masses celebrated the victory across the country. The mass movement, which […]

Senegal

Senegal: Political crisis against a backdrop of a major economic crisis

Ousmane Sonko is a central figure in Senegalese politics, known for his anti‑corruption stance, leadership of the PASTEF party, and his recent political rupture with President Bassirou Diomaye Faye. Below Leïla Messaoudi looks at the […]

Germany

Germany: International solidarity against union busting – CWI member under attack for his defence of workers’ rights 

Cologne’s swimming pool operator, Köln-Bäder GmbH, a subsidiary of Cologne’s council’s municipal services provider, Stadtwerke-Köln GmbH, has filed a motion for the extraordinary termination of employment of works council member, Martin Löber. The reason given for this termination is alleged working-hour fraud. Experts from ver.di (the public sector union) who have […]

Europe

Statement on Europe

Over the weekend of 18-19 April, the CWI’s European Bureau met in London, with comrades from Austria, England & Wales, France, Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands, Romania and Scotland in attendance. The Bureau discussed and debated […]

Features - Right-Wing Populism

HUNGARY | Orbán Concedes Defeat

Lessons on the character and limits of right-populism in government in Europe Viktor Orban has conceded defeat in Hungary’s parliamentary elections, ending the first and longest ‘experiment’ in right-populist government in this era. At the […]

India

India and Trump’s tariff war

On 12th February, ten central trade unions announced one a day general strike in continuation of their struggle against new labour codes that completely undermine even the basic rights of workers. This is with the […]

Germany

The Revival of Die Linke

Originally published in Socialism Today, magazine of the Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales). TOM HOFFMAN of Sol (CWI Germany), explains why Die Linke (the Left party) has undergone an unexpected electoral and membership growth […]

Middle East & North Africa

No to the Israel–Iran War

The Netanyahu–Trump gang is expanding regional conflagration in service of the occupation and the rule of capital Advance broad protest, refusal, and strike action with the call: No to the Israel–Iran war, an end to […]

Kashmir

War Looms Over Kashmir

Pakistan’s Defence Minister claimed on 29 April that India is likely to take military action, something that has the potential to escalate into an all-out war between these nuclear-armed countries. The recent tensions were provoked by the […]

Syria

Assad Dictatorship Gone

But independent workers’ organisation needed to struggle for socialist democracy Millions of Syrian people reacted with astonishment and joy at news that the Assad family’s five-decade long despotic regime had collapsed. President Bashir al-Assad, and […]

Spotlight on the USA

Trumpism and its Limits

“It is time to study Caligula. That most notorious of Roman emperors killed what was left of the republic and centralised authority in himself. Donald Trump does not need to make his horse a senator; […]

Bolivia

BOLIVIA | Failed Coup Attempt

Bolivia has once again been thrust into a political crisis with an attempted coup on Wednesday 26th of June. Reflecting the powerful revolutionary traditions the main trade union confederation COB rapidly declared an indefinite general […]