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Latest:
  • [ June 25, 2026 ] Britain: Keir Starmer resigns just two years on from labour’s ‘landslide’ Britain
  • [ June 25, 2026 ] Right-wing media launch campaign against Sascha Staničić, a member of the Left Party and Sol (CWI Germany)  Germany
  • [ June 24, 2026 ] What will Trump’s truce and any deal with Iran actually bring?  Iran
  • [ June 23, 2026 ] “Albania is not for sale!” – the masses rise against luxury Kushner project Albania
  • [ June 22, 2026 ] From Anti-Caste Revolt to Bourgeois Accommodation: The Trajectory of Dravdian Politics   India

USA

Iran

What will Trump’s truce and any deal with Iran actually bring? 

June 24, 2026 Robert Bechert 

Once again slim hopes have risen that the death toll in West Asia’s current wars will, at least, lessen with the announcement of a 60-day extension of the shaky truce between the US and Iran.  As Gaza, and now Lebanon, has shown, a truce can lessen the numbers of dead and injured but not completely stop the killing and […]

USA

Over 3,000 workers at Long Island Railroad (L7IRR), New York, take strike action

May 18, 2026 Nick Wurst and Matt Foster - members of SMART-TD and Railroad Workers United

The Independent Socialist Group stands in solidarity with workers at the Long Island Railroad (LIRR) in New York, where approximately 3,500 members of rail unions have taken strike action against the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) […]

Iran

Socialists in the US say: “Stop the war against Iran!”

March 3, 2026 Statement by the Executive Committee of the Independent Socialist Group (USA)

The governments of Israel and the U.S. launched military attacks on Iran last week. The Netanyahu and Trump regimes, including Republican and Democratic Party leaderships, have blood on their hands, killing innocent civilians in another […]

Minneapolis

Tens of Thousands March Again Against ICE

February 1, 2026 An eyewitness report

Once again, tens of thousands participated in a march through downtown Minneapolis on January 30th as part of a “shutdown” against ICE and state repression. Over 300 actions were planned across the country. This time, wrongly, there […]

Minneapolis

EYEWITNESS | The Minneapolis Anti-ICE ‘General Strike’

January 24, 2026 ISG & CWI reporters

Tens of thousands mobilized in a day of action in Minneapolis on 23 January against the state repression of Trump’s administration and its brutal deployment of three thousand ICE agents to the state of Minnesota. […]

Mamdani

What will New York’s ‘democratic socialist’ mayor Mamdani do next? 

January 12, 2026 Frank Merritt, CWI 

On January 1, 2026, Zohran Mamdani took office as mayor of New York City amid continued interest and anticipation for his “New Era” of affordability for working class New Yorkers.   According to his transition website, 50,000 in the city applied to […]

Nigeria

US Christmas Airstrikes in Nigeria

January 10, 2026 Peluola Adewale, Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI Nigeria)

Only the united action of the working people can end insecurity On Christmas Day 2025, the United States launched missiles that reportedly hit two terrorist camps in the Bauni forest axis of Tangaza Local Government […]

Mamdani

New York: Winning the demands of the Mamdani mayor campaign

January 9, 2026 Jeff Booth, AFSCME Local 3650 (personal capacity)

“A great New Yorker once said that while you campaign in poetry, you govern in prose.”– From Zohran Mamdani’s victory speech, quoting Mario Cuomo, a former Democratic Party Governor of New York State. “Socialist reform […]

Spotlight on the USA

Venezuela, Trump and a New Era of Imperialist Aggression

January 8, 2026 Tony Saunois, CWI Secretary

US Forces out of Latin America For workers’ unity and socialism The kidnaping of Venezuelan President, Nicolás Maduro, and his wife, Celia Flores, through the military assault by US imperialism has, in a dramatic fashion, […]

Mamdani

USA | Mamdani’s Victory – An Important Opportunity to Build a Mass Movement

November 7, 2025 Frank Merritt, CWI

Zohran Mamdani, a self-described socialist, running as the official Democratic Party candidate, has won the New York Mayoral election. He is the first candidate since 1969 to win over one million votes in the city, […]

Spotlight on the USA

Democracy, Repression and Bonapartism Under Trump 2.0

November 5, 2025 Sean Figg, CWI

What the Steady State report tells us On 16 October the Steady State organisation published a report warning that the second Trump administration in the US, “is placing the nation on a trajectory toward competitive […]

Mamdani

What does Mamdani represent and what attitude should socialists take?

October 7, 2025 Frank Merritt, CWI

Social and political convulsion in the US only increases. The Trump administration is widening its use of administrative ‘bonapartist’ powers, engages in militarised methods and attacks on the “violent left” in the aftermath of the […]

Mamdani

Mamdani: Rocking the Boat, or Keeping It Afloat?

October 7, 2025 Peggy Wang & Nicholas Wurst, Independent Socialist Group (ISG)

This article was originally published on 5 August 2025, shortly after Mamdani won the Democratic nomination. We are publishing it alongside a companion piece by Frank Merritt, from the CWI’s International Executive Committee, which expands […]

USA

Death of Reactionary Demagogue Charlie Kirk

September 17, 2025 Prasad Welikumbura, United Socialist Party, Sri Lanka

The focus should be against the capitalist system! The following article by United Socialist Party (CWI Sri Lanka) member, Prasad Welikumbura, looks the politics of Charlie Kirk, the right wing demagogue who was killed by […]

USA

US – Don’t Fire MassArt Educators for Exercising their Right to Free Speech and Protest! – Sign the pettion

July 21, 2025 Independent Socialist Group (ISG)

Two union educators at MassArt (Boston, US) are under threat of being fired for participating in a peaceful protest in support of divestment from weapons and an end to the genocide. Demand that MassArt immediately […]

Iran

Israel–Iran ceasefire: Superficial “victory” projected by Israeli government as bloodbath in Gaza goes on

June 29, 2025 A guest article by Shahar Benhorin, Socialist Struggle Movement, Israel-Palestine

The ceasefire in the Israel–Iran war has brought after twelve days an end, for now, to the aerial bombing offensive that killed hundreds of Iranian civilians, as well as to the counter-offensive in which missile […]

USA

Socialists in the USA say: “End the war with Iran!”

June 22, 2025 Independent Socialist Group (US) Executive Committee

On June 21st, President Donald Trump ordered attacks on three Iranian nuclear sites. The strikes included the use of B2 bombers, dropping six 30,000-pound bombs, along with missile launches from submarines. This constitutes an act of […]

Minneapolis

National Guard Deployed in Los Angeles – Trump’s escalation Met with Resistance

June 16, 2025 By Steve Hollasky, CWI member in Dresden, Germany

President Trump ordered the US National Guard and Marines to the streets of Los Angeles to counter protests against the deportation of immigrant workers and their families. This is a major escalation of violent action […]

USA

Building the Movement Against Trump: Stop the attacks on Women, LGBTQ, Protestors, and Immigrants!

June 2, 2025 S.J. Dickie Boston, MA, Independent Socialist Group

Four months into the second Donald Trump presidency, larger protests against Trump’s attacks on immigrants, women, and the LGBTQ+ community are developing. Trump’s rapid-fire executive actions are meant to intimidate and spread fear. People across […]

Solidarity

APPEAL | Solidarity with MassArt Workers and Students in USA

May 19, 2025 Independent Socialist Group (ISG)

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, […]

USA

No Honeymoon for Trump!

March 14, 2025 Independent Socialist Group (USA)

Defeat MAGAnomics, Fight for Socialism Into the second month of the Trump administration, the media is saturated with headlines and stories tracking the flurry of maneuvers, drama, and rumors around the White House, Elon Musk, […]

USA

USA: How a new, union-backed workers’ party could contest Trump and the Democrats

March 4, 2025 Nick Wurst SMART-TD Local 1473 & Railroad Workers United (personal capacity) Worcester, MA

Unions are more popular than the two corporate parties in the USA – the Republicans and Democrats. The labor movement has consistently received significantly more support from the American public than either the Republican and Democratic parties in […]

USA

USA: How can we build a workers’ party to take on Trump?

February 25, 2025 Jeff Booth AFSCME Local 3650 (personal capacity) Boston, MA

The November 2024 US election results rattled the status quo of capitalist politics, despite a billionaire being elected President and the two corporate parties retaining their duopoly over the electoral system for the time being. […]

USA

Fight Trump and the Right With a Mass Workers’ Movement

January 21, 2025 Ashley Rogers, Independent Socialist Group

The election of Donald Trump, a right-wing populist with strong ties to the far-right, has prompted fear of what his agenda could have in store for the working class. Trump ran on an anti-immigrant platform […]

USA

Trump’s Second Presidency Begins: Interview with a US socialist

January 20, 2025 Interview with Clare Bayler, Independent Socialist Group (US)

Interview with Clare Bayler, from Independent Socialist Group. Donald Trump is being inaugurated on 20 January. Lots of people in Britain are repulsed by his reactionary rhetoric and find it hard to understand what led […]

USA

REVIEW | JD Vance’s ‘Hillbilly Elegy’ 

January 2, 2025 Matt Dobson, Socialist Party Scotland (CWI Scotland)

I’ve been sellin’ my soul, workin’ all day Overtime hours for bullshit pay So I can sit out here and waste my life away Drag back home and drown my troubles away  It’s a damn […]

Spotlight on the USA

Trumpism and its Limits

December 3, 2024 Editorial from Socialism Today, magazine of the Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)

“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; […]

Britain

Trump Return Spells Instability and Struggle

November 21, 2024 Editorial of the Socialist (issue 1299) weekly paper of the Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)

Donald Trump has been elected again, this time as the candidate with the most votes. Millions of people in the US and worldwide are looking on in trepidation as he announces a series of ultra-right […]

USA

Trump Declared President-Elect for Second Right-Wing, Anti-Worker Term

November 6, 2024 Independent Socialist Group (USA) statement

Donald Trump was declared the winner of the 2024 presidential election early this morning (6 November). Once again, the Democratic Party’s pro-corporate agenda failed to win enough votes to stop Trump, the right, and far […]

USA

US elections: Trump’s return heralds upheavals

November 6, 2024 Robert Bechert, CWI International Secretariat

The victory of Trump and his refashioned Republican party clearly opens new chapters in both US and world history. For many in a polarised US this victory of right populism will strike more than a […]

USA

Neither Republicans nor Democrats offer a pro-working class agenda

October 28, 2024 B.W. Sculos Vice President, Rio Grande Valley United Faculty (TFA/NEA) (personal capacity) Edinburg, TX

Working-class people have every reason to despise and oppose the US Democratic Party and its capitalist agenda, but Trump and Vance are no alternative for us. Many working-class people are rightly disgusted by Trump, both […]

USA

Why Working Class People Should Vote for Jill Stein and Cornel West

September 30, 2024 Independent Socialist Group (US) Executive Committee

Working-class people in the US need an alternative to the two pro-corporate political parties. We have to build opposition to the Biden/Harris and Trump administrations’ support for the war in Gaza, the cost-of-living-crisis, and attacks […]

USA

Interview with a Socialist Activist

September 18, 2024 Interview with Claire Bayler of the Independent Socialist Group (CWI support group in the USA), first published by SoL (CWI Germany)

Election years in the United States are often intense. To make it seem like voting is the only way to make a difference, capitalists and the media create drama and attention-grabbing headlines. Slogans like “This […]

USA

Harris Will Continue Representing the Capitalists, not the Working Class

September 10, 2024 Jeff Booth, Independent Socialist Group, USA

Biden’s campaign was on track to crash and burn after his debate with Trump. Despite leading Democrats – including so-called progressive or “left” Democrats like Sanders and AOC – backing Biden to the bitter end. […]

USA

The Truth About the US Inflation Reduction Act

August 19, 2024 Hannah Sell, CWI International Secretariat

Originally published in Socialism Today, magazine of the Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales). This year is the thirtieth birthday of the World Trade Organisation (WTO). It is also the year China opened a WTO […]

USA

USA | Biden Leaves Presidential Race

July 25, 2024 Lenny Shail, Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales) Executive Committee

Fight for Working Class Political Alternative “America has passed through one of Lenin’s weeks in which decades happen” was how the capitalist Economist magazine started one of its leaders referencing the famous remark of the […]

USA

Trump assassination attempt exposes US political polarisation

July 17, 2024 Statement by the Executive Committee of the Independent Socialist Group (US)

On Saturday 13 July, a lone gunman fired shots at presidential candidate Donald Trump at a rally in Pennsylvania, killing one audience member and wounding two others. Trump himself walked away after a bullet grazed […]

USA

USA: Labour unions call for “end the death and devastation” in Middle East

May 20, 2024 Jacob Bielski Springfield, MA, Independent Socialist Group

On February 16th, “Seven national unions and over two hundred local unions today formed the National Labor Network for Ceasefire (NLNC) to ‘end the death and devastation’ in the Middle East, and to expand support […]

USA

US: All out strike to defend rail jobs and the rail industry!

May 14, 2024 Nicholas Wurst SMART-TD Local 1473 & RWU Steering Committee (personal capacity) Worcester, MA

Railroad workers cannot afford another drawn-out, “business-as-usual” bargaining process. BNSF and Union Pacific railroads carried out mass layoffs this past winter, and the corporations are attempting to eliminate freight conductors and implement one-man crews. We […]

USA

US CAMPUS PROTESTS | It’s Not a Crime to Oppose Genocide and War

April 29, 2024 Independent Socialist Group (ISG)

Below is the text of a leaflet being distributed on US campuses by the Independent Socialist Group (ISG – that stands in political solidarity with the CWI). Drop All Charges Against Protestors! On 27 April, […]

USA

US: Freighter collision collapses Francis Scott Key Bridge

April 3, 2024 Jacob Bielski & Claire Bayler (former Baltimore dockhand) Springfield & Worcester, MA

On Tuesday, March 26th, the Dali, a 985-foot-long cargo ship, collided with and destroyed the Francis Scott Key Bridge, which spans the outer Baltimore Harbor in Maryland. Authorities shut down traffic after hearing the ship’s mayday […]

USA

US auto workers strike: UAW workers can win more!

November 24, 2023 Peggy Wang Massachusetts Teachers Association, Assoc. of Professional Administrators (personal capacity) Boston, MA

After six weeks of selective strikes against the “Big 3” American automakers, the United Auto Workers (UAW) leadership reached tentative agreements (TAs) with Ford, GM, and Stellantis. Union leaders called off picket lines, and approximately […]

USA

US: Speaker crisis reveals political division against backdrop of growing worker militantcy

October 12, 2023 Lenny Shail, from The Socialist (England & Wales CWI)

It seems that few weeks go by without a new stage of widening social polarisation and fracturing divisions developing within US society and US capitalism. On 3 October, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, […]

USA

Car workers strike in US-wide dispute

September 21, 2023 Independent Socialist Group, US

On 15 September, members of the Independent Socialist Group (ISG) joined with United Auto Workers (UAW) members and other supporters at a practice picket in Mansfield, MA, to show support for a strike. Following the […]

USA

US | Fissures Prepare Eruption of Political Crisis and Working Class Struggle

September 6, 2023 Lenny Shail, Socialist Party (CWI in England & Wales)

The latest indictment of Donald Trump, his fourth criminal case this year, marks another new stage in the dysfunctional, chaotic, fractured current-day USA. “America is history’s most successful failing state”, the Financial Times put it […]

USA

Court cases mount for Donald Trump

August 9, 2023 Dave Murray, from The Socialist (issue 1238)

Donald Trump attended a federal court in Washington DC on 3 August in which he faced a 45-page criminal indictment accusing him of conspiracy to overturn the democratic outcome of the 2020 US presidential election. […]

USA

Hollywood strikes!

August 1, 2023 James Ivens, Equity (UK actors' union) member

Writers and performers for TV and film across the United States are on strike. They are fighting for their livelihood and industry futures in a double crisis of inflation and new tech disruption. Angry picket […]

USA

UPS Teamster tentative agreement reached: Does it meet workers’ needs?

July 29, 2023 Independent Socialist Group (US)

On Tuesday July 25th, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters announced a tentative agreement (TA) with UPS, calling off the strike of 350,000 workers that was set to begin on August 1st. UPS Teamsters are the […]

USA

US Supreme Court targets Teamsters union

July 24, 2023 Ronan Foley (Teamsters Local 170) & Nick Wurst (SMART-TD Local 1473)

In August 2017, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (Local 174) was negotiating a new contract with concrete company Glacier Northwest. Concrete truck drivers reported to work, turned on their trucks, left the full containers of […]

USA

Labour and community support needed for UPS Teamsters action!

July 6, 2023 Evren Pallares O Laoghaire, Teamsters Local 170, UPS Package Handler (personal capacity)

On June 16th, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters announced that 97% of UPS Teamsters voted to authorize a strike if we can’t reach a strong tentative agreement by August 1st. If UPS workers strike this […]

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