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The coronavirus pandemic has laid bare the inadequacies of capitalism internationally, and the problems with private healthcare in the United States, in particular. After months of the corporate media blaming ‘socialism’ for food and consumer […]

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 […]

Written on 09/03/2020 for The Socialist – Weekly paper of the Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales). Sanders faces uphill struggle to win Democratic Party nomination. Working class must have an independent political voice. The […]

The attempt by bosses of Amazon and other companies to effectively buy control of Seattle city council was defeated by a city-wide reaction against their takeover attempt. Despite the big business dominated Seattle Chamber of […]

Around 48,000 General Motors workers are on strike nationwide in the United States for the sixth day. The United Auto Workers union walked out of all 55 US plants on 15 September, for the first […]

Bernie Sanders’ 2016 bid for the presidency shook up US politics. Attracting hundreds of thousands of people around a radical programme, it showed the potential for a working-class-based alternative to the two main parties. Tony […]

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 […]

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.”