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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, […]

The Democratic Republic of the Congo, in Central Africa, is the stage of an ongoing armed conflict between state forces and the March 23 Movement (M23) guerrilla army, backed by the neighbouring state of Rwanda. […]

We need a New Workers’ Party The less than 3-year-old power-sharing agreement between the SNP and Scottish Greens has collapsed. What has become a bitter fall out is rooted in falling support in working-class communities […]

The following article, written twenty years ago by Manny Thain for the 30th anniversary of the revolution, looks back on the lessons to be drawn from this turbulent period of Portuguese history. In addition to […]

The following resolution was adopted by the National Conference of Gauche Révolutionnaire (CWI in France) over the weekend of 23-24 March 2024. Since the end of the Covid-19 crisis, the capitalist world economy has not […]

Ghaith Abdul-Ahad, born in Iraq in the 1970s, began writing for the London Guardian and the Washington Post after the US led invasion in 2003. A Stranger in Your Own City starkly, and often beautifully, […]

From the very beginning of spring this year, a catastrophic tragedy has been unfolding in Kazakhstan – whole villages and cities are being devastated by floods. Tens of thousands of houses have been literally submerged […]

Iran’s retaliatory attack on Israel ushers in a new, more dangerous, stage in the widening of the Gaza conflict towards a full regional war in the Middle East, something which would have global implications. In […]

Last week, Thursday 11 April, the largest trade union in Northern Ireland, NIPSA, held a protest at the office of the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, in central Belfast, demanding: ‘Peace now – stop […]

The Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Act was implemented on 1 April to a storm of political debate. More than 7,000 hate crime reports were lodged at Police Scotland’s Contact, Command and Control Centres […]

On Friday, April 13, the Berlin police broke up the ‘Palestine Congress’, a conference of various pro-Palestinian and left-wing organisations, which had met under the motto of “We denounce” support for the Israeli government’s Gaza […]

Jeffrey Donaldson MP resigned his position as Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) party leader suddenly and unexpectedly on the morning of Good Friday, the twenty-seventh since the Belfast agreement was negotiated in 1997. The announcement came […]

Hundreds of home care workers are striking for pay justice. Socialist Party Scotland offers our full support to these workers in the fight for decent and equal pay that recognises the vital and skilled job […]

Outrage at the massive death toll, destruction and famine in Gaza rose even further worldwide at the start of April when seven charity workers from World Central Kitchen were added to the victims of the […]

The working class of Ireland celebrated the unexpected resignation of the Taoiseach [Irish prime minister] Leo Varadkar, on 20 March. Varadkar is one of the most vicious neo-liberal, pro-capitalist politicians in the South of Ireland […]

The strike wave of the last two years in Britain and in other European countries has taken levels of industrial action to a scale not seen since the 1980s. A new generation of trade union […]

On 31 March 2024, voters in Turkey punished Erdogan’s right-wing pro-capitalist Justice and Development Party (AKP), which has been in power for more than two decades. Following their electoral victory in major cities in 2019, […]

The crisis-ridden saga of Thames Water in Britain continues. Recent news suggests that a promised £3 billion of further investment into the company may be withheld, threatening the possibility that it will be unable to […]

There is a housing crisis in Australia. Renters have seen prices sky rocket. Mortgagees are struggling under the weight of relentless interest rate hikes. Public housing waiting lists are in the thousands or tens of […]

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 […]

A year has passed since the Scottish National Party (SNP) was thrown into a huge crisis following the resignation of Nicola Sturgeon as party leader and first minister in the Scottish parliament. As we pointed […]

After almost six months, after more than 32,000 dead, after more than 74,000 wounded, and after the majority of buildings have been reduced to rubble, the United Nations (UN) Security Council has finally passed a […]

The following document was discussed and adopted by the Socialist Party Scotland congress in March 2024.   International backdrop The tumultuous and increasingly overwhelming crises facing the global capitalist system is the backdrop to any […]

Employers’ responses to union demands in the annual spring labour offensive (Shunto) have inspired newspaper headlines announcing “the biggest wage increases in 30 years”. The Rengo, the largest Japanese trade union federation, announced on March […]

The horrific terror attacks on the outskirts of Moscow on 22 March shocked and repulsed Russians and people everywhere. At the time of writing, the death toll is officially 139 and rising. Over 180 people […]

This article was originally written after the outgoing Senegalese president, Macky Sall, suddenly postponed the presidential election set for February 25. Following mass opposition, the election is set to be held on March 24 and […]

Earlier this week, the Taoiseach [Irish prime minister] Leo Varadkhar, made a surprise resignation speech. He indicated various reasons behind the decision, including ‘political and personal’ factors. An important factor will have been the recent […]

Over the last month in Ladakh, the eastern part of the Jammu and Kashmir state, massive protests involving hundreds of thousands of people have taken place across the region. They are protesting against the brute […]

A quarter of the Gaza population are on the brink of famine, according to the United Nations (UN). In January, a whole swathe of rich capitalist  nations suspended funding for UNRWA – the UN body […]

The Communist Party (KPÖ) in Austria has seen a couple of successes in local and regional elections in the last two and a half years. The first was in Graz, Austria’s second largest city,  where […]

It is now over two years since the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the start of the war between the two countries, with Ukraine receiving essential Nato backing. The battlefront has been in a relative […]

‘Coal not dole’ was the cry across Britain as 180,000 members of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) in 180 pits began walking out on strike in March 1984. It became a long, bitter industrial […]

In the new world situation of deep capitalist crises and intensification of inter-imperialist conflicts, German imperialism is facing new challenges and divisions within the ruling class on the question of how the position of German […]

The following resolution was adopted by the Federal Conference of Sozialistische Organisation Solidarität (Sol, CWI in Germany) on the 9 December 2023. World & Europe What the CWI formulated at the beginning of this year […]

Relentless grim news from Gaza has shifted the outlook of people across the Middle East and North Africa. US and European weapons have rained down on defenceless Palestinians while food and medical supplies are blockaded. […]

In the past one and half months, Pune, in India, became an epicentre of right-wing violence, with series of attacks on education institutions and public places. The first one took place on 23rd January 2024. […]

As well as coming under pressure from the masses over the Egyptian regime’s cowardly response to the Israeli state’s merciless attacks on Gaza, ‘strongman’ President Sisi faces rising workers’ anger. Sharply rising food prices have […]

This  month marks the 40th anniversary of the start of the heroic miners’ strike in Britain. The eventual defeat of the miners, mainly due to the role of the TUC and Labour Party leaderships, has […]

Meeting on the eve of a general election which will usher in a new period of class struggle, delegates from our many Socialist Party branches across England and Wales met in London to discuss, debate […]

Exit poll companies’ preliminary counts indicate that Defence Minister Prabowo Subianto has emerged victorious over his competitors in the Indonesian election, although the official results will not be published until mid-March. Prabowo has exceeded expectations […]

The Rochdale parliamentary by-election in northern England on 29 February could not have delivered a more emphatic rejection of the capitalist establishment and its tame politicians if it had been a scripted drama. George Galloway […]

We of the Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM) consider the decision of the leadership of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) to suspend the two-day nationwide protest of February 27 and 28, 2024 after only one day […]

On 8 March voters in the Republic of Ireland face two referenda to change the constitution. The ‘Family Amendment’ vote proposes to extend constitutional recognition to all families, not just those based on marriage. As […]

The shambolic end to the UK parliamentary debate on Gaza on Wednesday 21 February reflected the pressure being felt from the anti-war movement on the Tories and Labour, and the widespread anger at their refusal […]

The General Council (GC) is the Executive body of the Northern Ireland Public Services Alliance (NIPSA) which takes critical decisions on the actions and decisions of the union between conference. The election is an important […]

On Monday 26th February 2024, the Joint Action Front (JAF) in conjunction with Coalition for Revolution (CORE), held protest actions in Lagos and three other states in Nigeria over the worsening cost of living crisis. […]

Economics Minister Robert Habeck, described the economic situation in Germany as “dramatically bad” after the growth forecasts for the economy were reduced from 1.2 to 0.3 per cent this year – after a year of […]