Which direction Sri Lanka will take in the coming period? Will the establishment move towards consolidating its position, which was jolted by recent mass uprisings led by the youth? Or will the mass youth movement […]
The results of the legislative elections were a major blow for Macron. His electoral alliance, named “Ensemble” [Together] in a final panic before the shipwreck, only obtained 245 deputies, compared with 360 in 2017. This […]
Workers won’t go back to the past Stop the Right-Wing Attack on Civil Rights On June 24th the Supreme Court in the US overturned the precedent set by Roe v. Wade that protected the legal […]
Shock waves from the Ukraine war are being felt across the world. Its impact on food supplies and tourism is shaking the Middle East and North African (MENA) countries, all of which had huge problems […]
The 19 June second round of elections to France’s National Assembly – its parliament – marked a new stage in the political situation that shook establishment circles to their core. Just two months after retaining […]
In a major blow to the rich oligarchs and the ruling class in Colombia, the left-wing candidate, Gustavo Petro, won the presidential election, taking 50.5% of the vote to 47.3% for the maverick, right-wing populist, […]
Segun Sango (7 May 1958 – 23 May 2022) – founding member and General Secretary of the Democratic Socialist Movement, the CWI in Nigeria Many of the obituaries for and reminiscences of Segun Sango have […]
During the Covid crisis the combined wealth of the billionaires in the UK rose 21.7% to £597 billion. Yet the Tory government and capitalist media complain about workers on the railways fighting for an increase […]
The Trump hearings in Washington reveal devastating details of his attempt to cling to power and carry through what amounted to a coup to overturn the US presidential elections in 2021. Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil’s president, […]
Tens of thousands will take to the streets of London on Saturday 18 June as part of the Trades Union Congress (TUC) demonstration on the cost-of-living crisis; the first mass trade union demonstration for many […]
The first round of the legislative elections saw good votes for the left alliance NUPES [New Ecological and Social People’s Union, headed by Jean-Luc Mélenchon] and reaffirmed the support for Mélenchon in last April’s presidential […]
The note of optimism and determination of the declaration issued at the end of the South African Federation of Trade Unions (Saftu) Second Congress in May will be greeted with a sense both of relief […]
Iran has not been at rest since the beginning of 2022. Amongst the protesters were teachers who, under the leadership of the Coordinating Council of Iranian Teachers’ Trade Associations, led a campaign of protests and […]
There is currently a generation of young workers in Spain who have no idea what “prosperity” means. Those who acquired a consciousness of their surroundings after the 2008 financial crash, which in the Spanish State […]
The problems of the airline industry predate the pandemic and stretch back to privatisation in the 1980s. In the post-war period, governments invested billions in the creation of the worldwide airline industry. This investment was […]
The Scottish National Party/Scottish Green government’s spending review for the next five years has set in stone a regime of brutal cuts to jobs and public services. It is also a declaration of war on […]
In the absence of a genuine mass workers’ political alternative, it is now beyond doubt that the 2023 general elections in Nigeria will be dominated by two old, virulently anti-worker, anti-poor, and incurably corrupt presidential […]
One hundred and forty-eight Tory MPs have finally moved against UK Prime Minister, Boris Johnson. It is not growing poverty, soaring energy bills, or Johnson’s endless parties and lies that have pushed them to act: […]
The Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM) condemns the tragic attack on St. Francis Catholic Church Owo, Ondo State by yet-to-be-identified gunmen on Sunday 5 June 2022. We join Nigerians to mourn the scores who died while […]
The temperature of the class struggle is rising. 2022 has already seen a whole number of strikes in mining, metal, manufacturing, on farms, and in the public sector. Some have been brief skirmishes as workers […]
According to the Roman poet Juvenal, the ancient Roman emperors aimed to placate their subjects with “bread and circuses”. It would seem that the capitalist class in Britain is hoping for a similar effect with […]
Tory chancellor Rishi Sunak’s screeching windfall tax U-turn was a vain attempt to cut across growing anger at falling living standards, and the mass protests that could result. As even the right-wing Sunday Times pointed […]
The world has changed since the war in Ukraine began. Like the coronavirus – which not only shut down the world but also accelerated profound changes in economic, political and social relations – the war […]
The backdrop of the Australian Federal Elections were two issues; climate change and falling living standards. Australia has had a continued growth rate for the past 30 years, mainly on the back of mineral exports […]
Workers organized in Finnish unions OAJ and JHL, and several smaller unions, concluded a nationwide rolling strike action with a week-long strike that closed schools and disrupted municipal services across the country from 3 to […]
In a landslide victory, Ferdinand Marcos Jr., better known as Bong Bong Marcos or simply BBM, is to become the new president of the Philippines in late May. The son and namesake of the infamous […]
On 15th May, Lebanese voters went to the polls in one of the strangest elections in recent years. The unprecedented social collapse in Lebanon over the last few years was the background to this election. […]
The Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales) congress took place from 14 to 16 May in London – the first since February 2020 because of Covid. Congress is the most important democratic decision-making body of […]
The Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM) joins members of the public to condemn the brutal and gruesome killing on Thursday 12 May 2022 of Ms. Deborah Samuel, a second year student at Shehu Shagari College of […]
The results of the Northern Ireland Assembly election on May 5th mark a significant political turning point. For the first time since the partition of Ireland in 1921, a nationalist party has emerged with the […]
March 17th 2022 will now always be synonymous with P&O as far as trade union activists are concerned, with the vicious assault on the workers’ jobs and contracts carried out on that day. The company […]
Putin’s brutal regime emerged in conditions of economic anarchy as a new capitalist class was forming amidst the collapse of the previously planned economy. Peter Taaffe reviews a recent book that graphically describes what happened. […]
£40 billion. That’s the eye-watering sum oil giants BP and Shell are set to make this year alone. A year that has seen a dire cost-of-living crisis hit the working class so significantly that over […]
On 2 May, a draft opinion from the Supreme Court case Dobbs v Jackson was leaked, suggesting that the ruling in this case will overturn the precedent set by Roe v. Wade. If this happens, […]
The Sri Lankan government’s attempt to defeat the movement against it has provoked a ferocious reaction from protesters. Just days before, on 6 May, trade unions organised the most successful Hartal (a general stoppage of […]
On local elections day, 5 May, none of the main parties offered any escape from the escalating, unrelenting cost-of-living crisis. No surprise then that the turnout was low. Those who did vote gave a snapshot […]
The following article was written just before the resignation yesterday of Sri Lanka’s prime minister, Mahinda Rajapaksa, after weeks of protests amid an economic crisis. President Gotabaya Rajapaksa remains in place as demands grow for […]
Ordinarily, Nigerians are no strangers to suffering. But if the truth must be told, the kind of suffering and misery being experienced by the mass of Nigerians over the past few months is second to […]
Some Pictures from of Hartal Day On Friday 6th of May, 2022, the sun rose on the island nation Sri Lanka just as on any other day. But it was not an ordinary day. Hundreds […]
Today, 5 May, marks the 12th anniversary of the sad loss of Peter Hadden, a leading comrade of the CWI in Ireland and internationally. Peter’s life in the struggle for socialism and his important contribution […]
Two weeks ago, the editorial of the Socialist commented on the fines given to Boris Johnson, Rishi Sunak and other MPs for breaking their own Covid rules, and on the blatant tax avoidance of Sunak’s family. We […]
The Russian invasion of Ukraine has caused a rapid spike in the Finnish public’s support for joining NATO. Finland’s right-wing political parties are using the opportunity to rush the country into the military pact; Finland’s […]
Tens of thousands of workers all over the country came out on strike on Thursday 28 April. They are demanding the resignation of the country’s corrupt president and his family-led government. They have created the […]
A month has passed since the installation of the new government in Chile and the new President, Gabriel Boric. Yet the political, economic and social instability continue to be the main characteristic of the current […]
Emmanuel Macron has won the presidential election against Marine Le Pen. The capitalists’ plans worked, just, forcing a replay of the 2017 second round. Incredibly, Macron was able to win again despite the vicious policies […]
The Socialist Party (C WI England & Wales) is part of the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC), an anti-austerity electoral alliance, including the RMT transport union. TUSC will be standing hundreds of candidates in […]
In Germany the Left party DIE LINKE has been in a mounting crisis since the disastrous collapse in its vote in last September’s general election. The party saw a a fall in support since the […]
It is now more than eight weeks since the Russian parliament voted for Luhansk and Donbas to be recognised as independent republics and Putin’s tanks began to roll into Ukraine from the North, East and […]
The majority of people have reacted with horror at the violent death of Elvis Nyathi, stoned and burned to death by a murderous mob in Diepsloot, South Africa. According to his wife, the mob had […]
Militant Left supporter Cllr. Donal O’Cofaigh is contesting the Fermanagh-South Tyrone constituency in the 5 May elections to the Northern Ireland Assembly. Donal is running as a Cross Community Labour Alternative (CCLA) candidate. In an […]
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