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 […]
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 […]
On the second anniversary of the 7 October 2023 attack on Israel and the subsequent prolonged genocidal slaughter in Gaza, the fate of Trump’s latest proposals for an end to the war is still in […]
The Israeli state’s capture and arrest of aid workers, peace campaigners, workers representatives and parliamentarians on the Global Sumud Flotilla has sparked a general strike across Italy. The flotilla vessels, which were aiming to break […]
Against the background of rising tensions and protests over the issue of asylum seekers being accommodated in hotels, urgent discussion needs to take place in the workers’ movement to put forward a fighting policy of […]
A big step forward for the solidarity movement in Germany On 27 September, around 100,000 people took to the streets in Berlin in solidarity with the people of Gaza. This is the largest protest to […]
On September 24, a significant protest was organised in Pune by Shramik Hakk Andolan, a registered labour union associated with New Socialist Alternative, to highlight the persistent and unresolved problems faced by construction workers. The […]
After a week of public disagreement between the two left MPs – Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana – who launched the call for ‘Your Party’, the show is back on the road. It is now […]
It has been more than a year since the current government, led by Anura Kumara Dissanayake, came to power. Since the National People’s Power (NPP) government took office, there has been ongoing debate about its […]
Since the fall of the Assad regime in December 2024, the HTS (Hai’at Rahrir ash Sham – Committee for the Liberation of the Levant) under Ahmed al-Sharaa, also known as Abu Muhammad al-Jolani, has been […]
On 27 September, the largest mass demonstration to date in Germany calling for solidarity with the people of Gaza and the West Bank and against occupation, displacement and war by the Israeli government could take […]
The Italian working class are beginning to take centre stage in the fight for the end to the brutal genocide inflicted on the people of Gaza by the Israeli state. In the middle of August […]
Nepal has now joined the long list of developing nations revolting against a rotten and corrupt ruling elite. The immediate trigger was the government’s decision to ban 26 social media platforms on Thursday, 4 September. […]
The following statement by Gauche Révolutionnaire (Revolutionary Left- CWI France) is in response to the 18 September strike action by French workers against the budget plans of the government of President Emmanuel Macron. The budget […]
Workers’ movement must urgently respond! The ‘Unite the Kingdom’ march in London on 13 September sounds a warning that the workers’ movement must urgently respond to. Police estimate that 110,000 took to the streets in […]
In March 2020, Ludovic Orban of the National Liberal Party (PNL) hilariously celebrated his anti-worker government reaching the “ripe age of three months”. The next day the government fell. At the beginning of this summer, […]
The following article by Michael Lenin from the Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI Nigeria) looks at the explosive events in Nepal, which saw mass youth protests lead to the fall of the Prime Minisiter, Sharma Oli. […]
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 […]
Economic protests turned into a struggle against oppression and for security What many young Kenyans saw as the third political revolution in Kenya against a ruling class whose trail of blood and corruption has been […]
On the fifty-second anniversary of General Augusto Pinochet’s coup in Chile socialistwprld.net is reposting a 2013 article by Tony Saunois, CWI Secretary, examining those events. Tony’s 2023 book, Chile – How and Why the Revolution […]
On Monday, 8 September, the new school year began in Romania. Teachers boycotted the usual opening ceremonies and took to the streets instead, protesting new austerity measures being introduced by the government. Up to 10,000 […]
On Monday 8 September, as expected, French prime minister François Bayrou lost a confidence vote in France’s National Assembly. Meanwhile, a groundswell from below has been growing towards a day of strikes and protests across […]
Just ten months into Prabowo Subianto’s tenure as President, social unrest is reaching a peak in Indonesia. On Friday, August 29th, a gig economy food delivery worker was killed after being run over by a […]
Nationwide protests against Israeli genocide in Gaza took place in every major city across Australia on Sunday, 24 August. Organisers claim this is the single biggest gathering for Palestine since the 7 October attacks in […]
From Socialism Today, magazine of the Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales). Seventy years ago on 26 June 1955 around three thousand people assembled in a field in Kliptown, just outside Johannesburg. They were gathered to […]
Today, September 2, 2025, marks exactly a year since the Tinubu government arraigned Adaramoye Michael Lenin and nine other #EndBadGovernance protesters over their role in the #EndBadGovernance protest, which took place between August 1 and […]
We will take 11 March, 1990, when President Patricio Aylwin took office, as a starting point. He was presented as a great democrat, despite the fact that this character was one of the main promoters […]
From Socialism Today, magazine of the Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales). France Insoumise is the main left organisation in France, with 70 MPs and nearly half a million members. Leïla Messaoudi of Gauche Révolutionnaire (CWI […]
With French president Emmanuel Macron at a record low level of popularity, he faces the prospect of losing his third prime minister within a year – as prime minister Francois Bayrou has called a confidence […]
Hundreds of deaths in Gaza from malnutrition, almost half of them children. Hundreds of people slaughtered while seeking food. And now the Israeli military says it is preparing for the forcible displacement of one million […]
Socialistworld.net has received the following urgent solidary appeal from worker activists in Iran. We ask our readers to urgently raise the case of Sharifeh Mohammadi at union branches and other labour movement meetings. Socialistworld.net Dear […]
After the arrest of Istanbul’s popular mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, authoritarian President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s main political rival, Turkey was shaken by a courageous mass movement that lasted for weeks. Heroic mass movements of workers and […]
The arrest of Ranil Wickremesinghe, the former Sri Lankan president, even on what some might dismiss as a minor charge, is not a “victory” in itself but a political warning. For decades, the ruling class […]
The following document on Asia was presented to the 14th World Congress of the Committee for a Workers’ International, as background information. The congress convened in Berlin, Germany, from 27 to 31 July 2025. Delegates attended […]
The following thesis on perspectives for European capitalism was agreed at the 14th World Congress of the Committee for a Workers’ International, which convened in Berlin, Germany, from 27 to 31 July 2025. Delegates attended in […]
The recent summit between President Trump and President Putin, held in Alaska under the guise of “peace diplomacy,” and the hurriedly convened meeting of Ukraine leader, Vladimir Zelensky, and leading European powers at the White […]
Socialist Party Scotland and our forerunner, Militant, have a rich history of struggle within the labour and trade union movement, tracing our roots back to the early days of Trotsky’s International Left Opposition against Stalinism. […]
In recent years, the Sahel region of West Africa, stretching from Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger to parts of Chad and Guinea, has witnessed a growing wave of anti-imperialist sentiment which has been expressed through […]
Mass protests broke out in Luanda, the capital city of Angola, on 28 July, in one of the latest popular protests in Africa against poverty and oppression. At the behest of the International Monetary Fund, […]
Over 1,000 Palestinians in Gaza have been massacred queuing for food in the past weeks. Television screens are filled with images of children starving and malnourished, hundreds of whom are hospitalised each day, dozens dying. […]
In one week, more than 700,000 people have signed up to the yourparty.uk website to support Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana’s initiative to build a new left party. The party doesn’t yet exist, and so there is […]
Trump’s second presidency has brought new waves of instability to the world economy, not least his tariff campaign. Related to this is the rivalry between a declining US imperialism and a rising China that will […]
On 21 July over one thousand trade unionists – on Zoom and via a live feed – met to discuss the fight for a new workers’ party. The meeting arose from a petition for trade […]
Former left Labour Westminster MP Zarah Sultana’s announcement that she intends to co-lead a new party with former Left Labour Party leader, Jeremy Corbyn, has placed even more pressure on already stress-fractured Green Parties in […]
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 […]
Three years after the election of left-wing candidate Gustavo Petro as President of Colombia, the country is in crisis. Following the failure of negotiations with the ELN guerrilla group, the assassination attempt of right-wing presidential […]
Plans have emerged for the forced displacement of all inhabitants of Gaza into a camp built on the ruins of Rafah. The proposal, which is supported by US president Trump as a step towards forced […]
2024 was the hottest year on record. The last 10 years have been the 10 hottest years on record. It has now been 48 years since the earth had a colder than average year. Almost […]
The New Socialist Alternative (NSA) in Pune city, India, took part in the rally organized as part of the one-day general strike held on 9 July 2025. The NSA-linked union, Shramik Hakk Andolan, also mobilized […]
Monday July 7 saw 31 people killed, over 100 injured and over 500 arrested as mass protests erupted again across Kenya, driven by widespread anger at a government assault on the living standards of ordinary […]
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