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On October 26th and 27th elections took place in Chile for regional governors and Cores (Deputies) for the regional governments and mayors and councilors for the municipal governments. The elections were held in the middle […]

On Friday, 1st November 2024, the Nigerian government arraigned 76 protesters, including 32 minors aged between 14 and 17, for ‘terrorism and treason’ at a Federal High Court in Abuja and January 24, 2025 was […]

Recently, DNB, a bank in Norway with both private and state ownership, reported quarterly earnings of NOK 15.2 billion (around £1 billion sterling), attributed largely to significant increases in mortgage repayments for workers and pensioners. […]

Months of power cuts and rising prices are undermining Egyptian President Abdel Fatah el-Sisi. His government is under growing pressure from all sides. In July, Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly complained, “No one expected the heatwaves […]

World relations between imperialist and capitalist powers are in an unprecedented state of flux and turmoil. The unipolar world dominated by US imperialism that briefly existed following the collapse of the former USSR in 1991 […]

In the election for the Japanese House of Representatives, held on 27th of October, the Liberal Democratic Party/Komeito coalition government of Shigeru Ishiba lost its majority. The government was expecting to do badly in the […]

The day after the article below by a leader of the Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM) was published, the Nigeria Labour Congress finally issued a statement entitled ‘NIGERIA’S ECONOMIC MESS AND IMF’S DENIAL: “ESAU’S HANDS BUT […]

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 […]

After years of riding high in the polls, Sinn Féin [‘Ourselves Alone’ – a republican party historically linked to the Provisional Irish Republican Army] are mired in a deep crisis. Just a few weeks from […]

President Macron’s party was beaten in the European Elections in France. It was an anti-Macron referendum that resulted in a victory for the far right Le Pen’s party Rassemblement National (RN) in an election with […]

“Things will get worse before they get better.” “The Tories left an even bigger mess than we realised.” “There’s a £22 billion black hole” – or is that £40 billion now? How many more ways […]

Alan Hardman was the first printer of the Militant (the predecessor newspaper of Socialist – weekly of the Socialist Party England & Wales (CWI)) and produced hundreds of political cartoons for publication in our party […]

For the first time in Sri Lanka’s history, the country finds itself under the leadership of a president—Anura Kumara Dissanayake—who hails from a party with a left-leaning background. However, despite the media’s portrayal of him […]

Today, in the early afternoon, twenty two EndBadGovernance protesters arrested for marking the murder of EndSARS protesters were released by the police. The #EndSARS struggle of October 2020 is a watershed in the history of Nigeria. […]

Brutal wars have repeatedly been carried out by Israeli military forces on Gaza since a ruthless blockade was imposed on that strip of land in 2007. Each one brought terrible death and destruction but the […]

The New Popular Front (NPF) received the most seats in the recent parliamentary elections in France, 182 out of the 577 total in the National Assembly. Standing on a programme of reducing the pension age […]

What do you make of Keir Starmer’s first 100 days in office, which came to an end on 12 October? His Labour Party had a +6 ‘net favourability’ rating upon taking office. 90 days in […]

Though the establishment parties somehow survived the Aragalaya (The Struggle) in 2022, they were never able to win back the full trust of the masses. The ruling Rajapaksa family then stepped back from governmental positions […]

For years now it has been apparent that Norwegian Air Shuttle has been using anti-union and union-busting tactics. In the pre-pandemic years the Air Shuttle bosses wanted a name list of Swedish pilots which the […]

The war in Ukraine catapulted to the top of the news on 6 August when Ukrainian forces launched an unexpected assault over the border into the Kursk region of Russia. They rapidly took over 400 […]

On Saturday 5 October 2024, the Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales) took part in the biggest anti-war demonstration since the first months of the onslaught on Gaza, marching on 10 Downing Street, the New […]

The Samson and Goliath cranes in Belfast shipyard continue to dominate the city’s skyline but workers in the shipbuilding sector once again face an insecure future. For more than 160 the Harland & Wolff has […]

What happens when there is a crisis but no mass workers’ party In the general elections on September 29 the far-right Freedom party (FPÖ), led by Herbert Kickl, emerged victorious with 28.8%, 1.4 million votes, […]

Drop Trumped-up Charges and Release all Detainees Unconditionally Now! We of the Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM) formally announce the release of Adaramoye Michael Lenin and Mosiu Sodiq after almost two months in the captivity of […]

The recently concluded presidential elections have shocked Sri Lanka’s established, corrupt, family-centered political parties. The result, favouring the The Janatha Vimukthi Peramun (JVP –  ’People’s Liberation Front’), which led the National People’s Power (NPP) electoral […]

Build Action Committees at Workplaces, Campuses and Communities For a Rolling Mass Action and a 48-hour General Strike Now! One incontrovertible fact in Nigeria today is that the past one and half years of President […]

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 […]

From Socialism Today, magazine of the Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales).    It has been a tale of woes and anguish in Nigeria as the government, led by Bola Tinubu, has continued to unleash multiple […]

Lough Neagh is a freshwater lake in Northern Ireland and is the largest lake on the island of Ireland and in the United Kingdom. According to Northern Ireland Water, it supplies 40.7% of Northern Ireland’s drinking water. Lough Neagh is also home […]

In the presidential election held on September 21, 2024, Anura Kumara Dissanayake won the presidency by receiving 5,740,179 votes, or 42.3 percent. He will go down in history as the president who failed to secure […]

Socialist change and planning needed to combat climate change After weeks of heatwaves with temperatures reaching up to 35°Celsius, a flood wave is currently moving through southern Poland. Regions in the Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia, […]

Sri Lanka’s presidential election held last Saturday resulted in electing Anura Kumara Dissanayake as the ninth executive president of the country. He polled 5,634,915 votes as against his nearest rival Sajith Premadasa who polled 4,363,035 […]

The right-wing Israeli government has set about turning parts of Lebanon into rubble, as it has already done in Gaza following its decision to escalate its war against Hezbollah to a much higher level.  The […]

The ninth presidential election that took place on 21 September 2024 is nothing like what has happened in the past. It is the first election since the 2022 mass movement (Aragalaya) that ousted the former […]

The statement below was issued by the Workers’ Party of Argentina (PO, Partido Obrero). The CWI gives its solidarity to the PO, the piquetero movement and the working class and poor masses struggling against the […]

Steelworkers in Community and GMB unions  in Wales are awaiting the results of a vote on whether to accept a settlement with Tata Steel. Unite the Union representatives decided that the terms were not good […]

From Socialism Today, magazine of the Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales). Originally published under the title “Boy Trouble”. Recently there has been a proliferation of articles, books, reports and surveys looking at boys and young […]

The contrast between the insurgent mood that marked the run-up to September 18 2014 and the prospects for Scottish independence today, on the face of it, could not be more different. ‘Indyref 1’ was an […]

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 […]

The author is also a DIE LINKE member. How can the Party’s left react to the decline? The crisis of the Left Party (Die Linke) has not come to an end even with the departure […]

Youth Rights Campaign (YRC) Condemns Conditions of Bail Granted to Adaramoye Michael Lenin and Nine Others Demands Dropping of Trumped-up Charges and Release of all Detainees We Call for Solidarity from NLC, TUC and Civil […]

Over 75 trade unionists and international visitors attended a conference organised by the Free Trade Union Centre in Sri Lanka, which debated the way forward for workers in that country following the protests of 2022, […]

From Socialism Today, magazine of the Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales). What Iranians Want: Women, Life, Freedom is described as the first major book on the 2022-23 uprising in Iran. Protests were sparked in […]

But Struggle Continues to drop all charges and free all jailed #EndBadGovernance activists On Wednesday September 11, Adaramoye Michael Lenin and nine others were granted bail by a Federal High Court at the Federal Capital […]

The Partido Obrero (PO – Workers’ Party) of Argentina stands in solidarity with the campaign for the release of hundreds of demonstrators detained in Nigeria, particularly in the days of last August, in the protest […]

Two months into the new Labour government, the Trades Union Congress (TUC – which brings together 5.5 million workers in trade unions across the public and private sector) held its annual Congress. At a time […]

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. […]

Elections in Eastern federal states show massive dissatisfaction with national government  The question was not whether the September 1 state elections Saxony and Thuringia (two of the so-called “new federal states” which formed part of […]