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Nigeria

Mob killing of student for “blasphemy” indicates danger of descent into full blown barbarism in Nigeria

May 19, 2022 Peluola Adewale, Organising Secretary, DSM (CWI Nigeria)

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 […]

Ireland North

Ireland North: Sinn Féin emerges as largest party in Assembly elections

May 18, 2022 Militant Left (CWI Ireland) reporters

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 […]

Britain

Britain: Lessons of the P&O mass sackings

May 16, 2022 Rob Williams from Socialism Today (Issue 257 May 2022)

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 […]

Russia

How Russia’s gangster capitalists seized power

May 14, 2022 Peter Taaffe from Socialism Today (Issue 257 May 2022)

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. […]

Britain

Seize the oil giants’ cash mountain

May 13, 2022 Sare O’Neill, South East London Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)

£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 […]

USA

US: Build a movement to defend and expand abortion rights

May 12, 2022 Independent Socialist Group (ISG), USA

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, […]

Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka: Prime Minister forced to resign but mobilises his support to attack protesters – trade unions call for indefinite strike in response

May 10, 2022 TU Senan, CWI

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 […]

Britain

Britain: Anger, disenchantment and voting shifts

May 10, 2022 Judy Beishon, Socialist Party executive committee

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 […]

Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka in flames

May 10, 2022 Srinath Perera, United Socialist Party (CWI Sri Lanka)

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 […]

Nigeria

Nigerians suffer a cost of living crisis – organise and mobilise for mass actions now!

May 9, 2022 Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI in Nigeria) reporters

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 […]

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