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Kurdistan

Kurdish referendum declared illegal – For a united socialist struggle for self-determination

October 26, 2017 Paula Mitchell, Socialist party (CWI in England & Wales)

In just a few weeks the situation for Kurdish people in Iraqi Kurdistan has gone from euphoria to anger and fear.
Europa

25 y 26 de octubre: Aulas vacías y decenas de miles de estudiantes en las calles contra la represión franquista en Catalunya

October 26, 2017 Sindicat d'Estudiants

No podreu empresonar tot un poble! Pincha aquí para ver la galería de fotos La huelga general estudiantil convocada por el Sindicat d’Estudiants, y a la que también se han sumado los compañeros del SEPC [...]
Spain

Catalonia: stop the Spanish state repression!

October 25, 2017 Editorial of The Socialist, paper of the Socialist Party (CWI in England & Wales), written by Tony Saunois, CWI

The dramatic events that have shaken Catalonia and the Spanish state have national and international implications. The decision of the Spanish government – led by the right-wing PP government under Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy – [...]
Russian Revolution

Russia, October 1917: When workers took power

October 25, 2017 Hannah Sell, from The Socialist (weekly paper of the Socialist Party England & Wales)

With monotonous predictability the centenary of the Russian revolution has led to an outpouring of bile – not aimed in the main at the ‘acceptable’ February revolution – but at October. A cacophony of slander [...]
Youth Against Racism in Europe

25th anniversary: Youth Against Racism in Europe’s 40,000-strong Brussels’ demonstration

October 24, 2017 Geert Cool, Blokbuster spokesperson

24 October 1992. Young people from all over Europe arrive in Brussels to demonstrate against racism and fascism. At the front of the demonstration, organised by Youth Against Racism in Europe (YRE), are thousands of [...]

USA | Mamdani’s Victory – An Important Opportunity to Build a Mass Movement

November 7, 2025

Zohran Mamdani, a self-described socialist, running as the official Democratic Party candidate, has won the New York Mayoral election. He is the first candidate since 1969 to win over one million votes in the city, […]

What does Mamdani represent and what attitude should socialists take?

October 7, 2025

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 […]

Mamdani: Rocking the Boat, or Keeping It Afloat?

October 7, 2025

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 […]

The World Impact of Two Years of War on Gaza – and what lies ahead?

October 6, 2025

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 […]

General Strike Action Across Italy in Response to Israeli State’s Attack Against Gaza Flotilla

October 4, 2025

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 […]

100,000 at Berlin ‘Together for Gaza’ Demonstration

October 2, 2025

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 […]

Mass Protests Against Netanyahu as Gaza Slaughter Continues

March 28, 2025

Mass protests have erupted across Israel, with over 100,000 people demonstrating in Tel Aviv and other cities on 22 March. Protesters blocked highways, surrounded the Israeli parliament in a makeshift encampment and endured beatings by […]

Hamas and the Palestinian National Liberation Struggle

January 4, 2024

A printable version of this article can be downloaded here. The Israeli army is laying waste to Gaza. Whole communities are being destroyed and entire families wiped-out. The scale of displacement, as people are forced […]

The Roots of the Israel-Palestine Conflict and the War on Gaza

December 8, 2023

The world’s imperialist powers have always intervened in the Middle East for their own political, strategic and economic interests. On the one hand dishing out investment, aid, trade deals and promises of protection, and on […]

Ukraine’s fate in the Trumpian world

August 20, 2025

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 [...]

Trump’s Ukraine Policy Rips Up the Western Military ‘Consensus’

March 7, 2025

If anyone had doubts about the second Donald Trump administration unravelling the so-called ‘world order’, they will have had a sobering experience over the last few weeks. Trump has ditched the normal niceties of international [...]

Jean-Luc Mélenchon‘s ‘Now the people – revolution in the 21st century’ – character, programme and methods of the new radical left

October 23, 2025

This year has seen France plunged into one of the most serious political and social crises since the founding of the 5th Republic by Charles De Gaulle in 1958, when a ‘soft’ coup installed the […]

Right-Wing Populism and Polarisation

July 22, 2024

The phenomenon of right-wing populism is not new in most countries, but there is much to suggest that it has reached a new level. Not only because in opinion polls and elections the share of […]

IRELAND | Presidential Election – the Key Issues

October 10, 2025

The presidential elections are in full swing in Ireland. Last week, one of the three candidates, Jim Gavin, backed by Fianna Fáil, a governing coalition party, along with Fine Gael, abandoned the race after it […]

FRANCE | One Million Workers Strike Against Macron Government’s Budget Plans

September 22, 2025

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 […]

ROMANIA | Unpopular Austerity Policies Push Coalition Government to Brink of Collapse

September 20, 2025

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, […]

SERBIA | 800,000 Protest Against Vučić Government

March 26, 2025

The biggest protest in Serbian history happened on 15th March in the capital Belgrade. The upper estimate is 800,000 people; the entire population of Serbia is less than seven million. It was a culmination of […]

AUSTRIA | New Coalition of Social Democrats, Conservatives and Liberals Plans Cuts

March 20, 2025

On September 29 in 2024 parliamentary elections took place in Austria. But it was not until March 2025 that a new government was formed. It took three separate negotiating attempts before it could be formed: […]

GERMANY | Federal Election Disaster for Establishment Parties

February 26, 2025

The Left is the ray of hope against cuts and racism The result of the federal election is a slap in the face of the established, pro-capitalist parties. The only parties that won were those […]

Sri Lanka: What is the class character of the NPP government?

September 26, 2025

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 […]

National People’s Power Wins General Election – Revolution, reform, or rhetoric?

November 18, 2024

Sri Lanka’s general election, held on 14 November, marked a breaking-point in the country’s political history. The National People’s Power (NPP) secured an extraordinary 159 seats, achieving a two-thirds majority in Parliament. This result shocked […]

A Marxist Alternative to Sri Lanka’s Crises

October 21, 2024

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 […]

Nigeria’s 2012 Uprising

January 11, 2022

When Strikes and protests nearly swept a capitalist regime out of power Ten years ago, instead of the festivities that often herald the New Year, Nigerian working people and youth started the year 2012 at […]

Month of EndSARS Turmoil Shakes Buhari Regime

October 28, 2020

Nigeria has passed through nearly a month of turmoil. Video footage of the hated SARS police unit killing a man and driving off in his car was the spark for mass protests. Years of frustration, […]

MADAGASCAR | Mass Protests Bring Down Government in Madagascar

October 8, 2025

Madagascar has been rocked by waves of protests, the largest of their kind on the island in over 15 years. Demonstrations began on 25 September, following the arrest on 19 September of two local politicians […]

NEPAL | Eruption of Mass Protest – what is the way forward?

September 23, 2025

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. […]

INDONESIA | Anger Intensifies in Protest Wave After Worker Killed by Police

September 8, 2025

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 […]

MYANMAR | A Devastating Earthquake Amidst Civil War

April 19, 2025

On March 28th, a 7.7-magnitude earthquake struck Myanmar. The epicenter was located in the border area between Sagaing Region and Mandalay, the country’s second-largest city. The earthquake was the strongest to hit Myanmar since 1912. […]

MOZAMBIQUE | “Revolutionary Atmosphere” as Mass Protests Challenge Ruling Elite

November 22, 2024

Protests have rocked Mozambique since ‘preliminary’ results of presidential and legislative elections held on 9 October declared the ruling Mozambican Liberation Front (Frelimo) the winner. Mozambique can be added to the growing rollcall of neocolonial […]

BANGLADESH | Mass Protests Topple Government – No Trust in Capitalist Elites

August 12, 2024

The revolutionary mass movement in Bangladesh is at a critical juncture. A 17-member interim government has been established, including in it a few young leaders who emerged from the mass protests which toppled the government. […]

KENYA | Mass Protests Force Government to Retreat

June 27, 2024

Mass protests in Kenya have forced the government to withdraw unpopular tax increases. These amounted to a massive attack on the living standards of the middle class, the working class, the poor and young people. […]

SUDAN| Revolutionary Masses Must End Generals’ Counter-Revolutionary Violence

April 25, 2023

A brutal power struggle is under way in Sudan. On 15 April, heavy fighting erupted between different factions of the armed forces. Civilians have abruptly found themselves in war zones, especially in the capital Khartoum. […]

CHILE | Lessons from ‘Chilean October’ Three Years On

October 18, 2022

Friday, October 18, 2019, is marked as the day on which a large-scale revolutionary process began in Chile. A massive mobilization, where millions of young people, workers, women, residents, and social organizations took to the […]

Trump’s Tariff Turmoil

April 16, 2025

James Carville, the political advisor who coined the phrase ‘it’s the economy stupid’ as a campaigning slogan for Democrat Bill Clinton to win the 1992 presidential election, was once asked what he’d like to be […]

The Consequences of Maganomics

January 29, 2025

Trump is back in the White House. Much of the world is gripped by fear about what his second term will mean, as are millions in America – particularly migrants, LGBTQ+ people, and others likely […]

The Truth About the US Inflation Reduction Act

August 19, 2024

Originally published in Socialism Today, magazine of the Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales). This year is the thirtieth birthday of the World Trade Organisation (WTO). It is also the year China opened a WTO […]

The “Takaichi Bounce” – landslide win for the Liberal Democratic Party in Japan’s elections

by John McNeill, Kokusai Rentai / CWI Japan. in Japan

When she called a snap general election for the lower house parliament, Japan’s prime minister Takaichi Sanae said the voters had a choice, “a prime minister Takaichi, a prime minister Noda or even a prime minister Saito”, the leaders of the opposition. For the Japanese working class none of them [...]

SOUTH AFRICA | Stilfontein Mine Crisis

by Marxist Workers Party reporters (CWI in South Africa) in South Africa

In November, a crisis at the Stilfontein mine in the North West province of South Africa, 145 km from Johannesburg, began making international headlines. Up to 4,000 ‘zama zama’ mineworkers had been purposefully trapped underground by [...]

CHINA | China, Mao and the Markets

by Hannah Sell, CWI International Secretariat in China

Originally published in Socialism Today, monthly magazine of the Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales). ‘Mao and Markets’ is an attempt to educate the US capitalist class about the peculiar character of China and to appeal to it to find a way to “productively live with it”. On one level it is an odd read because it attempts to ‘objectively’ explain Maoism in the past and today, [...]

COP climate circus: Socialist change needed to end climate change

by Mark Best, Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales) in Climate Change & Environment

While the global temperature heats up and our television screens are filled with the natural disasters that come with it, world capitalist leaders have jetted off to Brazil, host of this year’s COP climate change conference. With the backdrop of the ongoing deforestation of the Amazon rainforest, attendees will [...]