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ItalyThe 300,000 strong 21 July demonstration and the state repression in Genoa are turning points both in Italy and for the growing worldwide opposition to capitalist globalisation. -
World EconomySummer is usually a period when "not much happens", at least in Europe. But this Summer is like the calm before the storm. The mass demonstration in Genoa and the last general strike in Argentina [...]
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Comment & AnalysisAnyone who participated in the 300,000 strong demonstration against the G8 summit in Genoa on 21 July this year will look back on it as an historic day – a high point. After it, nothing [...]
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Comment & AnalysisThroughout Europe the clashes around the Gothenburg EU summit have been utilised to unleash a propaganda barrage against the growing anti-capitalist movement in general and socialists in particular. Completely wild and undefined accusations of being [...]
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ArgentinaArgentina’s financial crisis is threatening an economic meltdown which could also sink the economies of South and Central America and have a catastrophic impact on the world economy. US imperialism and Argentina’s rulers are attempting [...]
The Struggle for a Revolutionary Party Today
The protracted crisis of global capitalism which is developing at an increasing speed and tempo accompanies an unprecedented crisis in leadership and, partially, the organisation of the working class. The absence of mass revolutionary parties [...]
14th CWI World Congress
WC14 | Congress Report – “Marxists are always optimistic”
“Marxists are always optimistic” – this sentence was quoted at the end of July at a rally in honour of the leading CWI comrade, Peter Taaffe, who died a few months ago. Over [...]
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The Creative Historiography of ‘Internationalist Standpoint’
In favour of a Marxist balance sheet of the CWI split A response to “The implosion of the ISA: Can the good traditions of the CWI be saved?” by Andros Payiatsos [...]
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CWI IN AUSTRIA | From ISA to the CWI – What are the tasks of Marxists today?
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International Socialist Alternative in “serious crisis” – the political roots of an impending split
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Seattle City Councillor Kshama Sawant Not Seeking Reelection
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Struggle and the Ballot Box – No time to step back electorally
Ukraine’s fate in the Trumpian world
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’
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 [...]
Nigeria Solidarity Campaign
NIGERIA | One Year of the ‘Treason Trial’
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 [...]
JAPAN | Election of Right-Populist Takaichi Sanae as Leader of Liberal Democratic Party Precipitates Government Crisis
A week is a long time in politics. The global headlines about Japan having its first woman prime minister, who happened to have played drums in a heavy metal band, to like pork buns, and had Margaret Thatcher as a role model, had hardly sunk in before reality started to [...]
South Africa’s Government of ‘National Unity’
What way forward for the working class? There has been a wailing and gnashing of teeth of biblical proportions on both the left and right of the ideological and political spectrum over what the newly [...]
CHINA | China, Mao and the Markets
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, [...]
INDIA | Construction Workers’ Protest in Pune Over Lapses in Social Security Benefits
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 [...]
Air pollution: an invisible killer, caused by capitalism
Air pollution in the UK kills more than 500 people a week, a report by the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) has estimated. The UK loses £500 million a week to ill health, NHS care and loss of productivity, the report found. The impact of air pollution is not felt equally [...]
Successful Sosialis Alternatif (CWI Malaysia) national meeting
From March 14th to March 16th, Sosialis Alternatif (Socialist Alternative – CWI Malaysia) successfully held a national meeting. This meeting discussed global and local political perspectives, in depth, and will provide clarity of direction in [...]
Peter Taaffe – Hundreds attend funeral of an outstanding revolutionary socialist leader
‘Peter’s last meeting’ was the most special. Linda, Katie, Nancy and the rest of his family, our comrades and friends, put together a day that will never be forgotten by those of us who had [...]
‘Socialism 2024’: Building the Socialist Opposition with Ideas and Action
Hundreds of working-class activists, trade unionists and students poured into the workshops and rallies of Socialism 2024, held in central London, on 9-10 November to discuss how a fighting socialist opposition to Labour leader and [...]
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