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 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 a gunman a week ago, and similarities with […]
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 […]
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