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Srebrenica massacre – 25 years on: How capitalist restoration led to war and ‘ethnic cleansing’ in the Balkans

July 15, 2020 Judy Beishon, Socialist Party executive committee

Twenty-five years ago, in July 1995, 8,000 Bosnian Muslim refugees were slaughtered in and around the Bosnian town of Srebrenica – one of the final atrocities in the 1992-95 Bosnian war. The designation of Srebrenica […]

Russia: Week-long vote, full of falsification

July 13, 2020 Alexander Dmitriev

On July 1 the vote for amendments to the Constitution of Russia ended. The real goal of voting was to extend Putin’s rule until 2036 and give the illusion of widespread support of the population. […]

Chile: 50 years since the election of the Popular Unity government

July 10, 2020 CWI

The fiftieth anniversary of the election of the Popular Unity government takes place on 4 September 1970 and represents an opportunity for the international working class movement to remember what this victory represented and draw […]

“A fight for our lives and livelihoods’’ – National Shop Stewards Network conference

July 9, 2020 Kristian O’Sullivan, Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)

A fantastic virtual meeting of up to 300 trade union reps, workers, campaigners, socialists, and international visitors took place on the 4 July as the National Shop Stewards Network (NSSN) held its 2020 summer conference. […]

Hong Kong: Beijing tries to quash fight for democracy

July 8, 2020 Clare Doyle, CWI

Thousands of protesters took to the streets of Hong Kong on 1 July to commemorate the 23rd anniversary of the settlement between London and Beijing which marked the end of more than 150 years of […]

Bangladesh: Stop closure and privatisation of Jute Mills

July 7, 2020 Solidarity statement

We give full support to the workers in Bangladesh fighting to stop the closure, and subsequent privatisation, of state-owned Jute Mills. We condemn the arrest of Jute Mills trade union leaders, Nurul Islam and Waliar […]

Britain: 75th anniversary of the Attlee Labour government

July 6, 2020 Tom Baldwin Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)

The end of World War Two left behind a world in upheaval. Demobilised troops and a war-weary population demanded a better future. Resistance movements in Europe published programmes demanding nationalisation. Workers’ strikes broke out across […]

‘A new era of global capitalist crisis – revolution and counter revolution’

July 3, 2020 Report of CWI international meeting by Philip Stott (Socialist Party Scotland)

Leading representatives of the Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI) met online over the weekend, 27/28 June. The International Executive Committee (IEC) meeting was attended by 70 comrades, from CWI sections from across the world. […]

Belarus: State crackdown after wave of protests

July 2, 2020 Edmund Schluessel (CWI in Finland), and with reports from Belarus

Belarus saw two days of mass protests during the third week of June as people took to the streets to demand an end to rigged elections. President Alexander Lukashenko, who has ruled the country since […]

Ireland North: Union democracy under attack from right wing in NIPSA

July 1, 2020 Tanya Killen, NIPSA activist, and Militant Left (CWI Ireland) member

The Northern Ireland Public Service Alliance (NIPSA) is the largest trade union in the North of Ireland, did have a strong reputation as a democratic union but the recent actions of NIPSA ruling body, the […]