Ireland North
“Enough is enough”: 20,000 Northern Ireland civil servants strike against pay restraint
Up to 20,000 civil servants across Northern Ireland took strike action on 26 July.
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Archive
Archive Material
The archive pages linked below contain historic material by CWI sections and members that broke from the CWI in 2019. When the articles were originally published on socialistworld.net these organisations and individuals still stood on […]
Puerto Rico
Mass movement topples governor of Puerto Rico
Two weeks of almost continuous mass protests have forced the resignation of the governor of Puerto Rico, Ricardo Rossello’. Monday 22 July culminated in a general strike and the largest protests in the history of […]
Britain
Boris, Brexit and British capitalism: unpredictable, volatile and unstable
Boris Johnson’s victory in this summer’s Tory party leadership election will probably turn out to be the most predictable political event of 2019.
Ireland North
Harland and Wolff workers occupy Belfast shipyard demanding re-nationalisation
Harland and Wolff is the sole remaining shipbuilding business in the Belfast shipyard. The shipbuilding industry in Belfast has a four hundred year history and was most famously associated with the construction of the ill-fated […]
Britain
NSSN conference 2019: at the heart of trade union struggle
The hall was again packed for the 2019 annual conference of the National Shop Stewards Network (NSSN), the rank-and-file trade union organisation set up initially by the RMT transport union and its late, and missed, […]
CWI
Refounding the Committee for a Workers’ International on the basis of a Trotskyist programme and method
At an historic meeting held in London between July 22nd and 25th over 200 delegates and visitors to an international conference of the International Faction, ‘In Defence of a Working Class Trotskyist CWI’ took the decision to […]
Nigeria
SPN DEMANDS THE IMPLEMENTATION OF N30, 000 MINIMUM WAGE FOR ALL PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SECTOR WORKERS AND WITHOUT RETRENCHMENT
PRESIDENT BUHARI IS PAYING LIP SERVICE TO N30, 000 MINIMUM WAGE LABOUR SHOULD MOBILISE WORKERS FOR A ONE-DAY WARNING GENERAL STRIKE AND MASS PROTEST SPN DEMANDS THE IMPLEMENTATION OF N30, 000 MINIMUM WAGE FOR ALL […]
Britain
Socialist Party conference reaffirms the CWI’s historic approach
On Sunday 21 July over 200 delegates at a special conference of the Socialist Party (England/Wales) voted overwhelmingly, 173 – 35 with 0 abstentions, to sponsor an international conference to reconstitute the Committee for a […]
Science & Technology
50 years since Apollo 11 – ‘One giant leap’: how political conflict launched the moon landing
On 20 July 1969, for the first time in history, humans walked on the moon. Since 1972, we haven’t been back. In 1961, US president John F Kennedy promised to put a man on the […]