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Harland and Wolff workers occupy Belfast shipyard demanding re-nationalisation

July 30, 2019 CWI Reporter, N Ireland

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 […]

NSSN conference 2019: at the heart of trade union struggle

July 29, 2019 Dave Gorton, Unite the Union LE/372 branch officer (personal capacity)

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, […]

Refounding the Committee for a Workers’ International on the basis of a Trotskyist programme and method

July 25, 2019 CWI

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 […]

SPN DEMANDS THE IMPLEMENTATION OF N30, 000 MINIMUM WAGE FOR ALL PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SECTOR WORKERS AND WITHOUT RETRENCHMENT

July 23, 2019 Abiodun Bamigboye, Acting National Chairperson. Chinedu Bosah, National Secretary

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 […]

Socialist Party conference reaffirms the CWI’s historic approach

July 23, 2019 Socialist Party executive committee

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 […]

50 years since Apollo 11 – ‘One giant leap’: how political conflict launched the moon landing

July 20, 2019 Ian Pattison, Socialist Party national committee

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 […]

Sudan masses mobilise against state repression – No support for ‘transitional government’!

July 17, 2019 John Gillman, from The Socialist (weekly paper of the Socialist Party, CWI E&W)

Harrowing scenes are now coming out of Sudan of the 3 June massacre, where doctors report well over 100 people were murdered by the Transitional Military Council (TMC) and general ‘Hemeti’ Dagola’s brutal Rapid Support […]

Taiwan: Pro-CCP media threatens libel case against CWI member

July 16, 2019 International Socialist Forward (CWI in Taiwan)

Libel charges can lead to 2 years imprisonment A leading Taiwan CWI (International Socialist Forward) comrade, Hsu Wei-Yu, is being threatened with libel action by CTi, a large media corporation with links to the Chinese […]

Syriza election defeat after years of imposing austerity on Greek people

July 15, 2019 Niall Mulholland, CWI

The results of the 7 July general election in Greece saw the defeat of Syriza (“Coalition of the Radical Left”). This follows four years during which the Syriza-led government-approved mass privatisations and cuts at the […]

Hong Kong protesters reject Chief Executive’s promises

July 11, 2019 Clare Doyle, CWI

On Tuesday 9 July, Carrie Lam, Hong Kong’s Chief Executive (appointed by Beijing) declared that the controversial extradition bill that has sparked weeks of mass protests is “dead”. Her opponents – now battle-hardened demonstrators who […]