CWI
Mayday 2019: Photo Gallery
Like every year, International Workers’ Day was marked by protests and rallies in many countries around the world. Below is a collection of pictures featuring the CWI interventions in some of these countries.
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Spain
Spanish general election anticipates new upheavals and need for revolutionary socialist alternative
The general election which took place on 28 April in the Spanish state, like elections throughout Europe, at this time, was marked by a deep polarization. The election came on the heel of the revolutionary […]
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Spanish general election anticipates new upheavals and need for revolutionary socialist alternative
The general election which took place on 28 April in the Spanish state, like elections throughout Europe, at this time, was marked by a deep polarization. The election came on the heel of the revolutionary […]
May Day
CWI May Day greetings to workers and the oppressed fighting against capitalism worldwide
The Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI) sends revolutionary May Day greetings to all workers and oppressed people fighting against capitalism worldwide. We commemorate the struggles and sacrifices of past generations of fighters and martyrs in […]
India
India: General election shows crying need for independent socialist alternative
The huge exercise of India’s 2019 General Election is under way across the country’s 29 states and seven Union territories.
Denmark
SAS walkout disrupts Nordic air travel
Hundreds of flights in Norway, Sweden and Denmark have been canceled as 1400 pilots for Scandinavian carrier SAS began strike action this Friday. Pilots took the step of escalating to strike action after collective bargaining […]
ARCHIVE | Socialist Alternative was the CWI section in the USA until 2019
US: Stop & Shop Strike Over: A Review and Lessons for the Future
The largest private sector strike in the U.S. in the past three years has ended. For eleven hard-fought days 31,000 Stop & Shop grocery-store workers across New England struck against company attacks on their wages […]
Portugal
45th anniversary of the Portuguese revolution
This week marks the 50th anniversary of the ‘carnation’ Portuguese revolution. A half-century of brutal right-wing dictatorship rule was swept aside in a day. The revolution started at 12.25 am, on Thursday 25 April 1974, […]
Ireland North
Ireland North: Who are the ‘dissident’ republicans?
Although violence has remained at a relatively low level in Northern Ireland since the ending of the ‘Troubles’, the recent killing of the young journalist, Lyra McKee, in Derry city, by a republican armed group, […]
Ireland North
Ireland North: After the death of Lyra McKee unions must show way forward
The killing of Lyra McKee on Thursday 19 April sent a wave of shock across Northern Ireland. Lyra was only 29 years old but had already made a name for herself as a journalist, an […]