This is a statement by the CWI Women’s Commission. “We are not silent. We are not scared. We are not obeying.” — Istanbul, Turkey — chants from protest against gender violence International Women’s Day 2019 in defiance of a state ban on the demonstration and police use of tear gas “My life is not your […]
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Human beings are part of the ecosystem, capitalism is not! Join us to fight capitalism and replace it with a society based on need, not profits. Make the individual choice that really matters – join us in fighting for an internationalist socialist alternative! Watch video: https://youtu.be/NezyXZj6uSk
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This resolution was unanimously agreed at August meeting of CWI’s International Executive Committee. By bringing down two long-standing dictators within a week in April of this year, the revolutionary uprisings in Algeria and Sudan have confirmed the analysis made by the CWI eight years ago, while stunning most bourgeois scholars and commentators. At the time, […]
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This resolution was unanimously agreed at August meeting of CWI’s International Executive Committee. We are rapidly approaching a decisive turning point in world relations with a slowdown in the world economy increasingly pointing towards a deeper downturn, including the possibility of a 2008-9 type financial crash. Such a development would find capitalism far less prepared […]
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A minority of the CWI has bureaucratically forced through an unfortunate and damaging split in the worlds largest and most influential revolutionary socialist organization, the Committee for a Workers’ International. Those who follow the CWI, in its publications and activities, will be aware of the important debates that have taken place in our revolutionary socialist […]
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Written by CWI supporters in Sudan. Down with the military junta, all power to the Sudanese workers and the people After a new round of unfruitful negotiations with the military plotters, the Sudanese Professional Association (SPA) has finally decided to call for a countrywide general strike. The Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI) and Socialist […]
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Written by CWI supporters in Sudan. Four months of mass struggle on the streets, with a ceaseless flow of demonstrations, strikes, occupations and sit-ins, culminated in the removal from power of dictator Omar al-Bashir one month ago. Since then, a continuing mass sit-in in front of the headquarters of the General Command of the Sudanese […]
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After 30 years of dictatorship in Sudan, historic mass protests have achieved the fall of President Omar Al-Bashir in a forced ‘palace coup’ by the generals. Following this, a ‘transitional military council’ was established, with defence minister Amhed Awad Ibn Auf sworn in as president. He is part of the old regime and a brutal […]
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This year, around the world, there is a rising tide of mass demos, strikes and walkouts against climate change. Over 70,000 people braced a cold wet Sunday, on January 27, for the largest climate march in Belgian history. There have been mounting demonstrations throughout Europe. In Germany, Switzerland, and France, working people and students are […]
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How can the workers achieve power? Following the overthrow of the Shah in February 1979, a supporter of Militant, the forerunner of the Socialist Party, travelled to Iran. In a number of subsequent articles the revolution’s development and the issues facing the workers’ movement then – and still relevant today – were addressed. We reprint […]
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