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World Social Forum Montréal

August 17, 2016Committee for a Workers’ International

Committee for a Workers’ International is a member of the Committee for a Workers’ International. The Committee for a Workers’ International (Of which Socialist Alternative Canada is part) had a brilliant intervention during the week of the World Social Forum in Montréal. With over 1,200 events covering a huge range of topics and over 10,000 […]

Greece: Syriza comes to power, as old ruling parties collapse

January 27, 2015Committee for a Workers’ International

Interview with Andros Payiatsos, from Xekinima (CWI Greece). Left parties fail to form government – Syriza goes into coalition with populist right Independent Greeks What is the importance of the Greek election results? We can describe the result as of historical significance because it represented the collapse of the old forces that ruled the Greek […]

Greece: Towards a Syriza government?

January 9, 2015Committee for a Workers’ International

Interview with Andros Payiatsos, Xekinima (CWI in Greece). At the end of last year a constitutional crisis arose in austerity-ridden Greece with the failure to elect a president. This triggered an early general election to be called for 25 January. Much to the panic of the capitalist class internationally, Syriza (the left party) leads the […]

Taiwan: Occupation of parliament ends after 23 days

April 13, 2014Committee for a Workers’ International

Interview with Sally Tang Mei-ching, CWI participant in Taipei protests. What are the lessons of the island’s ‘sunflower movement’? Taiwan has witnessed an unprecedented mass protest movement since 18 March when around 200 students occupied the main chamber of the Legislative Yuan (parliament) to stop the ratification of the contentious Cross Strait Service Trade Agreement […]

Greece: Still in the eye of the storm

February 28, 2014Committee for a Workers’ International

Committee for a Workers’ International is a member of Interview with Andros Payiatsos, Xekinima (CWI in Greece). From the outside, it can appear there’s a certain pause in the struggle in Greece. Is this true? There is a certain lull in the movement, compared to the titanic battles particularly of 2011, but there is no […]

Tunisia: “Mass struggle constrained by Popular Front and UGTT leaderships”

November 10, 2013Committee for a Workers’ International

Interview with Hidouri Abdessalem, member of the regional UGTT office for secondary education, Sidi Bouzid from CWI Tunisia. The talks held between the government and the opposition parties, called the ‘initiative for a national dialogue’, were suspended on Monday 4 November. In short, this ‘initiative for a national dialogue’ is nothing but an attempt by […]