Danny Byrne is a member of ISA’s International Executive. Socialists from 37 countries attended the largest ever international gathering of International Socialist Alternative (formerly the CWI) between 18 and 25 July The first ever ISA Virtual Marxist University was an incredible success. It was full of vibrancy and enthusiasm, and at the same time, was […]
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This is a statement by the Provisional Committee of the CWI and Socialist Alternative (England, Wales and Scotland). As many of our readers are aware, the Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI), the socialist international organization, which Socialist Alternative Canada is a member of, has been through a serious internal crisis since the end of […]
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Danny Byrne is a member of the Committee for a Workers’ International. A Spanish capitalist crisis In last year’s uprising in Catalonia, bitterness at national oppression merged with anti-austerity anger – above all, for hundreds of thousands of workers and young people. The Spanish state’s brutal response only poured fuel on the flames. Reviewing a […]
Continue ReadingDanny Byrne is a member of the Committee for a Workers’ International. Reprinted from the February 2016 issue of Socialism Today. December’s elections broke the hold of the two main capitalist parties for the first time since the Franco dictatorship. The high vote for representatives of workers’ and social movements, and the recovery of the […]
Continue ReadingDanny Byrne is a member of the Committee for a Workers’ International. Debt crisis is back – the class struggle and tasks for the Left Over a decade has passed since the Argentinian financial crash of 2000-2002, which led to one of history’s biggest sovereign defaults. The dominant narrative has it that the ensuing period […]
Continue ReadingDanny Byrne is a member of the Committee for a Workers’ International. Ireland was no exception to the general rejection of pro-austerity governments in the European elections. Three sets of elections took place on 23 May: Local elections across the country; European elections and two by-elections to the Irish parliament. These were the first nationwide […]
Continue ReadingDanny Byrne is a member of the Committee for a Workers’ International. No to a government of “national unity”! For mass action to deal final blow to rotten coalition and impose a workers’ alternative! In the last two weeks, Portugal has been plunged into possibly the deepest and most desperate episode of political crisis since […]
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