Tony Saunois is a member of the Committee for a Workers’ International. Ten million killed and more than ten million seriously injured The first world war began 100 years ago, unleashing slaughter on an unprecedented scale. This anniversary has featured prominently in the capitalist media. Most fail, however, to explain why millions of working-class people […]
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Alan Jones and Ty Moore are members of Socialist Alternative in the US. Celebrating the 80th Anniversary of the 1934 Minneapolis Strikes This year marks the 80th anniversary of one of the greatest labor revolts in U.S. history: the strikes of the Minneapolis Teamsters in 1934. Led by socialists, this historic strike opened an era […]
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Manny Thain is a member of the Socialist Party (CWI in England & Wales). A half-century of fascist rule was swept aside in a day This year marks the 40th anniversary of the military coup of April 25, 1974, which opened the doors to the Portuguese revolution of 1974-75. This anniversary is taking place at […]
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Tony Saunois is a member of the Committee for a Workers’ International. In re-building a socialist movement, lessons of coup need to be learnt The terrorist attack on the Twin Towers in New York in 2001 was not the first ’9/11’. In Chile, on 11 September 1973, a bloody coup, led by General Augusto Pinochet […]
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Eljeer Hawkins is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. Martin Luther King moved from a position for a gradual reform of capitalism towards an understanding that more radical ideas were needed. The 50th anniversary of the historic March on Washington for jobs and freedom falls on 28 August 2013. It was on this […]
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