2019: A turning point

Per-Åke Westerlund is a member of Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (CWI in Sweden). 2019 marks a definite political turning point globally. Particularly in the last months, we have seen mass struggles and general strikes around the world with revolutionary characteristics. This is a mass explosion, a result of accumulated anger and discontent against those in power, their […]

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Leon Trotsky

“We know our duty. We will fight to the end.” – the life of Leon Trotsky

Rob Jones is a member of Sotsialisticheskaya Alternativa (CWI in Russia). November the 7th was the 140th anniversary of the birth of Lev Davidovich Trotsky, with Lenin, leader of the Russian revolution. In this article from the Russian section of the CWI, Rob Jones looks at Trotsky’s life.  On 20th August 1940, the Stalinist agent […]

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Continuing the Fight for International Socialism

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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CWI Majority Declaration

Statement of CWI majority. Between August 12 and 16, the majority of the International Executive Committee (IEC), elected at the last World Congress of the Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI) in 2016, met to discuss the split of the CWI, initiated by the international minority faction (IDWCTCWI) in the period after the November 2018 […]

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Historic CWI IEC meeting shows political strength of CWI majority

Andy Moxley is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. The recent meeting of the CWI’s International Executive Committee came on the heels of a 7-month internal debate, and following the departure from the CWI of a minority led by most of the organisation’s former International Secretariat. All in all, the meeting was a […]

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In Defence of Marxism, 80 years on

Per-Åke Westerlund is a member of Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (CWI in Sweden). Leon Trotsky’s In Defence of Marxism is a book every Marxist needs to study. It’s a collection of letters and key documents from a sharp debate within the Socialist Workers Party in the US in 1939-40. It’s a very rich book, on application of […]

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Cover page of Karl Marx's Ecosocialism by Kohei-Saito

Karl Marx’s ecological socialism is a guide for today’s struggle

Arne Johansson is a member of Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (CWI in Sweden). Too many socialists, even among those who like to see themselves as revolutionary Marxists, have been sadly late in discovering and understanding the ecological analysis of capitalism’s irreparable metabolic rift with the planet and nature that Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels began working on […]

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Cover page of Marxism and the Philosophy of Science by Helena Sheehan

Book Review: Marxism and the Philosophy of Science

George Martin Fell Brown is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. Marxists are primarily known for their concern with the development of human society and political struggle. As materialists, however, Marxists necessarily look to developments in science and new ways of understanding the material world. The Marxist interest in science entails both a […]

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Portraits of Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht

Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht 100th anniversary

Robert Bechert is a member of the Committee for a Workers’ International. In January 1919 Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht, two of the outstanding leaders of the German and international working class movements, were murdered. They are figures who still today symbolise uncompromising opposition to capitalism and imperialist war and who fought and died for […]

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The revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg

Peter Taaffe is a member of the Socialist Party (CWI in England & Wales). On 15 January 1919, Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht, the finest brains of the German working class and its most heroic figures, were brutally murdered by the bloodthirsty, defeated German military, backed to the hilt by the cowardly social-democratic leaders. The […]

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