Written by an Iranian Marxist. Forty years ago, a great revolution against a dictatorial monarchy was in progress in Iran. Recalling the heroic scenes of those days still inspires us; scenes of comradeship despite the shortage of goods and fuel due to long days of nationwide strike, initiatives by working people to manage their communities […]
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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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Vincent Kolo is a contributor to chinaworker.info. Capitalism and imperialism were driven out, but political power rested in the hands of a Stalinist communist party It is an especially nervous Communist Party (CCP) regime that presides over the 60th anniversary celebrations of the founding of the People’s Republic of China on 1 October. The regime […]
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Tony Saunois is a member of the Committee for a Workers’ International. 1 January 2019 marked the 60th anniversary of the victory of the Cuban Revolution. Tony Saunois looks at the Cuban Revolution and the life of its main leader, Fidel Castro. The article also discusses what is the way forward to defend the gains of […]
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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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Per-Åke Westerlund is a member of Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (CWI in Sweden). After two and a half years of the First World War, Russia exploded in February 1917 in a revolution that overthrew the Tsar’s dictatorship. The capitalist provisional governments that took over did not at all fulfill the expectations of the masses of an end […]
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Kelly Bellin is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. A new women’s movement is emerging in the US and internationally in the context of major threats to women’s hard won gains from vicious reactionary forces. Donald Trump’s election victory drove millions to the streets, and has further radicalized a section of society on […]
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Robert Bechert is a member of the Committee for a Workers’ International. November 9 is a momentous date in German history, as it is the date when the Kaiser was overthrown and a republic declared. Internationally, this date is sometimes overshadowed by the signing, on November 11, 1918, of the Armistice ending formally the central […]
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Iain Dalton is a member of the Socialist Party (CWI in England & Wales). The rise of fascism in Italy in the early 1920s represented a new, extremely dangerous threat to the workers’ movement. It provoked urgent debate in the early years of the Communist International – before its policy of workers’ unity to defeat […]
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