Judy Beishon is a member of the Socialist Party (CWI in England & Wales). Socialists Fight for Palestinian Liberation and Workers’ Unity The 70th anniversary of the 1948 foundation of the Israeli state is being marked this month in Israel. For Palestinian refugees, however, it marks only their ‘Nakba’, the Arabic word for catastrophe, when […]
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Peter Taaffe is a member of the Socialist Party (CWI in England & Wales). Marxist ideas more relevant than ever The 200th anniversary of the birth of the great Karl Marx is on 5 May. Marx, together with Friedrich Engels, formulated the ideas of scientific socialism which were to shake the world in the nineteenth […]
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Peter Taaffe is a member of the Socialist Party (CWI in England & Wales). Factory and university occupations in France. US civil rights and rage at the Vietnam war. Upheavals in Italy, Pakistan and Northern Ireland. Revolt in Stalinist Czechoslovakia. Repression in Mexico. Events in 1968 sent shockwaves around the world. Some years stand out […]
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Clare Doyle is a member of the Committee for a Workers’ International. In those days, there was a Cold War, but it was one between two very different social systems. The economies of the “West” were capitalist – based on private ownership and profit. In the “East” they were state-owned, bureaucratically-run, claiming to be “socialist” […]
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Build Homes We Need Housing Crisis Stopping Kinder Morgan Pipeline France 1968 Ontario’s Election Women Fight Back … and more from Canada and the world If you would like to order copy(ies) contact: [email protected]
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Ty Moore is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. Seattle’s socialist City Councilmember Kshama Sawant is facing two defamation lawsuits, the aim of which is to silence an outstanding representative of working people and the oppressed. The first is from two police officers who shot and killed a black man in 2016. The […]
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This article was first published in 2008, but is even more relevant today with a Trump presidency, Black Lives Matter and rising struggles across the US. This year marks the 40th anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., who was killed on April 4, 1968 while supporting striking Memphis sanitation workers. Unfortunately, […]
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Peter Taaffe is a member of the Socialist Party (CWI in England & Wales). Mikhail Gorbachev, the Soviet Union’s last leader, left a truly historical legacy. Aiming to reform bureaucratic rule he helped unleash forces that led to the complete collapse of Stalinism in Russia and eastern Europe. That then fed capitalist globalisation, opening up […]
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Fifty years ago, on April 30, 1975 at 7:53 in the morning, the Marine helicopter Swift 2-2 departed from the United States embassy in Saigon, capital of South Vietnam. The helicopter carried the last batch of soldiers who had been waging a brutal, protracted war against the revolutionary peasant uprising of Hồ Chí Minh’s Việt Cộng […]
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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 […]
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