African women wearing a face mask

COVID-19: Capitalism Driving Africa Into the Abyss

Serge Jordan is a member of International Socialist Alternative. Capitalism and Imperialism in the dock The COVID-19 pandemic has thrown into sharp relief the profound social inequalities prevailing under modern capitalism. Nowhere more than in Africa. The Global Health Security (GHS) Index is a measured assessment of 195 countries’ capacity and readiness to face outbreaks […]

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Map of world-wide distribution of COVID-19

Coronavirus and the Neo-Colonial World

Mike Forster is a member of Socialist Alternative (England, Wales & Scotland). Humanitarian Catastrophe Threatens Whilst the Coronavirus pandemic has shown it does not discriminate in the way it infects people, as the virus continues to spread rapidly across the world, it’s clear that the effects on those countries and peoples which are the least […]

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South Africa. Fight against xenophobia and scapegoating

Newton Masuku, Mametlwe Sebei, and Phemelo Motseokae are members of the Workers’ and Socialist Party (CWI in South Africa). The Workers and Socialist Party calls for ongoing action and intervention to fight against the reactionary xenophobic mobs, criminal violence and rampant looting targeted at foreign migrants.The political and corporate capitalist elite are responsible for all […]

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Zimbabwe’s Crisis Deepens: Mass protests and brutal repression

Leonard Chiwoniso Mhute and Sodindwa Malandelilanga are members of CWI Zimbabwe. On 16 August, the regime in Zimbabwe brutally attacked street demonstrations against the country’s seemingly endless economic and political crisis. The ruling elite fears a protest revolt such as in Sudan, having clearly seen the strength of the masses in action in the three […]

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North Africa and the revolutionary processes in Algeria and Sudan

This resolution was unanimously agreed at August meeting of CWI’s International Executive Committee. By bringing down two long-standing dictators within a week in April of this year, the revolutionary uprisings in Algeria and Sudan have confirmed the analysis made by the CWI eight years ago, while stunning most bourgeois scholars and commentators. At the time, […]

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Sudan: Counter-revolution rears its ugly head

Serge Jordan is a member of the Committee for a Workers’ International. On Monday June 3 before dawn, the military regime and its thugs brutally dispersed the sit-in which had been camping outside the military headquarters in Sudan’s capital Khartoum since April 6, and which had served as the focal point for the ongoing uprising […]

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