Matt Dobson is a member of the Socialist Party Scotland (CWI in Scotland). Judy Beishon from the CWI International Secretariat introduced the session of the CWI School on European perspectives. She commented that there are no stable governments or regimes on the continent. This is despite the recent small economic growth towards the end of […]
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Robert Bechert is a member of the Committee for a Workers’ International. G7 failure, penalty tariffs reflect capitalist world disorder Trump’s claims of success after his Singapore meeting with Kim Jong-un were in complete contrast to the downbeat mood amongst most of the other leaders who had been with him at the preceding G7 summit […]
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Giuliano Brunetti is a member of Resistenze Internazionali (CWI in Italy). Three months after the general election of 4 March, Italy has a government again. On June 1, the yellow-green government, was officially given birth to by the lawyer Giuseppe Conte and the two vice-premiers – the political head of the Five Star Movement (M5S) […]
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Statement by Socialist Party (Ireland MPs) Ruth Coppinger, Paul Murphy and Mick Barry. Ireland voted by 66.4% to repeal the 8th Amendment, which had banned abortion in Ireland. This is a huge victory for a grass roots moment, in which the Socialist Party (CWI in Ireland) had a proud role. The dramatic and clear-cut ‘Yes’ […]
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Empty classrooms and over 100,000 on the streets in strike called by the Sindicato de Estudiantes (SE) and Libres y Combativas, the socialist feminist platform of SE and Izquierda Revolucionaria (CWI in Spanish state) The general student strike on 10 May, called against the shameful sentencing of the ‘wolfpack’ rapists has been a great success. […]
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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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Leïla Messaoudi is a member of Gauche Révolutionnaire (CWI in France). A second labour law to facilitate redundancies and short term contracts, an end to railway workers’ protected status and the national public railway enterprise, selection for university entrance, huge cuts in several public services, social benefits cuts, a new tax on pensioners. It’s a […]
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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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