Hannah Sell is a member of the Socialist Party (CWI in England & Wales). Britain:After the referendum Tories Out! General election now! Fight for a 24 hour general strike “The referendum result may well go down in history as the pitchfork moment”, declared the Financial Times (FT), wailing the anger and despair of Britain’s elite […]
Continue ReadingEleni Mitsou is a member of Xekinima (CWI in Greece). Strike action wins major concessions from contractors and bus administration After two rounds of strikes by Athens bus cleaners, a 15-day and an 8 day-strike, and a series of protests (outside the offices of their boss, the contractor Link Ap, the bus company administration, OSY, […]
Continue ReadingClare Doyle is a member of the Committee for a Workers’ International. Fight against Valls/Hollande Government Intensifies Far from abating, the battle over France’s labour law reform has intensified. The Hollande-Valls government has said it will impose the changes. The main trade union federation has said it will fight to the end. Most of the […]
Continue ReadingJoão Félix is a member of Socialismo Revolucionário (CWI in Portugal). Militant strike action blocks bosses attempts to undermine collective bargaining The Lisbon Dockers strike, which started in 20th of April, ended up with a significant victory to the Dockers! The agreement reached included 23 casualised workers in the collective contract, negotiate a new pay […]
Continue ReadingSonja Grusch is a member of Sozialistische LinksPartei (CWI in Austria). ‘Breathing space’ offers chance to build a fighting, democratic left alternative Sonja Grusch, SLP (the Austrian section of the CWI) Since Saturday 23 April, a series of physical earthquakes have shaken Austria. But the most significant was the political earthquake resulting from the 24 […]
Continue ReadingThe EU referendum has brought into the open stark divisions within the Tory party, raising the real prospect of a split. This crisis of capitalist political representation is being played out as the fate of the Corbyn insurgency within the Labour Party is still unresolved. In extracts from a statement discussed at the Socialist Party’s […]
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Fight for $15! Reconciliation Needs Housing and Healing TPP: Destroys Jobs and the Environment Housing Crisis in Vancouver and Toronto Pharmacare: The Right Prescription Work Sucks: We Need the Economy that Works for Workers Postal Workers Show the Way Upheaval in US Politics Québec Workers Mobilize: Union Leaders Demobilize 100 Years of Women’s Vote, but […]
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Emma Quinn is a member of the Socialist Party (CWI in Ireland). Originally posted on Socialist Party, Ireland (CWI) website March, 2016 Young people internationally are being politicised by the oppression of women and LGBT people, opening up debates as to how this discrimination and inequality can be ended. EMMA QUINN looks at the experience […]
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Niall Mulholland is a member of the Committee for a Workers’ International. Sixty years ago Nikita Khrushchev stunned Communist Party members around the world with a speech attacking Stalin, the then recently deceased dictator deified as the Soviet Union’s ‘great leader’. It sparked revolt against the rotten regimes in Russia and eastern Europe. Ultimately, it […]
Continue ReadingCillian Gillespie and Ruth Coppinger (Member of Isrish Parliament) are members of the Socialist Party (CWI in Ireland). Political crisis looms Here we publish an article posted originally on the Socialist Party (CWI in Ireland) website, following our party’s successful campaign which saw 3 CWI members – Paul Murphy, Ruth Coppinger and Mick Barry – […]
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