Andros Payiatsos is a member of Xekinima (CWI in Greece). Mass intervention of working class to struggle for socialist policies is vital Last time we spoke you told us of the campaign of fear by the establishment to try and prevent people voting for Syriza. How has this developed? The circus of the ruling class […]
Continue ReadingUnity against racism and capitalism! Nearly four million people marched in the streets of France this weekend to express their disgust and their grief against the attacks in Paris which killed seventeen people last week. This is an unprecedented mobilization on this kind of issue. It is clear that a large majority wanted to be […]
Continue ReadingInterview with Andros Payiatsos, Xekinima (CWI in Greece). At the end of last year a constitutional crisis arose in austerity-ridden Greece with the failure to elect a president. This triggered an early general election to be called for 25 January. Much to the panic of the capitalist class internationally, Syriza (the left party) leads the […]
Continue ReadingKevin Parslow is a member of the Socialist Party (CWI in England & Wales). Committee for a Workers’ International meeting discusses a volatile period in global and class relations The recent meeting of the International Executive Committee (IEC) of the Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI) came at the end of a turbulent year in […]
Continue ReadingChris Thomas is a member of ControCorrente (CWI in Italy). New political voice vitally needed Seventy per cent of all workers in Italy stopped work during the national general strike on 12 December called by the CGIL and UIL union federations. Thousands marched in more than 50 cities all across the country. This was a […]
Continue ReadingTowards a second plan of action to get rid of this government and austerity! The general strike of 15 December in Belgium was phenomenal. The united call of all three trade union centres illustrated the power of the working class movement. We made the government wobble, but it will need an extra push to fall. […]
Continue ReadingRob Jones is a member of Sotsialisticheskaya Alternativa (CWI in Russia). Working people need socialist alternative to warring oligarchs and outside powers It is just over one year since protestors gathered in Kiev’s Maidan Nezalezhnosti in protest at the Mykola Azarov government’s decision not to sign an ‘Association agreement’ between Ukraine and the EU. Since […]
Continue ReadingEddie McCabe is a member of the Socialist Party (CWI in Ireland). Paul Murphy wins parliamentary seat as 100,000 march against water charges 12 October 2014 will be a day that’s remembered for years to come in Ireland. An estimated 100,000 marched in Dublin against the hated water charges. And on the same day, Paul […]
Continue ReadingPeter Taaffe is a member of the Socialist Party (CWI in England & Wales). The referendum has turned British politics upside down – even though the No vote won The referendum has turned British politics upside down – even though the No vote won. The Yes campaign became a mass mobilization of working-class communities: against […]
Continue ReadingRobert Bechert is a member of the Committee for a Workers’ International. In country after country, May’s elections to the European parliament saw governments and traditional parties defeated Elections to the European parliament saw voters revolt against government and traditional parties. While there were some gains for the left, media headlines were dominated by victories […]
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