Tony Saunois is a member of the Committee for a Workers’ International. In re-building a socialist movement, lessons of coup need to be learnt The terrorist attack on the Twin Towers in New York in 2001 was not the first ’9/11’. In Chile, on 11 September 1973, a bloody coup, led by General Augusto Pinochet […]
Continue ReadingPasha is a member of Socialist Action (CWI in Hong Kong). New leaders facing economic and political crisis China has entered a period of crisis. Even its leaders recognize this. The new president, Xi Jinping, admitted that the current crisis could threaten the CCP-state (Chinese Communist Party) with extinction within 10 years. A senior economist […]
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Eljeer Hawkins is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. Martin Luther King moved from a position for a gradual reform of capitalism towards an understanding that more radical ideas were needed. The 50th anniversary of the historic March on Washington for jobs and freedom falls on 28 August 2013. It was on this […]
Continue ReadingLiv Shange is a member of Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI in South Africa). Both capitalists and working class prepare for unforeseen turmoil On August 16, 2012, at Marikana, a bloody line was drawn in South Africa’s political sand when police in cold blood shot dead 34 workers and wounded 78. The few seconds of the […]
Continue ReadingCalvin Priest is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. 35%, over 44,000 votes – Kshama Sawant’s stunning result in Seattle primary Final numbers: Kshama Sawant: 35.06% (44,458 votes) Brian Carver: 16.64% (21,107 votes) Richard Conlin: 47.74% (60,537 votes) Write-in: 0.56% (712 votes) In the August primary election for Seattle City Council, Socialist Alternative […]
Continue ReadingRobert Bechert is a member of the Committee for a Workers’ International. Increasing sectarianism threatens revolution’s future – Workers’ independent action urgently needed Millions across the world, and especially in the Middle East, have been shocked by the killing of hundreds of mainly unarmed people in the Egyptian military’s brutal clearance of the two pro-Morsi […]
Continue ReadingSerge Jordan is a member of the Committee for a Workers’ International. Two and a half years after the fall of Ben Ali, the situation has gone from bad to worse for the Tunisian population, and anger is brewing as never before across the whole country. The famous slogan of the revolution – “bread, freedom, […]
Continue ReadingAndré Ferrari is a member of Liberdade, Socialismo e Revolução (CWI in Brazil). Organized working class enters stage of struggle After gathering more than two million people in demonstrations in 500 cities during the month of June, Brazil is experiencing a new phase of mobilization. The national day struggles on July 11 represented the first […]
Continue ReadingAysha Zaki is a member of the Committee for a Workers’ International. The revolution must continue! For a government of workers and the poor! During the last week of tumultous events in Egypt, Aysha Zaki has discussed with socialist opposition activists in Cairo about the mass movement to the rule of the Muslim Brotherhood, the […]
Continue ReadingRobert Bechert is a member of the Committee for a Workers’ International. The stormy and bloody developments since the removal and arrest of President Morsi by the military mark a new, challenging and dangerous stage in the unfolding Egyptian revolution. Despite the huge, unprecedented mass mobilization against Morsi the absence of an independent, socialist based […]
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