Robert 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 […]
Continue ReadingDanny Byrne is a member of the Committee for a Workers’ International. No to a government of “national unity”! For mass action to deal final blow to rotten coalition and impose a workers’ alternative! In the last two weeks, Portugal has been plunged into possibly the deepest and most desperate episode of political crisis since […]
Continue ReadingKai Stein is a member of the Committee for a Workers’ International. New layer of workers, youth and poor has entered the scene with the promise: “This is just the beginning – the struggle continues” “Warlike violence” – that’s how ‘Taksim Solidarity’ the committee coordinating 127 groups in protest against Turkey’s prime minister Erdogan described […]
Continue ReadingPeter Taaffe is a member of the Socialist Party (CWI in England & Wales). Urgent need for independent working class socialist organizations The capturing of the strategically important city of Qusair by pro-government forces, including Hezbollah and Iraqi Shias, marks a new stage in the bloody quagmire of Syria and is likely to have wide […]
Continue ReadingJudy Beishon is a member of the Socialist Party (CWI in England & Wales). ‘Boycott, divestment and sanctions’- questions and answers about the BDS campaign Following an appeal from advocates of an academic boycott on Israel, physicist Stephen Hawking recently turned down an invitation to speak at a conference in Jerusalem. He joins others who […]
Continue ReadingJudy Beishon is a member of the Socialist Party (CWI in England & Wales). ‘Boycott, divestment and sanctions’- questions and answers about the BDS campaign Following an appeal from advocates of an academic boycott on Israel, physicist Stephen Hawking recently turned down an invitation to speak at a conference in Jerusalem. He joins others who […]
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Per Olsson is a member of Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (CWI in Sweden). Sweden once had a reputation as some kind of ‘social-democratic model’ with far-reaching public services and social support. But that has been dismantled by two decades of attacks – what the Economist magazine calls a ‘silent revolution’ Sweden has weathered the crisis and the […]
Continue ReadingAlistair Tice is a member of the Socialist Party (CWI in England & Wales). Millions have been waiting for this day, 8 April 2013. Margaret Thatcher will never be forgiven for the devastation that her Tory governments’ policies wrought on working class communities in the 1980s – and is still being felt today. “I would […]
Continue ReadingJess Spear is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. This is the text of a flier Socialist Alternative handed out at a public hearing in Seattle. A consortium of corporations want to build the Gateway Pacific Terminal – North America’s largest coal export terminal north of Seattle in Bellingham, WA. These corporations seek […]
Continue ReadingThe Marikana massacre, where police armed with automatic weapons opened fire and killed 34 striking miners, was a watershed in post-Apartheid South Africa. Echoing this, one headline covering the launch read “born in post-Marikana anger, Workers & Socialist Party enters SA politics”. The most significant feature of the 2012 mineworkers’ strikes was the organisation of […]
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