Tony Saunois is a member of the Committee for a Workers’ International. After a long battle with cancer, Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez died on 5 March 2013. TONY SAUNOIS assesses the role of Chávez and the situation following his death. Most capitalist journals and commentators could barely contain their glee at the death of Venezuela’s […]
Continue ReadingPhilip Locker is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. “This is just the beginning!” Kshama Sawant promised supporters and voters on behalf of Socialist Alternative at an excited election night party on November 6 in Seattle, WA. While the presidential race was mainly about what to vote against (see article Right Wing Rejected […]
Continue ReadingJess Spear is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. This past September saw the lowest amount of Arctic summer sea ice recorded in 33 years of measurement. Climate change experts warn that the Arctic could be ice-free as early as 2020, 30 years earlier than the last estimate published in 2007. A complete […]
Continue ReadingParis Makrides is a member of Xekinima (CWI in Greece). Yesterday was the first day of another 48 hours general strike. How big was the strike and protests of the Greek workers and youth? The strike paralysed Greece completely. Athens was like a deserted city as nothing moved except the demonstration of the striking workers. […]
Continue ReadingThe disaster caused by the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig was a human disaster but not of the workforce’s making. It is due to decisions of the oil companies and the government. A year previously, BP, the oil company leasing the rig, did an environmental study of the operation. This study claimed there […]
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Pete Mason is a member of the Socialist Party (CWI in England & Wales). As the Copenhagen summit approached last December, Scientific American ran a striking cover story, A Plan for a Sustainable Future. This showed how wind, water and solar power could supply the entire world’s energy needs by 2030. (November 2009) Renewable energy […]
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