Tom Crean is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. President Trump’s has been forced to retreat from his demand that the Democrats agree to fund a border wall as the price for reopening the government.But while the Democrats refused, under pressure from their base, to cave to this demand, they were in no […]
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The new leader of the Venezuelan right and far right, Juan Guaidó, (recently elected president of the counterrevolutionary national Assembly) has proclaimed himself President. He called on his supporters to take to the streets to force through the down fall of Nicolás Maduro’s government. Immediately, the most reactionary governments in Latin America and the world, […]
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Jagadish G. Chandra is a member of New Socialist Alternative (CWI in India). Undoubtedly India’s recent 48 hour General Strike in January 2019, when nearly 220 million workers, peasants, agricultural labourers, street vendors etc. struck work will go down in history as a record-breaking one. Interestingly the previous record for largest general strike was also […]
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On Thursday, a reported 750,000 public sector workers went on a nationwide strike in Tunisia, called by the UGTT (General Union of Tunisian Workers, the main trade union organisation) against the pay freeze and other austerity policies imposed by the IMF, in collaboration with the current government of Youssef Chahed. Public services were largely paralysed, […]
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Leïla Messaoudi is a member of Gauche Révolutionnaire (CWI in France). The “yellow vest” movement in France has involved hundreds of thousands of people in demonstrations, blockades of roundabouts, main roads and toll booths all around the country, in big cities and in the countryside. Begun in mid-November, it has not even stopped during the […]
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Robert Bechert is a member of the Committee for a Workers’ International. In January 1919 Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht, two of the outstanding leaders of the German and international working class movements, were murdered. They are figures who still today symbolise uncompromising opposition to capitalism and imperialist war and who fought and died for […]
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Vincent Kolo is a contributor to chinaworker.info. Capitalism and imperialism were driven out, but political power rested in the hands of a Stalinist communist party It is an especially nervous Communist Party (CCP) regime that presides over the 60th anniversary celebrations of the founding of the People’s Republic of China on 1 October. The regime […]
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On January 8 and 9, 2019, India was shaken by a massive General Strike, with between 150 and 200 million taking part. This article, written before the strike outlines the views of New Socialist Alternative (CWI in India). India’s Working Class people have a tremendous history of showing their built-up anger and collective bargaining strength […]
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Ibukun Omole is a member of Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI in Nigeria). General elections are scheduled for Nigeria in February and March. February 16 is due to see the election of the president and National Assembly, while on March 2 governors and state assemblies in most of Nigeria’s 36 states, alongside local elections in the […]
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