Daniel Waldron and Ciaran Mulholland are members of the Socialist Party (CWI in Ireland). “For me, this is not a personal victory but a political one – it is a victory for cross-community, socialist politics. It reflects a growing opposition to the sectarian games, cuts and backward social policies of the main parties.” These were […]
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Ty Moore is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. In the four years since city and county officials declared a “State of Emergency” on homelessness, the situation has gone from bad to worse. Unfortunately, the dangerous, right-populist ideas animating “Seattle is Dying” are likely to gain growing support in the absence of any […]
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Kailyn Nicholson is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. The 2016 Democratic presidential primaries engaged a broad layer of young and left voters – many for the first time – thanks to the heated contest between former U.S. Senator and Walmart board member, Hillary Clinton, and self-proclaimed democratic socialist Bernie Sanders. The sharp […]
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Robin Clapp is a member of the Socialist Party (CWI in England & Wales). Still the world’s third largest economy in total GDP terms, Japan is stagnating – hit by prolonged economic stagnation, political inertia and rising social alienation. Peak Japan: the end of great ambitions, Brad Glosserman, 2019reviews a comprehensive guide to Japan’s rise […]
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Brexit totally absorbs British politics, with chaos in the House of Commons, and both Labour and Tory parties deeply divided, probably irreparably. Britain joined the European Economic Community (forerunner to European Union (EU)) in 1972. There was a left-wing and right-wing opposition to the EU. Those on the right, mainly older and better-off, dream of […]
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Dikang is a member of Socialist Action (CWI in Hong Kong). 130,000 march on April 28 – now we need a one-day political strike! The mass turnout of 130,000 people on Sunday April 28 against the government’s repressive agenda has turned Hong Kong’s political situation around. This was the biggest demonstration since the 2014 Umbrella […]
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Sirithunga Jayasuriya is a member of United Socialist Party. After the bombings – claimed by reactionary Islamic forces – Muslim workers and poor people right across Sri Lanka have felt under attack from all sides. Government and religious bigots have whipped up a scare campaign against them, with the wearing of scarves or burkhas forbidden. […]
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Wang Linyu is a contributor to chinaworker.info. 100th anniversary of May Fourth Movement – The Chinese dictatorship has many reasons to fear that once again China could be on the threshold of mass protests by radicalised youth and students, which could ignite a bigger movement among the working class. On May 4, 1919, 3,000 college […]
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Tony Saunois is a member of the Committee for a Workers’ International. Spanish general election anticipates new upheavals and need for revolutionary socialist alternative The general election which took place on 28 April in the Spanish state, like elections throughout Europe, at this time, was marked by a deep polarization. The election came on the […]
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