Although China and the US reached a temporary trade agreement in Washington on October 11, this does not mark a cessation of the conflict between the two imperialist powers which has raged for 16 months. The deal reached, which postpones proposed US tariff increases to 30%, in return for China making bigger purchases of some […]
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Claus Ludwig is a member of Sozialistische Alternative (ISA in Germany). A new stage of the war in Syria is now beginning after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has ordered Turkish troops to attack and occupy the Kurdish region of Rojava in northern Syria. The first wave of troops accompanied by widespread airstrikes has moved across […]
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Hugh Caffrey is a member of the Socialist Party (CWI in England & Wales). Liverpool lost one of its greatest ever working-class leaders, and a great family man, when Tony Mulhearn passed away at the age of 80 on 7 October. Tony was in many ways born a class fighter. The appalling poverty of the […]
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For nine weeks, workers at the Harland & Wolff shipyard in Belfast, where the Titanic was once built occupied the site after the company went into administration, placing skilled jobs at risk. The workers at the shipyard – members of Unite and GMB trade unions – demanded that the government nationalise the yard to safeguard […]
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Martin LeBrun is a member of Socialist Alternative Canada. Robert Bielecki is a member of Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (CWI in Sweden) . One million mainly young people took to the streets across Canada on September 27, demanding that governments take urgent action to address climate change. There were marches and rallies in at least 85 Canadian […]
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This is the text of a leaflet issued by Socialist Action (ISA in Hong Kong). Demonstrations should not require police approval – Export the Hong Kong revolution to China! After almost four months of this historic mass struggle, Hong Kong has become a city under police rule. The CCP (so-called ‘Communist’) dictatorship fears that the […]
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Newton Masuku, Mametlwe Sebei, and Phemelo Motseokae are members of the Workers’ and Socialist Party (CWI in South Africa). The Workers and Socialist Party calls for ongoing action and intervention to fight against the reactionary xenophobic mobs, criminal violence and rampant looting targeted at foreign migrants.The political and corporate capitalist elite are responsible for all […]
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Serge Jordan is a member of the Committee for a Workers’ International. On the evening of Friday, September 20, widespread protests broke out in Egypt. Hundreds of people came down to Cairo’s Tahrir Square, the epicentre of the January 2011 revolution, and many more marched through the streets of other parts of the country, including […]
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Boris is a member of Linkse Socialistiche Partij / Parti Socialiste de Lutte (ISA in Belgium). Failure of the Mitterand government May 10, 1981. In Paris, 200,000 people gathered at the Bastille, shouting for joy. Scenes of jubilation burst out in all the cities across France. François Mitterrand had just won the second round of […]
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Connor Rosoman is a member of Socialist Alternative (England, Wales & Scotland). “12 years to save the planet”. Last year, the world received a wake-up call. Leading climate scientists working for the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) predicted that we have only 12 years before global temperatures will have risen by 1.5°C. Going […]
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