Vladimir Putin and the “Death of Liberalism”

Rob Jones is a member of Sotsialisticheskaya Alternativa (ISA in Russia). Twenty years since he was first appointed Premier by the outgoing Boris Yeltsin, Vladimir Putin in a provocative interview in the Financial Times recently declared that “Liberalism is dead”. His manifesto challenged the liberal capitalist elite currently dominating the European Union and rallied right-wing […]

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Women in struggle around the world

Anne Engelhardt is a member of Sozialistische Alternative (ISA in Germany). At the IEC meeting from 12 to 16 August, comrades from 25 different countries examined the origins and impact of the women’s movements around the world, and its connection to changes in the working class and its movement, in a lively session on socialist […]

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Zimbabwe’s Crisis Deepens: Mass protests and brutal repression

Leonard Chiwoniso Mhute and Sodindwa Malandelilanga are members of CWI Zimbabwe. On 16 August, the regime in Zimbabwe brutally attacked street demonstrations against the country’s seemingly endless economic and political crisis. The ruling elite fears a protest revolt such as in Sudan, having clearly seen the strength of the masses in action in the three […]

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Why is the Amazon burning?

Electra Kleitsa is a member of Xekinima (CWI in Greece). It is estimated that since the beginning of 2019, when Jair Bolsonaro took over the presidency of Brazil, the Amazon lost an area of rainforest equal to one football field every minute. The countless fires that have broken out in recent weeks are destroying extremely […]

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North Africa and the revolutionary processes in Algeria and Sudan

This resolution was unanimously agreed at August meeting of CWI’s International Executive Committee. By bringing down two long-standing dictators within a week in April of this year, the revolutionary uprisings in Algeria and Sudan have confirmed the analysis made by the CWI eight years ago, while stunning most bourgeois scholars and commentators. At the time, […]

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