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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Serge Jordan is a member of the Committee for a Workers’ International. Sudan has been rocked by extensive anti-government protests since December 19, unprecedented in their geographic scope and duration. People in the diaspora have come out in large numbers worldwide in front of Sudanese embassies to showcase their solidarity with the heroic struggle of […]
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Vanessa Wirth, from Berkeley Tower, was interviewed by Simon Schweitzer of Socialist Alternative Vancouver Berkeley Tower, overlooking English Bay in Vancouver, when it opened in 1959 was one of West End’s first high-rise apartments. Vanessa has lived in Berkeley Tower for five years and is active in the campaign to resist renoviction from the new […]
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Christopher Carroll is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. A caravan of thousands of migrants has amassed in Tijuana at the US-Mexico border near San Diego. Migrants seeking asylum from violence in their native countries of Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador, they traveled for weeks just to reach the border. Upon arriving, they […]
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Peter Taaffe is a member of the Socialist Party (CWI in England & Wales). On 15 January 1919, Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht, the finest brains of the German working class and its most heroic figures, were brutally murdered by the bloodthirsty, defeated German military, backed to the hilt by the cowardly social-democratic leaders. The […]
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Nick Jones is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. After two months of intensive fightback from working people and renters, the Seattle City Council voted 8-1 on November 19 to adopt a business-as-usual budget that completely fails to offer a solution to the affordable housing crisis that affects tens of thousands of working […]
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More people are concerned and anxious: the future of our planet is on the line. The recent International Panel on Climate Change report states there us are only 12 years to avoid irreversible environmental disaster. Despite the warning signs, the political establishment does not seem to grasp the seriousness of the situation. Many workers and […]
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Clare Doyle is a member of the Committee for a Workers’ International. After three weeks of increasingly angry mass protests, French President Emmanuel Macron suspended the massively contested tax on diesel. Yet, so far this concession has not defused the mass movement calling for his government to resign. On Monday, 3 December, when the French […]
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Pete Dickenson is a member of the Socialist Party (CWI in England & Wales). In October, cyclone Leslie devastated the Iberian peninsula, only the second time a tropical cyclone has hit Europe since 1842, the other being Vince in 2005. Climate scientists linked the severity of this storm to increased sea temperatures. Leslie coincided with […]
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