Kevin Parslow is a member of the Socialist Party (CWI in England & Wales). The CWI school 2018, attended by nearly 400 comrades from over thirty countries in Barcelona, opened with a lively and confident discussion on the turmoil and upheavals facing global capitalism and prospects for the class struggle and socialism. This session was […]
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Shahar Ben Horin is a member of Socialist Struggle Movement (ISA in Israel-Palestine). This was one of the most important demonstrations organized in Israel in recent years. The fact that all six parties in the Netanyahu coalition government all oppose full equality to LGBT people has not prevented the right-wing regime from making cynical propaganda […]
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Leon Pinsky, Patrick Ayers, and Tom Crean are members of Socialist Alternative in the US. In what can only be described as a political earthquake, left-wing insurgent Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez defeated incumbent and Queens Democratic Party boss Joe Crowley by 15 percent in the primary for New York’s 14th Congressional District. Ocasio-Cortez is a member of […]
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Robert Bechert is a member of the Committee for a Workers’ International. G7 failure, penalty tariffs reflect capitalist world disorder Trump’s claims of success after his Singapore meeting with Kim Jong-un were in complete contrast to the downbeat mood amongst most of the other leaders who had been with him at the preceding G7 summit […]
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Kshama Sawant’s Speech On June 12, at short notice, the corporate politicians on the Seattle City Council voted to repeal the Amazon Tax on big business that would fund affordable housing. Here is a speech by Councilmember Kshama Sawant, a member of Socialist Alternative
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Neither the capitalists nor bureaucracy can solve the crisis! Build a revolutionary Left which defends the interests of the workers and poor! On 20 May there were Presidential elections in Venezuela. According to final results, Maduro won with 6.2 million votes, ahead of Henri Falcon (a general and ex state governor of Lara who went […]
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Voting Is Not Enough, Build from Below for Real Change This article is based on reports from Izquierda Revolucionaria (Revolutionary Left) part of the Committee for a Workers International. 2018 is shaping up to be a transformative year for Mexico. The July elections are taking place against a background of economic stagnation, mounting poverty, inequality and violence. There is mounting wave […]
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Giuliano Brunetti is a member of Resistenze Internazionali (CWI in Italy). Three months after the general election of 4 March, Italy has a government again. On June 1, the yellow-green government, was officially given birth to by the lawyer Giuseppe Conte and the two vice-premiers – the political head of the Five Star Movement (M5S) […]
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Vancouver’s political revolution is rolling forward. Jean Swanson is running again for City Council! This follows from the political earthquake she caused in last November’s city by-election. On June 9, at a rally at The Crescent in Shaughnessy, a Vancouver neighbourhood so tony it should be called Anthony, Jean Swanson announced she is a candidate […]
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Tony Saunois is a member of the Committee for a Workers’ International. Brazil has entered a time of political, social and economic convulsions. The brutal assassination of Marielle Franco, a PSOL (Partido Socialismo e Liberdade) councillor in Rio de Janeiro, reflected this convulsive era and the extreme polarisation which has opened up in Brazilian society. […]
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