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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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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This resolution was unanimously agreed at August meeting of CWI’s International Executive Committee. We are rapidly approaching a decisive turning point in world relations with a slowdown in the world economy increasingly pointing towards a deeper downturn, including the possibility of a 2008-9 type financial crash. Such a development would find capitalism far less prepared […]
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Peter Hadden is a member of the Socialist Party (CWI in Ireland). August 1969 was a turning point in the history of Northern Ireland. It was then that the Labour Government of Harold Wilson took the decision to send troops onto the streets, first of Derry, then of Belfast. The measure was presented as temporary […]
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Geert Cool is a member of Linkse Socialistiche Partij / Parti Socialiste de Lutte (CWI in Belgium). Seventy two years after the agreement between the Maharajah (King) of Kashmir and the Indian Government on accession of Kashmir in the areas of foreign affairs, telecommunications and defence, India is unilaterally terminating the autonomous status of Jammu […]
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A minority of the CWI has bureaucratically forced through an unfortunate and damaging split in the worlds largest and most influential revolutionary socialist organization, the Committee for a Workers’ International. Those who follow the CWI, in its publications and activities, will be aware of the important debates that have taken place in our revolutionary socialist […]
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Per-Åke Westerlund is a member of Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (CWI in Sweden). Leon Trotsky’s In Defence of Marxism is a book every Marxist needs to study. It’s a collection of letters and key documents from a sharp debate within the Socialist Workers Party in the US in 1939-40. It’s a very rich book, on application of […]
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Arne Johansson is a member of Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (CWI in Sweden). Too many socialists, even among those who like to see themselves as revolutionary Marxists, have been sadly late in discovering and understanding the ecological analysis of capitalism’s irreparable metabolic rift with the planet and nature that Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels began working on […]
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André Ferrari is a member of Liberdade, Socialismo e Revolução (CWI in Brazil). Jair Bolsonaro’s Brazil is a country that is going backwards in all respects. Seven months after his inauguration, what we see is poverty, unemployment, the withdrawal of social rights, attacks on democratic freedoms, authoritarianism, submission to imperialism and a permanent offensive against […]
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George Martin Fell Brown is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. Marxists are primarily known for their concern with the development of human society and political struggle. As materialists, however, Marxists necessarily look to developments in science and new ways of understanding the material world. The Marxist interest in science entails both a […]
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