The EU referendum has brought into the open stark divisions within the Tory party, raising the real prospect of a split. This crisis of capitalist political representation is being played out as the fate of the Corbyn insurgency within the Labour Party is still unresolved. In extracts from a statement discussed at the Socialist Party’s […]
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Fight for $15! Reconciliation Needs Housing and Healing TPP: Destroys Jobs and the Environment Housing Crisis in Vancouver and Toronto Pharmacare: The Right Prescription Work Sucks: We Need the Economy that Works for Workers Postal Workers Show the Way Upheaval in US Politics Québec Workers Mobilize: Union Leaders Demobilize 100 Years of Women’s Vote, but […]
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Emma Quinn is a member of the Socialist Party (CWI in Ireland). Originally posted on Socialist Party, Ireland (CWI) website March, 2016 Young people internationally are being politicised by the oppression of women and LGBT people, opening up debates as to how this discrimination and inequality can be ended. EMMA QUINN looks at the experience […]
Continue ReadingTony Saunois is a member of the Committee for a Workers’ International. Bernie Sanders campaign – an opportunity to build a new party of the 99% The US Presidential election campaign represents a turning point in US society and the struggles of the working class, the middle class, young people and all those exploited by […]
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Niall Mulholland is a member of the Committee for a Workers’ International. Sixty years ago Nikita Khrushchev stunned Communist Party members around the world with a speech attacking Stalin, the then recently deceased dictator deified as the Soviet Union’s ‘great leader’. It sparked revolt against the rotten regimes in Russia and eastern Europe. Ultimately, it […]
Continue ReadingGeorge Martin Fell Brown is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. The ecologist Richard Levins, who passed away in January, was a revolutionary in more ways than one. He made numerous scientific contributions in population genetics, biomathematics, and community ecology, and he served as the head of the human ecology program at the […]
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It’s 6 years since Michael Moore’s last film, Capitalism, a Love Story. He’s back on top form, perhaps a little less strident (a good thing), and still showing his trademark qualities of righteous but witty indignation combined with a populist style and message. From the title, you might think this latest documentary is a critique […]
Continue ReadingCillian Gillespie and Ruth Coppinger (Member of Isrish Parliament) are members of the Socialist Party (CWI in Ireland). Political crisis looms Here we publish an article posted originally on the Socialist Party (CWI in Ireland) website, following our party’s successful campaign which saw 3 CWI members – Paul Murphy, Ruth Coppinger and Mick Barry – […]
Continue ReadingClare Doyle is a member of the Committee for a Workers’ International. Working women’s fight for a world without oppression originally published on socialistworld.net Every year on March 8th we celebrate world-wide the contribution made by working women and famous female pioneers to the struggle for a new society. The date was established at an […]
Continue ReadingSerge Jordan is a member of the Committee for a Workers’ International. The ‘Arab Spring’ revolutionary wave brought dictators in Tunisia and Egypt crashing down. It swept through the Middle East, inspiring workers and youth the world over. It has since ebbed, however, leaving the region wracked with war and sectarian conflict. Five years ago, […]
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