Neoliberalism’s purpose is to shift the balance of money and power away from the working class and to the rich and their corporations. One of the strategies to achieve that goal is the weakening of the bargaining power and the working conditions of working people. Alongside the rise of automation, outsourcing, downsizing, and clawbacks of […]
Continue ReadingAysha Zaki is a member of the Committee for a Workers’ International. The revolution must continue! For a government of workers and the poor! During the last week of tumultous events in Egypt, Aysha Zaki has discussed with socialist opposition activists in Cairo about the mass movement to the rule of the Muslim Brotherhood, the […]
Continue ReadingRobert Bechert is a member of the Committee for a Workers’ International. The stormy and bloody developments since the removal and arrest of President Morsi by the military mark a new, challenging and dangerous stage in the unfolding Egyptian revolution. Despite the huge, unprecedented mass mobilization against Morsi the absence of an independent, socialist based […]
Continue ReadingDanny Byrne is a member of the Committee for a Workers’ International. No to a government of “national unity”! For mass action to deal final blow to rotten coalition and impose a workers’ alternative! In the last two weeks, Portugal has been plunged into possibly the deepest and most desperate episode of political crisis since […]
Continue ReadingKai Stein is a member of the Committee for a Workers’ International. New layer of workers, youth and poor has entered the scene with the promise: “This is just the beginning – the struggle continues” “Warlike violence” – that’s how ‘Taksim Solidarity’ the committee coordinating 127 groups in protest against Turkey’s prime minister Erdogan described […]
Continue ReadingPeter Taaffe is a member of the Socialist Party (CWI in England & Wales). Urgent need for independent working class socialist organizations The capturing of the strategically important city of Qusair by pro-government forces, including Hezbollah and Iraqi Shias, marks a new stage in the bloody quagmire of Syria and is likely to have wide […]
Continue ReadingJudy Beishon is a member of the Socialist Party (CWI in England & Wales). ‘Boycott, divestment and sanctions’- questions and answers about the BDS campaign Following an appeal from advocates of an academic boycott on Israel, physicist Stephen Hawking recently turned down an invitation to speak at a conference in Jerusalem. He joins others who […]
Continue ReadingJudy Beishon is a member of the Socialist Party (CWI in England & Wales). ‘Boycott, divestment and sanctions’- questions and answers about the BDS campaign Following an appeal from advocates of an academic boycott on Israel, physicist Stephen Hawking recently turned down an invitation to speak at a conference in Jerusalem. He joins others who […]
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Per Olsson is a member of Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (CWI in Sweden). Sweden once had a reputation as some kind of ‘social-democratic model’ with far-reaching public services and social support. But that has been dismantled by two decades of attacks – what the Economist magazine calls a ‘silent revolution’ Sweden has weathered the crisis and the […]
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Written by Socialist Alternative members in BC. On May 14 the New Democratic Party (NDP) achieved a stunning defeat in British Columbia’s provincial election, losing to the BC Liberals for the fourth time. It wasn’t supposed to be like this. Just over a year ago the Liberals were in free fall after choosing a new […]
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