Spain: Over 1 million students on strike against sexism and for inclusive sex education

1.5 million students join strike and 100,000 take to the streets! The general student strike called by the Sindicato de Estudiantes (SE – students union) and Libres y Combativas (free and combative, socialist feminist platform of SE and Izquierda Revolucionaria – CWI in the Spanish state) has been a powerful success. More than 1.5 million […]

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Europe – special features of economic and political volatility

Matt Dobson is a member of the Socialist Party Scotland (CWI in Scotland). Judy Beishon from the CWI International Secretariat introduced the session of the CWI School on European perspectives. She commented that there are no stable governments or regimes on the continent. This is despite the recent small economic growth towards the end of […]

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10 years after 2007/8 crisis, capitalism has solved nothing

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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Spain: Student general strike against sexist capitalist

Empty classrooms and over 100,000 on the streets in strike called by the Sindicato de Estudiantes (SE) and Libres y Combativas, the socialist feminist platform of SE and Izquierda Revolucionaria (CWI in Spanish state) The general student strike on 10 May, called against the shameful sentencing of the ‘wolfpack’ rapists has been a great success. […]

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Socialist Alternative Magazine #9

Build Homes We Need Housing Crisis Stopping Kinder Morgan Pipeline France 1968 Ontario’s Election Women Fight Back … and more from Canada and the world If you would like to order copy(ies) contact: [email protected]

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Catalonia in revolt

Danny Byrne is a member of the Committee for a Workers’ International. A Spanish capitalist crisis In last year’s uprising in Catalonia, bitterness at national oppression merged with anti-austerity anger – above all, for hundreds of thousands of workers and young people. The Spanish state’s brutal response only poured fuel on the flames. Reviewing a […]

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Spain: Millions on the streets against sexism and capitalist oppression

Historic feminist strike, now continue the struggle! The feminist strike on 8 March was unprecedented. Never in the history of the class struggle in the Spanish state have such a deep and massive mobilisation against the oppression of working class women, against inequality and violence against women. Hundreds of marches took place from morning to […]

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Socialist Alternative Magazine #8

Housing Emergency Housing Emergency – Action Needed Stop Kinder Morgan Pipeline Fight for 15 Women Fight Back Indigenous Stolen Children Jean Swanson Campaign A Day in the Life of a BC Teacher Canada Today The Fentanyl Crisis … more from Canada and the world If you would like to order copy(ies) contact: [email protected]

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Catalan elections: Historic defeat for Spanish nationalist reaction

Movement mobilises once more for the Catalan Republic The Catalan elections on 21 December were a massive defeat for the Spanish nationalist “block of article 155” and an even bigger blow to this block’s main force, the People’s Party (PP) party. The capitalist media try to minimise the magnitude of this defeat by talking about […]

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Catalonia: Over one million march to free political prisoners

  Struggle until victory, for a workers’ Republic of Catalonia On Saturday 11 November, a massive mobilisation or over 1 million people lined over 3.3 kilometres of Marina avenue in Barcelona, demanding the freedom of political prisoners. This show of strength is a qualitative change in the struggle against repression and the PP government. The […]

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