Category: International

South Africa wins the World Cup … of inequality Let them eat cake – the ugly backdrop to the beautiful game by Sheri Hamilton, Weizmann Hamilton and Liv Shange From the website of the Democratic Socialist Movement (the CWI in South Africa): http://www.socialistsouthafrica.co.za Nothing symbolises more graphically the ugliness that forms the backdrop to the beautiful game than all the

2010 CWI May Day Statement The fightback has just begun! For fighting unions and mass workers’ parties! For international solidarity and socialism! No to war and occupation! Support the Greek general strike against capitalism’s austerity! For a European-wide day of action on 5 May! Committee for a Workers’ International This is a”situation of war” – said Greek Prime Minister, Papandreou,

Ireland – Murder of 15 year old Toyosi Shitta-bey Communities must unite against racism Joe Higgins, Socialist Party (CWI in Ireland) MEP Below we publish an article written by Joe Higgins MEP, who along with other Socialist Party (CWI in Ireland) members, has been heavily involved in the organisation of a united community protest in response to the tragic murder

The Permanent Revolution today Introduction to new Urdu edition of ‘Permanent Revolution’ by Leon Trotsky Peter Taaffe New introduction by Peter Taaffe to Leon Trotsky’s ‘Permanent Revolution’, which the comrades of Socialist Movement Pakistan (CWI) are to translate into Urdu and publish. What relevance does Trotsky’s Theory of the Permanent Revolution have to the problems of the workers’ cause or

ABDULMUTALLAB: FOR A SOCIALIST ALTERNATIVE TO INDIVIDUAL TERRORISM AND CAPITALISM Peluola Adewale The failed attempt by Umar Farouk Abdul-Mutallab to blow up Delta Airline flight 253 from Amsterdam (Netherlands) to Detroit (US) on Christmas Day, December 25 2009 sent jitters around the world and triggered various measures to improve security at the airports and on flights. Huge amounts of tax

Haitians abandoned, bankers rewarded Earthquake disaster Fight for a socialist world Dave Carr, Socialist Party (CWI in England & Wales) While desperate survivors in Haiti’s destroyed capital of Port-au-Prince tried to find food, water and shelter, US secretary of state Hillary Clinton breezed into the main airport for a photo opportunity, diverting aid relief flights which included a field hospital

Bankers award themselves obscene ‘bonuses’ As the top bankers worldwide award themselves obscene ‘bonuses’ to feed their greed-fuelled, decadent lifestyles, the workers and poor people of Haiti suffer conditions of unimaginable horror. The billions of pounds, euros and dollars the banking fat cats are taking for themselves should be confiscated and used to meet the desperate needs of the injured,

Haiti Disaster compounded by capitalism Niall Mulholland, Committee for a Workers’ International The humanitarian catastrophe that has befallen Haiti beggars belief. The powerful earthquake that struck on 12 January left many thousands dead, with estimates running to 200,000 and more. The flimsy slum dwellings in Port-au-Prince, the capital, collapsed, as did public buildings, including schools and hospitals. Many thousands are

Copenhagen climate summit Protests met with police brutality Strong mood against capitalism – and its police force Almost 1,000 arrested, only three of them charged By Elin Gauffin, Karin Wallmark and Amer Mohammed Ali, Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (CWI Sweden) The climate demonstration in Copenhagen on 12 December, with over 100,000 participants, was the biggest climate protest ever. It had a strong

Copenhagen climate summit Save the planet – fight capitalism! Democratic planning the only solution CWI leaflet for Copenhagen climate summitt Just before this summit, new alarming facts were released: Carbon dioxide levels have reached 385.2 ppm – the highest level for 650,000 years, according to WMO (World Meteorological Organistion). Despite the Kyoto deal in 1997, carbon dioxide emissions have increased

Recession, Recovery, Banks, and Bubbles – Workers Face Jobless Recovery Printer-Friendly Oct 28, 2009 By Alan Jones, Socialist Alternative (CWI in USA) The stock market reached the 10,000 mark in the middle of October. Wall Street investment banks like Goldman Sachs were preparing to dole out a record $140 billion in pay to their traders. If you only watch the

World Economy 80th anniversary of the Wall Street Crash Capitalist failure, then and now! Peter Taaffe, General Secretary of the Socialist Party (CWI England and Wales) Scant attention has been paid to the 80th anniversary of the October 1929 Wall Street Crash. Preoccupied with their own present devastating global crisis, the moneybags, the capitalists, can hardly repeat their theme of

History 60th anniversary of Chinese Revolution Capitalism abolished, but power in hands of Stalinist Communist Party Survivors of the long march Vincent Kolo, chinaworker.info It is an especially nervous Communist Party (CCP) regime that presides over the 60th anniversary celebrations of the founding of the People’s Republic of China on 1 October. The regime is increasingly dependent on Olympic-style pageantry

Honduras Coup regime uses brutal repression on return of deposed President Zelaya For mass struggle to overthrow the coup regime; for socialist policies to end the rule of the oligarchs and army! Niall Mulholland, Committee for a Workers’ International Zelaya addresses crowds in capital The elected president of Honduras, Mel Zelaya, who was deposed by a right wing coup and

Iran Where now for the Iranian revolution? Working class must decisively enter struggle Tony Saunois, Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI) Thirty years after the 1979 revolution Iran has again erupted in revolutionary convulsions as millions have taken to the streets to protest against the undoubted rigging of the Presidential election. Within a few hours of polls closing, President Mahmoud

US: Modern capitalism and the “Swine Flu” outbreak Disaster worsened by profit system Andy Moxley and Aleida Vilchez, Socialist Alternative (CWI in USA) Mexico hit by flu epidemic While the swine flu epidemic has not revealed itself to be a pandemic, at least not yet on the scale of the 1918 Spanish Flu, it has exposed the role of profit

Gaza: the nightmare continues New ‘peace talks’ will not lead to genuine Palestinian state Niall Mulholland, CWI Three months after Israel’s war against Gaza that killed nearly 1,400 people, 314 of them children, and wounded thousands, conditions in the strip remain appalling and are worsening rapidly. The UN estimates that over 4,000 houses were destroyed by the Israeli Defence Force’s

South Africa ANC returned to power in landslide As class polarisation continues, black working class voters vest their hopes in Zuma …for now! Weizmann Hamilton, Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI in South Africa) On 22 April, in a record turnout that reversed falls in voter registration and polling in the two previous elections, 17.9 million voters — the highest number since

Committee for a Workers’ International May Day 2009 Statement World Capitalism In Crisis We will not pay for the failure of the profit system! Get organized – Resist! For fighting unions and mass workers’ parties! For international solidarity and socialism! The Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI) sends warm May Day greetings to workers, youth and the oppressed everywhere. Socialists,