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- Socialist Refugee from Ukraine Speaks to the Committee for a Workers’ InternationalIn mid-April, the Russian military withdrew from northern Ukraine to focus its invasion on occupying the Donbas region in the east, where ethnic Russians and the Ukrainian government have engaged in eight years of civil war. The Russian offensive in Ukraine has been bogged down since the initial invasion in February. The resistance has been much stiffer than the Russian military likely anticipated. The withdrawal from the north is a clear setback for Russian imperialism. The human cost of the invasion becomes increasingly apparent, with the U.N. reporting at least 3,000 confirmed civilian deaths since the invasion.
- Workers Won’t Go Back: Build a Movement to Defend and Expand Abortion Rights!On May 2nd, a draft opinion from the Supreme Court case Dobbs v. Jackson was leaked to the public, suggesting that the ruling in thisContinue reading “Workers Won’t Go Back: Build a Movement to Defend and Expand Abortion Rights!”
- International Workers Day 2022: Momentum at Amazon & StarbucksBy Nicholas Wurst (Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Workers Local 1473) and Evren Pallares Ó Laoghaire (Teamsters Local 170) A version of this articleContinue reading “International Workers Day 2022: Momentum at Amazon & Starbucks”
- Education in Crisis: A Conversation Between EducatorsEmery A., a union paraeducator in Saco, ME recently spoke with B, a union public school IT worker in Worcester, MA about the current workContinue reading “Education in Crisis: A Conversation Between Educators”
- What is Socialism?by Jacob Bilsky and Sam Skinner As the United States approaches one million deaths due to COVID-19, economic conditions are worsening for working people. TheContinue reading “What is Socialism?”
- Healthcare in Crisis: Interview with a Hospital WorkerS is an ASCP-certified Medical Laboratory Technician from Ohio and a member of the Independent Socialist Group Can you describe what you do and whatContinue reading “Healthcare in Crisis: Interview with a Hospital Worker”
Updates from the CWI

- The Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales) congress took place from 14 to 16 May in London – the first since February 2020 because of Covid. Congress is the most important democratic decision-making body of […] The post Socialist Party congress 2022: Social explosion is inevitable appeared first on .
- The Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM) joins members of the public to condemn the brutal and gruesome killing on Thursday 12 May 2022 of Ms. Deborah Samuel, a second year student at Shehu Shagari College of […] The post Mob killing of student for “blasphemy” indicates danger of descent into full blown barbarism in Nigeria appeared […]
- The results of the Northern Ireland Assembly election on May 5th mark a significant political turning point. For the first time since the partition of Ireland in 1921, a nationalist party has emerged with the […] The post Ireland North: Sinn Féin emerges as largest party in Assembly elections appeared first on .
- March 17th 2022 will now always be synonymous with P&O as far as trade union activists are concerned, with the vicious assault on the workers’ jobs and contracts carried out on that day. The company […] The post Britain: Lessons of the P&O mass sackings appeared first on .
- Putin’s brutal regime emerged in conditions of economic anarchy as a new capitalist class was forming amidst the collapse of the previously planned economy. Peter Taaffe reviews a recent book that graphically describes what happened. […] The post How Russia’s gangster capitalists seized power appeared first on .