Category Archives: History & Theory

This article was originally written for socialistworld.net, the website of the Committee for a Workers’ International. 40th anniversary of the founding of the CWI To mark the 40th anniversary of the founding of the Committee for a Workers’ International on April 21st 1974 we are publishing here three items. The first is an interview withContinue reading “CWI: History of the Committee for a Workers’ International”

This article was originally written for socialistworld.net, the website of the Committee for a Workers’ International. Martin Luther King moved from a position for a gradual reform of capitalism towards an understanding that more radical ideas were needed. "The size of the mobilization on that hot August day in 1963 was unprecedented; the upbeat, confidentContinue reading “US: “I have a dream” – 50th anniversary of the march on Washington for
jobs and freedom”

This article was originally written for socialistworld.net, the website of the Committee for a Workers’ International. Interview on Militant, the Labour Party and the struggle of the socialist led council 1983-87 in Liverpool Listen to the interview here Source: BBC

This article was originally written for socialistworld.net, the website of the Committee for a Workers’ International. Who was Malcolm X? "By any means necessary" – Malcolm X’s expression of militant civil rights – is known worldwide by young people fighting against racism. In the 1950s and 60s, black workers in the US southern states roseContinue reading “Black History Month”

This article was originally written for socialistworld.net, the website of the Committee for a Workers’ International. Colonialism, national liberation and revolutionary struggle Fifty years ago, in 1962, the ‘Algerian war’, one of the longest and bloodiest anti-colonial conflicts, ended with the victory of the Algerian fighters against French imperialism. Algeria had been under French colonialContinue reading “Algeria: War of independence 1954-1962”

This article was originally written for socialistworld.net, the website of the Committee for a Workers’ International. Contradictions of history being unravelled amid mass struggles of today Today is the 39th anniversary of “the other 9/11” – the brutal coup in Chile led by Augosto Pinochet, backed by US imperialism which overturned the democratically elected governmentContinue reading “Chile: Anniversary of “the other 9/11””

This article was originally written for socialistworld.net, the website of the Committee for a Workers’ International. Heroic few weeks when working class took power Today is the anniversary of the start of the Paris Commune. Below, we reproduce an article written last year by Niall Mulholland, to celebrate its 140th anniversary. The mass struggles againstContinue reading “Paris commune 1871: When workers “stormed heaven””

This article was originally written for socialistworld.net, the website of the Committee for a Workers’ International. Forty years ago, Bangladesh became an independent state, breaking away from Pakistan. This followed years of repression at the hands of the political and military elite in power since Pakistan’s independence from British colonial rule in 1947. KHALID BHATTIContinue reading “Bangladesh: The birth of Bangladesh”

This article was originally written for socialistworld.net, the website of the Committee for a Workers’ International. 40th anniversary of Attica Prison Uprising “We are MEN! We are not beasts and do not intend to be beaten or driven as such. The entire prison populace has set forth to change forever the ruthless brutalisation and disregardContinue reading “US: “Sound before the fury of the oppressed”!”

This article was originally written for socialistworld.net, the website of the Committee for a Workers’ International. The bloody terrorist outrages of 11 September 2001 in New York, Pennsylvania and Washington were one of the defining moments in recent history. We publish this article some days before the actual anniversary of 9/11 as a contribution toContinue reading “The consequences of 9/11: A world turned upside down”