This post was originally written for socialistworld.net, the website of the Committee for a Workers’ International. Around 48,000 General Motors workers are on strike nationwide in the United States for the sixth day. The United Auto Workers union walked out of all 55 US plants on 15 September, for the first time since Obama bailedContinue reading “Workers at US General Motors take strike action”
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South Africa: Only workers’ unity can overcome xenophobia
This article was originally written for socialistworld.net, the website of the Committee for a Workers’ International. Over the past month, capitalism has once again bared its barbaric underbelly in South Africa in a wave of xenophobic violence. Thirteen have died, so far. Struggling small businesses, foreign national and South African alike, have been destroyed. ManyContinue reading “South Africa: Only workers’ unity can overcome xenophobia”
Socialist change not climate change!
This article was originally written for socialistworld.net, the website of the Committee for a Workers’ International. Even an entire society, a nation or all simultaneously existing societies taken together are not owners of the earth, they are simply its possessors, its beneficiaries, and have to bequeath it in an improved state to succeeding generations, asContinue reading “Socialist change not climate change!”
Climate change: What’s socialism got to do with it?
This article was originally written for socialistworld.net, the website of the Committee for a Workers’ International. Recent images of the Amazon rainforest ablaze highlighted the scale of change currently underway. At the height of the fires, an area the size of a football pitch was destroyed every minute. Greenland’s ice sheet alone has lost threeContinue reading “Climate change: What’s socialism got to do with it?”
South Korea and Japan trade dispute threatens ‘alliance’
This article was originally written for socialistworld.net, the website of the Committee for a Workers’ International. On 22nd August South Korea gave Japan notice that it would not be extending the General Security of Military Information Agreement (GSOMIA). The 2016 agreement allowed for the direct sharing of military intelligence between Japan, the Republic of KoreaContinue reading “South Korea and Japan trade dispute threatens ‘alliance’”
Violence against women in South Africa: How should organised workers respond?
This article was originally written for socialistworld.net, the website of the Committee for a Workers’ International, by the Marxist Workers Party, the South African branch of the CWI. The rape and murder of Cape Town student Uyinene Mrwetyana was the final spark that lit a new wave of protests demanding an end to violence against women.Continue reading “Violence against women in South Africa: How should organised workers respond?”
Chile 1973: The other ‘9/11’ – The bloody coup against the Popular Unity government
This article was originally written for socialistworld.net, the website of the Committee for a Workers’ International. The terrorist attack on the Twin Towers in New York in 2001 was not the first ‘9/11’. In Chile on 11 September 1973, a bloody coup, led by General Pinochet and backed by the US administration, overthrew the democraticallyContinue reading “Chile 1973: The other ‘9/11’ – The bloody coup against the Popular Unity government”
West Papua: Mass demonstrations erupt against Indonesian repression
This article was originally written for socialistworld.net, the website of the Committee for a Workers’ International. The Indonesian government has sent more than 3,700 police and military forces into West Papua following nearly three weeks of protests and mass demonstrations in the region. These were triggered when the Indonesian National Army (TNI) and right-wing vigilantesContinue reading “West Papua: Mass demonstrations erupt against Indonesian repression”
Rebuilding the CWI, Lessons and tasks
This article was originally written for socialistworld.net, the website of the Committee for a Workers’ International. Following an intense and polarized factional struggle in the last 12 months an international conference was convened by the International Secretariat in London in July 2019. This very successful and optimistic meeting agreed to re-constitute the CWI. The conferenceContinue reading “Rebuilding the CWI, Lessons and tasks”
World Perspectives: Marxist analysis of tumultuous events and key tasks for the workers’ movement
This article was originally written for socialistworld.net, the website of the Committee for a Workers’ International. The following world perspectives document was discussed, amended and passed by delegates and visitors at an international conference, held in London from July 22-25 2019, to reconstitute the Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI). Global events have, of course,Continue reading “World Perspectives: Marxist analysis of tumultuous events and key tasks for the workers’ movement”
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