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Iran: ‘Charter’ of independent unions & civil organizations a step forward, but consistent anti-capitalist, socialist approach required
Lukas Zöbelein, Sozialistische Organisation Solidarität (CWI Germany) Early March saw demonstrations across Iran in protest at the apparent chemical attacks against female students that have taken place since last November. This seems to be an organised attempt to intimidate young women who have been at the forefront of the mass opposition the regime has faced…
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Sri Lanka: Is the ‘National People’s Movement’ a viable mass alternative?
Siritunga Jayasuriya, United Socialist Party (CWI Sri Lanka) “Go Home Gota” was the slogan with which a new wave of mass struggle started in Sri Lanka in April last year. This struggle then developed into a massive popular uprising, including huge strikes, that by July 2022 had spread across the country. Eventually, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa…
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Ukraine war: Roots of the conflict
One year on from the outbreak of the brutal war in Ukraine HANNAH SELL reviews Ukraine and Russia: From Civilized Divorce to Uncivil War, a book that looks back at roots of the current conflict. Republished from socialismtoday.org. A year ago, on 24 February 2022, the world awoke to discover that the Russian president Vladimir…
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Marxism, intersectionality, and fighting women’s oppression today
To commemorate International Women’s Day (8 March) we are publishing an article written for Solidarität, the newspaper of the German section of the Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI). Chris Thomas ‘Woman, life, freedom’, ‘Black lives matter’, ‘#Metoo’, ‘Ni una menos’ – protests against shared oppression have been a salient feature of the post-2008 ‘Great…
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Growth continues and living standards continue to fall
John Gowland For three decades Australia has experienced almost continual growth, even escaping the 2008 GFC. While there has been a marked decline in living standards for workers in every country, now for the first time in a generation, workers in Australia have been hit hard and are still in a state of shock. New…
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State and Revolution
This article by Ryan Aldred is part of an ‘Introduction to Marxism’ series by the Socialist Party, our sister organisation in the UK. Lenin’s State and Revolution was written during the revolutionary upheavals that were taking place in Russia in 1917. By necessity it had to be cut short, as Lenin explains at the end…
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Capitalist society convulsed and in turmoil: new challenges and tasks for Marxists and the working class
The following document was agreed by the International Executive Committee of the CWI, 23-27 January 2023 Capitalist society is convulsed and in turmoil. Marxists and the working class face one of the most challenging periods in history. It is essential that we analyse the processes unfolding and face up to the theoretical and programmatic challenges…
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Threat of possible strike action looming over new NRL season
The NRL pay dispute highlights issues with how the sport is governed. The main obstacle to resolving the dispute is the intransigence of the body of businessmen running the NRL.
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Centenary of Irish ‘Free State’ – bloody counter revolution carried through
6 December marked the formal centenary of the creation of the ‘Free State’ in Ireland, comprising 26 of the 32 counties on the island, following the Anglo-Irish Treaty. One of the first actions of the new right-wing, militarised bourgeois state was the killing of imprisoned opposition republican figures, including Liam Mellows. Mellows was a leading…
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