Editorial from Socialist (社会主义者‏) magazine issue 50, Winter 2018 Government abandons its campaign against financial risk as private companies queue for a bailout The Chinese economic slowdown is intensifying amid the most serious crisis in US-China relations for four decades. But so far the trade war with America’s volatile president Donald Trump is not the main cause of China’s economic ...

Theresa May’s government is on the brink. Yesterday the resignations began. Esther McVey and Dominic Raab were first out the door, along with a number of junior ministers. More could potentially follow them in the hours ahead. Coups, plots and leadership challenges are all being openly discussed. The trade union and labour movement must intervene now. Jeremy Corbyn and the ...

By Gareth Bromhall (Swansea Socialist Students) Students from across Wales gathered in Swansea on the 3rd of November for a Socialist Students Wales regional meeting. Activists from Universities in Swansea, Aberystwyth and Cardiff started the day off with a campaign stall in the City Centre, calling for an end to Universal Credit and demanding a General Election to kick out ...

By Pittsburgh Socialist Alternative (CWI in USA) On Saturday morning, 27 October, a man shouting anti-Semitic slogans opened fire at the Tree of Life Synagogue in the historically Jewish Squirrel Hill neighbourhood, in Pittsburgh. Eleven people were killed during the morning shabbat service, and during a bris, a ceremony welcoming a baby to the Jewish community. This horrific shooting is ...

By LIBERDADE, SOCIALISMO E REVOLUCAO (LSR – CWI in Brazil) The victory of Jair Bolsonaro in the second round of the Brazilian elections represents a huge political step backwards for the country and the Brazilian people. We do not share the cynicism of bourgeois analysts who speak about the legitimacy of the system and “consolidation” of the democratic institutions. A ...

By Matt Dobson (Socialist Party Scotland) 8,500 Glasgow working class women made history on October 23/24. As the BBC news commented, it was the “one of the biggest ever strikes in the UK on the issue of equal pay”. In truth, it was more like an uprising in which the power of the working class was clearly demonstrated. In a phenomenal ...

By Shahar Benhorin, Socialist Struggle Movement (CWI in Israel/Palestine) Over 160 people participated in the ‘Socialism Conference 2018’ event hosted in Tel Aviv by the Socialist Struggle Movement (SSM) on 27 – 29 September. Among the participants were workers and youth, trade unionists and left activists, Israeli Jews, Palestinians and some international guests. The event took place against the background ...

College lecturers in Wales have voted by an overwhelming majority, busting the undemocratic Tory strike threshold, to strike for an improved pay offer and against increasing workloads. The employers organisation, Colegau Cymru, have refused to recognise the all Wales ballot demanding that the union divides up the dispute college by college, even though Colegau Cymru negotiates for all the colleges ...

Editorial from The Socialist October 17 2018 Before this week’s EU summit Tory ministers were once again desperately trying to square the circle on their Brexit proposals. At such a late stage and with no EU withdrawal agreement, May still hung onto a variant of her ‘Chequers proposal’, despite it facing opposition from many Tory backbench Brexiteers and Remainers and ...

From the editorial of The Socialist If a variant of British Prime Minister Theresa May’s Chequers proposal eventually becomes a Brexit deal, it will mean Britain remaining subject to much of the EU’s austerity-promoting and privatising neoliberalism. On the other hand, if the Tories who want a ‘hard’ break from the EU win out, it will also be against workers’ ...