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Editorial of the Socialist issue 1358 US and Israeli missiles are continuing to rain down on Iran, with thousands killed. The Iranian regime is in turn still firing at targets across the Middle East. Fifteen countries have so far been hit by one side or the other, with an estimated 7.5 million people living within 1km of a missile or ...

By ISG and CWI reporters Tens of thousands mobilised in a day of action in Minneapolis on 23 January against the state repression of Trump’s administration and its brutal deployment of three thousand ICE (US Immigration and Customs Enforcement) agents to the state of Minnesota. This mass mobilisation was termed an ‘economic blackout’ by sections of the capitalist media, ‘a ...

US Forces out of Latin America For workers’ unity and socialism By Tony Saunois (Committee For A Workers’ International) The kidnaping of Venezuelan President, Nicolás Maduro, and his wife, Celia Flores, through the military assault by US imperialism has, in a dramatic fashion, ushered in 2026. This naked colonial attack by the Trump regime will have profound consequences in Venezuela, ...

Build mass workers’ parties to challenge the capitalist system In the days since Trump’s abduction and arrest of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro shocked the world, the motivation for and planning of this attack have become clearer. Maduro is being held in New York facing a ‘trial’ on drug and weapons charges. All the rhetoric about ‘narco-terrorism’ won’t cover up the ...

By Judy Beishon On the second anniversary of the 7 October 2023 attack on Israel and the subsequent prolonged genocidal slaughter in Gaza, the fate of Trump’s latest proposals for an end to the war is still in the balance. The US plans to impose a transitional government of technocrats on the Palestinians in Gaza, backed up by outside armed ...

The Netanyahu-Trump gang is expanding regional conflagration in service of the occupation and the rule of capital Advance broad protest, refusal, and strike action with the call: No to the Israel-Iran war, an end to the war of extermination in Gaza, overthrow Israel’s ‘government of death’ – yes to a cross-border struggle for equality, welfare, and personal security, no to ...

By James Collett Recent criticism of Israel for the suffering inflicted on the people of Gaza, from Keir Starmer and foreign secretary David Lammy is pure hypocrisy, typical of the British ruling capitalist class they both represent. Capitalist governments, including the Labour government in Britain, have been attempting to balance between their support for the imperialist interests represented by the ...

Statement by the International Secretariat Committee For A Workers’ International It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Peter Taaffe, who after a long illness died on 23 April 2025. The loss of Peter is a big blow to the working-class movement and Trotskyism internationally. Since becoming active in the revolutionary movement in 1960, Peter made an ...

Editorial of the Socialist issue 1316 The global stock markets have plunged in reaction to President Donald Trump’s 2 April ‘liberation day’ announcements. Around $5.4 trillion was wiped from the value of the US stock markets in the first two days. The 9.1% fall was the biggest in a week since the Covid pandemic lockdowns ground the world economy to ...

Statement from the Committee For A Workers International (CWI) on International Women’s Day Looking around the world on International Women’s Day 2025 it would seem that women’s rights are under attack in almost every part of the globe. Poverty, inequality, war and environmental destruction are the multiple consequences of a global capitalist system in profound crisis. These crises affect all ...