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By Amnon Cohen The new, far-right, ultra-nationalist Israeli government was sworn in in December 2022. It has already provoked unprecedented protests in Israel. On 14 January 80,000 took to the streets, despite threats from the internal security minister to deploy water cannons against the demonstrators. The following week the number of demonstrators rose to 130,000. On 27 January, nine Palestinians ...

International Executive Committee of the CWI 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 posed, along with the active intervention in the class struggle necessary to build a mass ...

Fight for democratic public ownership of social media By Joe Fathallah, Cardiff East Socialist Party Elon Musk, currently the world’s richest billionaire, has completed the takeover of micro-blogging platform Twitter for a sum of $44 billion. The New York Stock Exchange reported on 20 October that trading in Twitter’s shares had been suspended, with the reason “merger effective”. Musk himself ...

Tu Senan, Committee For a Workers International Tens of thousands gathered in Sri Lanka again today to make sure that President Gotabaya Rajapaksa finally resigned and was gone. With the help of the military, the president was reported to have fled the country to Maldives in the early morning. Resignation news would only come via the Speaker of the Parliament. ...

Editorial of the Socialist, issue 1170 The horror of war, of families fleeing for their lives as bombs fall on their cities and towns, is dominating the news. Putin’s brutal invasion of Ukraine is being watched with fear and revulsion. His farcical propaganda claims this is a ‘special military operation’, designed to fight ‘Ukrainian fascism’. Yet Ukraine is being trampled ...

By Niall Mulholland The war in Ukraine has revisited the ‘national question’ in Europe, ie the language, culture, and democratic rights of populations to territory, in a bloody manner, not seen since the Balkans wars in the 1990s following the breakup of Yugoslavia. Niall Mulholland of the Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI) explains how capitalism cannot peacefully solve the ...

Stop the war in UkraineWithdraw Russian troops and end the bombingNo trust in NatoFor workers’ unity, for self-determination and full democratic rights for all minoritiesNo trust in Johnson, Putin, Biden, or Zelensky. For an independent workers’ movementFight for a socialist alternative to capitalism and war War is the inevitable consequence of an international capitalist system based on profit, exploitation and ...

By Nick Chaffey Mass protests across Sudan have continued in response to the latest agreement between Abdalla Hamdok and the military tops. Continuing demands for ‘Power to the People’ show this mass movement is determined to end the rule of the military and is angered at the betrayal of Hamdok in willingly acting for the military. The mass protests across ...

By Ross Saunders Pablo Iglesias, one of the founders of Podemos and its most prominent representative, announced his resignation from politics earlier this year – the tenth anniversary of the movement of the indignados which gave birth to the new party. Ross Sauunders looks back at the formation of Podemos, its development, and the mistakes of its leaders which have ...

By New Socialist Alternative (CWI India) On 19 November, India’s PM Narendra Modi announced the repeal of the three farm bills passed last year by his BJP (Bharatiya Janata Party) authoritarian government. It is truly a historic victory, specifically of India’s farmers but also of the larger working masses against the BJP regime. These laws were a savage neoliberal attack ...