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Joint statement from New Socialist Alternative (Indian section of CWI) and CWI supporters in Pakistan The ruling BJP (Bharatiya Janata Party) regime in India has once again displayed its contempt and aversion to basic values of democracy. During the past week this regime had been increasing its armed forces to the tune of 35,000 in the already militarised Kashmir valley, ...

By Hannah Sell On Sunday 21 July over 200 delegates at a special conference of the Socialist Party in England and Wales voted overwhelmingly, 83.2% to 16.8%, (173 – 35 with 0 abstentions), to sponsor an international conference to reconstitute the Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI – the international organisation of which the Socialist Party is part). The international ...

By John Gillman Harrowing scenes are now coming out of Sudan of the 3 June massacre, where doctors report well over 100 people were murdered by the Transitional Military Council (TMC) and general ‘Hemeti’ Dagola’s brutal Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia. With the suspended internet now restored, videos and testament have been shown on mainstream media of mass shootings of ...

By Robin Clapp Last week, US President Donald Trump announced that under the rarely invoked International Emergency Economic Powers Act, the Chinese telecoms giant Huawei and seventy of its affiliated companies are set to be added to the ‘Entity List’. This effectively bans them from acquiring components and technology from American firms without obtaining prior government approval. This has massively ...

We publish here a translation of a declaration by Izquierda Revolucionaria (IR)the Marxist organisation in Venezuela against both the US-backed coup and the corrupt Maduro government. IR is the sister party of the Socialist Party as an affiliate of the Committee For A Workers International (CWI). Thursday 24 January The situation in Venezuela has reached a critical point during the ...

Tories torn apart, French workers and youth in revolt, ‘populism’ on the rise … revolution in the air? By Peter Taaffe, General Secretary of the Socialist Party “I have never been more ashamed to be a Conservative. We continue to be led by a mule flogging a dead horse” (Allison Pearson, Daily Telegraph columnist). This blistering attack on Prime Minister Theresa May and the Tory government – before ...

By Roger Butler, Swansea and District NUJ (personal capacity) and Swansea and West Wales Socialist Party The murder of Saudi Arabian journalist Jamal Khashoggi has brought into horrifying focus the dangers faced by reporters throughout the world. At least 74 journalists have been murdered so far in 2018 – and in the past six years, more than 600 journalists have ...

By Clare Doyle, Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI) After three weeks of increasingly angry mass protests, president Emmanuel Macron of France has suspended the massively contested tax on diesel. Whether this will defuse the mass movement calling for his government to resign remains to be seen. On Monday 3 December, when the French prime minister, Edouard Philippe, met opposition ...

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 ...

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 ...