Tag Archives: imperialism

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 Berkay Kartav London Socialist Party On Saturday 13 January, once again hundreds of thousands of people flooded the streets of London to join the first national demonstration of 2024, marching from Bank to Downing Street. Appalled by the brutal war on Gaza and the recent US and British airstrikes in Yemen, it was clear that the anger towards world ...

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 (Committee for a Workers International – CWI) On Sunday 15 August, Taliban militiamen, packed onto their trademark pick-up trucks, drove unopposed into Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul, ousting the US-backed government of Ashraf Ghani. Thousands of fearful residents, many with bitter memories of the last Taliban regime, tried desperately to board planes to flee the hardline Islamic force. Ghani ...

By Robert Bechert on the CWI website  Shockwaves went around the world, and outrage spread in the Middle East, as news broke of Trump’s unilateral decision to assassinate Qassem Suleimani, commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards’ Quds Force and a key Iranian leader. Suleimani had a legendary status, particularly amongst Shias, throughout the Middle East. He was a labourer’s son ...