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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 Robert Bechert The victory of Trump and his refashioned Republican party clearly opens new chapters in both US and world history. For many in a polarised US this victory of right populism will strike more than a note of fear, especially among women fearing attacks on their reproductive rights and migrants fearing they, or their family members, will be ...

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 Tony Saunois, secretary of the Committee For A Workers’ International (CWI) Amid unprecedented events, thousands of supporters of Donald Trump supporters rallied in Washington on 6 January. Hundreds, some armed, then stormed the congress buildings on Capitol Hill in Washington DC. Donald Trump, promising a “wild” protest had summoned his supporters to come together, with far-right militias like the ...

By Robert Bechert, Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI) In the US, and around the world, millions greeted Trump’s defeat in the US elections. His probable removal from office, notwithstanding his legal claims, will be widely welcomed. Clearly, there will be changes within the US and international repercussions – although many of the US foreign policy changes will be in ...

By Dani Smith Around 200 people took part in a socially distanced demonstration held by the Black Lives Matter campaign in Cardiff. This turnout – which is fantastic in light of the pandemic and the rapid nature of the development of the protest movement around the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis – reflects a burning desire amongst working people ...

By Jai Chavis and Nicholas Wurst, Independent Socialist Group (US) On 25 May, police in Minneapolis choked George Floyd, an unarmed black man, who subsequently died. His death was disturbingly reminiscent of the NYPD killing of Eric Garner in 2014. A released video recorded by bystanders shows Floyd repeatedly pleading, “I can’t breathe”,  as officer Derek Chauvin crushes his neck ...

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 ...