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Portugal

General strikes in Portugal see off assault on workplace conditions and union rights

July 16, 2026 Caspar Loettgers, Sol (CWI Germany)

In 2025, the Economist magazine named Portugal the “Economy of the Year”. According to the magazine, high growth rates and a lucrative stock market promise good investment opportunities for those with the necessary capital. But [...]
Chile

Chile under José Antonio Kast’s government; contradictions of Chilean capitalism

July 14, 2026 Hugo Rodriquez (Socialismo Revolucionario - CWI Chile)

Chilean politics is going through a moment of profound change. After decades of neoliberal predominance carried out by the former “Centre “coalition negotiating with the right, the country has experienced a growing social and political [...]
Austria

Graz City Council election: Communist Party of Austria increases vote to 35.7%

July 11, 2026 CWI

Mass mobilisations needed to fight cuts by federal and state government! “The year is 2026. All over the world, right-wing and far-right parties are winning elections… all over the world? No! In Graz, a small [...]
Youth and Students

Youth and Student Anti-War Assembly held in Cologne

July 10, 2026 Becca Bayman, delegate to the assembly and Liverpool Socialist Students

On 14 June, members of Socialist Students (England and Wales) attended a Youth and Student Anti-War Assembly in Cologne, Germany. Twelve organisations from eight countries across Europe took part, including socialist youth organisations, climate justice [...]
Americas

Latin America’s class struggle intensifies

July 8, 2026 Celso Calfullan, CIT (CWI) in Chile

There is practically no country on the American continent that is stable: Argentina, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Chile, and Colombia — in all of them today there is great political and social instability, and the class [...]

What will Trump’s truce and any deal with Iran actually bring?

June 24, 2026

Once again slim hopes have risen that the death toll in West Asia’s current wars will, at least, lessen with the announcement of a 60-day extension of the shaky truce between the US and Iran. As Gaza, and now Lebanon, has shown, a truce can lessen the numbers of dead and injured but not completely stop the killing and […]

Netanyahu Government Initiated Escalation in Lebanon in Hope of Collapsing the Ceasefire with Iran

June 12, 2026

Under pressure, Netanyahu declared that “at the moment, the fire has been halted”. But the war on Lebanon continues and the aggression against Iran has only halted for the moment First published on socialiststruggle.org on […]

Iran, the Middle East, and the struggle for socialism

April 20, 2026

The impunity with which US-Israel waged war on Iran, killed its supreme leader, preceded by the genocide in Gaza, has led to shock, disbelief and anger among the masses in the region and around the […]

Tens of Thousands March Again Against ICE

February 1, 2026

Once again, tens of thousands participated in a march through downtown Minneapolis on January 30th as part of a “shutdown” against ICE and state repression. Over 300 actions were planned across the country. This time, wrongly, there […]

EYEWITNESS | The Minneapolis Anti-ICE ‘General Strike’

January 24, 2026

Tens of thousands mobilized 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 agents to the state of Minnesota. […]

National Guard Deployed in Los Angeles – Trump’s escalation Met with Resistance

June 16, 2025

President Trump ordered the US National Guard and Marines to the streets of Los Angeles to counter protests against the deportation of immigrant workers and their families. This is a major escalation of violent action […]

What will New York’s ‘democratic socialist’ mayor Mamdani do next?

January 12, 2026

On January 1, 2026, Zohran Mamdani took office as mayor of New York City amid continued interest and anticipation for his “New Era” of affordability for working class New Yorkers. According to his transition website, 50,000 in the city applied to [...]

New York: Winning the demands of the Mamdani mayor campaign

January 9, 2026

“A great New Yorker once said that while you campaign in poetry, you govern in prose.”– From Zohran Mamdani’s victory speech, quoting Mario Cuomo, a former Democratic Party Governor of New York State. “Socialist reform [...]

The World Impact of Two Years of War on Gaza – and what lies ahead?

October 6, 2025

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 […]

Hamas and the Palestinian National Liberation Struggle

January 4, 2024

A printable version of this article can be downloaded here. The Israeli army is laying waste to Gaza. Whole communities are being destroyed and entire families wiped-out. The scale of displacement, as people are forced […]

The Roots of the Israel-Palestine Conflict and the War on Gaza

December 8, 2023

The world’s imperialist powers have always intervened in the Middle East for their own political, strategic and economic interests. On the one hand dishing out investment, aid, trade deals and promises of protection, and on […]

Trump’s “28-Point Ukraine Peace Plan”

November 24, 2025

White House clashes with Zelensky and European backers over The war in Ukraine has returned to the top of global headlines following US president Trump’s latest attempt to impose a peace plan on Ukraine president [...]

Ukraine’s Fate in the Trumpian World

August 20, 2025

The recent summit between President Trump and President Putin, held in Alaska under the guise of “peace diplomacy,” and the hurriedly convened meeting of Ukraine leader, Vladimir Zelensky, and leading European powers at the White [...]

Statement on Europe

April 24, 2026

Over the weekend of 18-19 April, the CWI’s European Bureau met in London, with comrades from Austria, England & Wales, France, Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands, Romania and Scotland in attendance. The Bureau discussed and debated […]

HUNGARY | Orbán Concedes Defeat

April 16, 2026

Lessons on the character and limits of right-populism in government in Europe Viktor Orban has conceded defeat in Hungary’s parliamentary elections, ending the first and longest ‘experiment’ in right-populist government in this era. At the […]

ITALY | Assessing the ‘Fascist’ Meloni Government

February 5, 2026

Originally published in Socialism Today, magazine of the Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales). Giorgia Meloni’s coalition government in Italy has been in power for over three years now. If she lasts to the end […]

Sri Lanka: What is the class character of the NPP government?

September 26, 2025

It has been more than a year since the current government, led by Anura Kumara Dissanayake, came to power. Since the National People’s Power (NPP) government took office, there has been ongoing debate about its […]

National People’s Power Wins General Election – Revolution, reform, or rhetoric?

November 18, 2024

Sri Lanka’s general election, held on 14 November, marked a breaking-point in the country’s political history. The National People’s Power (NPP) secured an extraordinary 159 seats, achieving a two-thirds majority in Parliament. This result shocked […]

A Marxist Alternative to Sri Lanka’s Crises

October 21, 2024

For the first time in Sri Lanka’s history, the country finds itself under the leadership of a president—Anura Kumara Dissanayake—who hails from a party with a left-leaning background. However, despite the media’s portrayal of him […]

Nigeria’s 2012 Uprising

January 11, 2022

When Strikes and protests nearly swept a capitalist regime out of power Ten years ago, instead of the festivities that often herald the New Year, Nigerian working people and youth started the year 2012 at […]

Month of EndSARS Turmoil Shakes Buhari Regime

October 28, 2020

Nigeria has passed through nearly a month of turmoil. Video footage of the hated SARS police unit killing a man and driving off in his car was the spark for mass protests. Years of frustration, […]

MADAGASCAR | Mass Protests Bring Down Government in Madagascar

October 8, 2025

Madagascar has been rocked by waves of protests, the largest of their kind on the island in over 15 years. Demonstrations began on 25 September, following the arrest on 19 September of two local politicians […]

NEPAL | Eruption of Mass Protest – what is the way forward?

September 23, 2025

Nepal has now joined the long list of developing nations revolting against a rotten and corrupt ruling elite. The immediate trigger was the government’s decision to ban 26 social media platforms on Thursday, 4 September. […]

INDONESIA | Anger Intensifies in Protest Wave After Worker Killed by Police

September 8, 2025

Just ten months into Prabowo Subianto’s tenure as President, social unrest is reaching a peak in Indonesia. On Friday, August 29th, a gig economy food delivery worker was killed after being run over by a […]

MOZAMBIQUE | “Revolutionary Atmosphere” as Mass Protests Challenge Ruling Elite

November 22, 2024

Protests have rocked Mozambique since ‘preliminary’ results of presidential and legislative elections held on 9 October declared the ruling Mozambican Liberation Front (Frelimo) the winner. Mozambique can be added to the growing rollcall of neocolonial […]

BANGLADESH | Mass Protests Topple Government – No Trust in Capitalist Elites

August 12, 2024

The revolutionary mass movement in Bangladesh is at a critical juncture. A 17-member interim government has been established, including in it a few young leaders who emerged from the mass protests which toppled the government. […]

KENYA | Mass Protests Force Government to Retreat

June 27, 2024

Mass protests in Kenya have forced the government to withdraw unpopular tax increases. These amounted to a massive attack on the living standards of the middle class, the working class, the poor and young people. […]

Global Warning: North Sea oil test for net zero politics

by Mark Best, from Socialism Today (issue 299 July/August 2026), monthly magazine of the Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales) in Environment & Climate Change

In Britain in the run up to June 18, eyes were turned towards the Makerfield parliamentary by-election – transformed by Andy Burnham into a ‘referendum on Labour prime minister Keir Starmer’s leadership. Another by-election on the [...]

CWI attends fourth ‘Internationalist’ meeting

May 21, 2026

Between May 15th-17th, representatives of over 30 revolutionary organisations – Trotskyist, Leninist and one anarcho-syndicalist – from around the world, met in Paris, France, at an ‘Internationalist’ meeting to discuss the world situation and major [...]

CWI Malaysia Holds Successful National Meeting

February 10, 2026

A national meeting of Sosialis Alternatif (SA) Malaysia, the CWI in Malaysia, was held from 16–18 January on Pangkor Island, off the coast of Perak in the Straits of Malacca. The discussions included several newly [...]

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