Iceland: "You're fired!"
07/04/2016, Natalia Medina, Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (CWI Sweden), reports from Reykjavik :
Protesters stay on streets after forcing PM's resignation
Britain: Panama Papers scandal
06/04/2016, Dave Murray, from The Socialist (weekly paper of the Socialist Party
England & Wales):
‘They’re all in it together!’
Britain: Why socialists should vote to leave the EU
03/04/2016, From the Socialist, paper of the Socialist Party (CWI in England & Wales):
Hannah Sell, Socialist Party deputy general secretary, answers some
common questions about the socialist case for exit.
US election turmoil
01/04/2016, By Tony Saunois (CWI Secretary) who recently visited the US for meetings
of Socialist Alternative:
Bernie Sanders campaign - an opportunity to build a new party of the 99%
Bangladesh: Stop the Rampal power project
31/03/2016, Pete Mason, Barking and Dagenham Socialist Party (CWI in England & Wales):
The world’s largest mangrove forest lies on the deltas of three rivers:
the Ganges, Brahmaputra and Meghna rivers on the Bay of Bengal. It is
here, in an area of outstanding natural beauty called the Sundarbans,
that the Bangladeshi government plans to site a coal-fired power plant.
Britain: Steel crisis
30/03/2016, Alec Thraves, Socialist Party (England and Wales), CWI Britain:
Sold down the river by Tata
Refugee crisis
10/03/2016, Editorial from the Socialist, paper of the Socialist Party (CWI in
England & Wales):
Cruel capitalist regimes responsible
Sanders campaign at a crossroads
04/03/2016, socialistalternative.org, US:
Bernie’s political revolution will be strangled if it remains imprisoned
within the corporate-controlled Democratic Party.
Britain: A new moment
28/03/2016, Socialist Party (CWI in England & Wales), published in April 2016 issue
of Socialism Today:
Extracts from a statement discussed at the Socialist Party’s recent
congress
Five years on from the “Arab Spring”
20/02/2016, Serge Jordan (CWI), article to be published in the March 2016 edition of Socialism
Today, No.196.:
The “Arab Spring” revolutionary wave brought dictators in Tunisia and
Egypt crashing down. It swept through the Middle East, inspiring workers
and youth the world over. It has since ebbed, however, leaving the
region wracked with war and sectarian conflict.
Spain: A break in the political establishment
07/02/2016, Danny Byrne, CWI (article from issue 195 of ’Socialism Today’):
December’s elections broke the hold of the two main capitalist parties
for the first time since the Franco dictatorship. The high vote for
representatives of workers’ and social movements, and the recovery of
the left-populist Podemos, open up a new phase in the struggle against
austerity.
Venezuela: Right-wing landslide
20/01/2016, Tony Saunois, from February edition of Socialism
Today, magazine of the Socialist Party (CWI in England & Wales):
First electoral defeat suffered by the Chavistas since Hugo Chávez was
first elected president in 1998