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“You fight capitalism with socialism” – BLM and socialist struggle

June 13, 2020 Hannah Sell, from The Socialist (newspaper of the Socialist Party - CWI England & Wales)

The current Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement is the biggest wave of protests against racism since the Civil Rights movement in the 1960s. The most [...]
BLM

USA: Black and white youth rise up against racism

June 12, 2020 Interview with Independent Socialist Group (USA) protester

Emery Addams from the Independent Socialist Group (US) talks about the significance of the mass anti-racist protests shaking the US, outlining the programme and organisation [...]
France

France: 20,000 rally against Paris’s killer gendarmes

June 12, 2020 Gauche Révolutionnaire (CWI France) Reporters

Young people and workers have protested across the world. In France, an inquiry verdict on 29 May cleared three gendarmes (military police) of killing 24-year-old [...]
Coronavirus

“For the world, the blow will be very difficult and very serious,” – Russian oligarch warns about economic consequences of pandemic

June 11, 2020 Dmitriev Alexandr, CWI Russia

Anatoly Chubais, the Russian oligarch, Chairman of Rusnano and one of the main initiators of privatisation in the 1990s, warned Forbes magazine recently about the [...]
BLM

Black Lives Matter protests sweep Britain: How can the movement win?

June 10, 2020 Editorial from The Socialist (weekly paper of the Socialist Party - CWI England & Wales)

“We have outgrown you, despite your best efforts to keep us in the same place. You are in power, but you are outmoded. You’re the [...]
France

Empty accolades for health workers, billions for big companies, lay-offs for millions – Macron “managing’ the crisis”

June 9, 2020 Leïla Messaoudi, Councillor for Petit-Quevilly (Rouen) and a member of Gauche Révolutionnaire (CWI in France)

After two and a half months, the lockdown is now over in France and it is time to draw a first balance sheet. There is [...]

Coronavirus plunges capitalism into global turmoil -The need for a socialist alternative

March 23, 2020

Statement from International Secretariat of the CWI 23 March 2020 The outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic has plunged world capitalism and society into an entirely new era of turmoil and upheaval. In country after country, […]

World Economy: The new crisis and its consequences

March 19, 2020

As global markets reel in the face of the developing coronavirus pandemic, it is difficult to see how these events will not be the trigger for a new world capitalist economic downturn, with all the […]

Capitalist crisis and coronavirus: Tory Prime Minister Johnson’s budget for the bosses

March 14, 2020

British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, won the general election, last December, by trying to pose as a ‘man of the people’. Despite the rhetoric the first budget of his premiership showed clearly that, like all […]