China
25 years since the June 4 Tiananmen massacre
Can the Chinese dictatorship survive another quarter of a century?
Vincent Kolo, chinaworker.info
June 4th marks the 25th anniversary of the bloody massacre in Beijing that ended the mass student-led democracy movement which came close to topp...
Reviews
How US imperialism helped to foster al Qaeda
Despite their recent propaganda it was US governments that helped to create the Frankenstein’s monster of right-wing islamism and al Qaeda
We here republish a review article from 2004 by Laurence Coates in Socialism Today (journal of the CWI in En...
Reviews
The Wolf of Wall Street – film review
The Hollywood film The Wolf of Wall Street has generated a lot of controversy
This film is based on the memoirs of Jordan Belfort, a finance shark who according to the US government still owes his victims US$100m in restitution. The film is banned...
Reviews
Review: Lenin’s revolutionary legacy
‘Lenin’ by Lars T Lih
Peter Taaffe, from Socialism Today (No.175, February 2014)
In an attempt to answer the description of Lenin by capitalist historians as a brutal dictator, some on the left turn to Lars T Lih. He has tried to reinvent the...
International
South Africa: Mandela’s legacy
Heroically leading ANC to power but struggle tragically into dead end
Weizmann Hamilton and Thamsanqa Dumezweni, DSM (CWI South Africa)
The Democratic Socialist Movement offers condolences to the Mandela family and all those in South Africa and...
Features
Anniversary: Fourth International launched 75 years ago
3 September, 1938, marked the start of the Fourth International’s founding conference
socialistworld.net
Marxists in the 1930s were compelled to draw far-reaching political conclusions following huge defeats of the working class. For example, i...
Features
Film Review: Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln
The massive social struggles around the civil war bring up important issues that are played out in the continuing battles today to end racial, class, sexual and gender exploitation under U.S. and global capitalism.
Patrick Ayers and Eljeer Haw...
Features
World Perspectives: Age of austerity preparing seismic convulsions
We are living through one of the most dramatic periods in history
Document adopted by the December 2012 meeting of the International Executive Committee of the CWIIntroduction
We are living through one of the most dramatic periods in history....
China
China: The fall of Bo Xilai
For the first time in two decades an open power struggle erupts within China’s one-party state
Features
International Women’s Day
March 8th – a day to remember the struggles and the victories of women workers
Clare Doyle, CWI
For more than a century, March 8th has been the day to commemorate and celebrate the fight of working class and revolutionary women for a better dea...
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ISA: Addressing questions on a safeguarding case
ISA International Executive statement
ISA’s International Executive would like to address questions regarding ISA’s handling of serious accusations ag...
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