‘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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
Workers’ strikes and new local rebellions use the slogan “Learn from Wukan”
Vincent Kolo and Zhang Shujie, chinaworker.info
Wukan is the fishing village in southern China’s Guangdong province that achieved worldwide fame as a symbol of mass res...
International struggle can end dictatorship of the markets
Joint declaration by CWI sections in Greece, Portugal, Ireland, Italy and Spain
In 2012, the markets and capitalist governments which serve them, have more misery in store. This will me...
On the brink of a new downturn
Lynn Walsh, editor of Socialism Today, monthly magazine of the Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)
“2012 will not be a walk in the park”, warns Christine Lagarde, head of the IMF. The world capitalist econom...
Is this newfound hope in the Democratic Party justified? Not by a long shot
Teddy Shibabaw, Socialist Alternative (ISA in the United States)
(This art...
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