May 9, 2025
More

    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...

    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...

    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: The fall of Bo Xilai

    For the first time in two decades an open power struggle erupts within China’s one-party state

    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...

    China: The Wukan uprising and its lessons

    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...

    Europe: No to the debt! No to the austerity! No to the blackmail!

    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...

    World economy: The year of all risks

    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...

    World and European perspectives: A system in crisis

    Capitalist chaos – class struggle sharpens CWI - a socialist analysis Below, we publish a document on world and European perspectives which will be proposed by the CWI’s International Secretariat to a meeting of the International Executive Comm...

    Book Review: Prisoner of the State by Zhao Ziyang

    Unofficial memoirs of top Chinese leader fill important gaps in our knowledge Reviewed by Vincent Kolo, chinaworker.info The circumstances under which ‘Prisoner of the State’ was written are quite dramatic, perhaps more so than the book itself...

    Latest News

    Understanding China’s authoritarian state capitalism

    This is an edited version of a speech given by Peter Chan of chinaworker.info to the ISA's Virtual Marxist University in July 2020, which is now publ...

    Join us and organize to back fight. For a socialist world