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...
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...
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...
Nothing alarmed the CCP dictatorship more than the movement of the working class aroused to action by the student-led democracy protests
Vincent Kolo, from the book Tiananmen 1989: Seven Weeks That Shook the World
The great significance of the ...
This article on the national question in Tibet and China was first published on 22 September 2005
Tibet – the “rooftop of the world” – was occupied by the People’s Liberation Army in 1950 and later incorporated into People’s Republic of China as t...
What are the political differences between anarchism and marxism, and do they still matter in the new international situation?
Vincent Kolo, chinaworker.info
There are areas of common ground between anarchism and marxism – in opposing bureaucra...
Revolution never develops in a straight line
Peter Taaffe, Socialist Party general secretary, London
Between February and October 1917 there were many sharp turns in the situation in Russia. In April, the government coalition of 'socialists' ...
The national question is, without doubt, one of the great issues facing socialists and marxists today.
Peter Hadden, Socialist Party (CWI Ireland)
Lenin described Tzarist Russia as a prison house of nationalities – 57% of its peoples were non-R...
Taiwan was first incorporated into China by the Qing dynasty (1644-1911) in 1683. It first became a province of China in 1885, ten years before the Qing surrendered it to the Japanese in the Sino-Japanese war.
By Laurence CoatesHan Chinese settle...
Keep mobilizing for a strong contract!
Chris Gray, Socialist Alternative (ISA in the United States)
(This article was first published on 4 October 2...
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