What the 1% will do to defend their class interests
Reviewed by Tony Saunois, CWI
This powerful, gripping and incisive book was first published on 13 May 2014. Glenn Greenwald and, of course, his star whistle-blower, Edward Snowden, have done a...
Eljeer Hawkins, SocialistAlternative/USA
“ ...Somewhere in the dream we had an epiphany
Now we right the wrongs in history
No one can win the war individually
It takes the wisdom of the elders and young people's energy…” – Common and John Legen...
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From Socialist Magazine, issue 30
The issue of funding for political parties and NGOs has become a big issue. During the ‘Umbrella Revo...
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...
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...
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...
‘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
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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...
This new bubble underscores the extremely parasitic nature of capitalism and the need for a socialist alternative.
Marcus Kollbrunner, Liberdade, Soc...
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