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    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...

    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...

    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...

    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...

    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...

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    Bryan Koulouris, Socialist Alternative (ISA in the United States) (This article was first published on 3 January 2025) Around the globe, incumbent p...

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