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...
Socialist Action refuses money from business or government agencies – our support comes from ordinary people
From Socialist Magazine, issue 30
The issue of funding for political parties and NGOs has become a big issue. During the ‘Umbrella Revo...
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...
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...
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...
