International

What do Trump’s Trade and Tech Wars Mean for Global Capitalism? By Vincent Kolo The escalating U.S.-China conflict is nothing short of a major crisis for global capitalism. With negotiations having all but collapsed there seems to be no “exit ram...

Trump ramps up tariffs against China and rocks global stock markets Vincent Kolo, chinaworker.info President Trump’s decision to increase punitive tariffs against China from one minute past midnight on Friday, 10 May, marks a dramatic esca...

100 years ago, on March 2, 1919, 53 delegates from left and communist parties gathered at a congress in Moscow, with the goal of forming a new international By Per-Ake Westerlund, member of Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (CWI Sweden) Within six mont...

Attempt to silence Gui Minhai’s daughter exposes collusion between Swedish and Chinese authorities Dikang, chinaworker.info Sweden’s ambassador to China, Anna Lindstedt, has been recalled in a political scandal involving Chinese dissident Gui Minhai....

The situation in Venezuela has reached a critical point Izquierda Revolucionaria (CWI in Venezuela) Executive Committee The new leader of the Venezuelan right and far right, Juan Guaidó, (recently elected president of the counterrevolu...

A international planned socialist economy could realise emissions neutrality and start to reverse some of the impacts of climate change Helen Pattison, Socialist Party national committee Was there ever a starker example of the destructive ...

The world economy today is worse prepared to cope with a recession than in 2008 Per-Åke Westerlund What awaits the world economy in 2019? Capitalists and speculators around the world hold their breath after stock markets recorded thei...

Global opposition to victim blaming in Irish rape trial Socialist Party (CWI in Ireland) reporter “Does the evidence out-rule the possibility that she was attracted to the defendant and was open to meeting someone and being with someone?...

On 1 December, the “economic cold war” between China’s Xi Jinping and America’s president Trump took two important steps, but in opposite directions Dikang, chinaworker.info A very fuzzy truce, devoid of specifics, was declared by the...

How can we really defeat the right? Tom Crean, Socialist Alternative, USA The midterm elections in the U.S. represented a limited “blue wave” and an overall rejection of Trump by the electorate. Republicans were relieved their losses weren’t worse ...