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Britain: Ruling class stunned by election revolt

Organise, strike, resist, to fight for Corbyn's policies Theresa May's failed election gamble is a nightmare for the capitalist class in Britain Hannah Sell, Socialist Party (CWI in England & Wales) Seven weeks ago most of Britain's elit...

China’s Ivanka Trump sweatshops – labour activists arrested

Is the Chinese regime’s relationship with the US ruling family a factor behind these arrests?  Vincent Kolo, chinaworker.info Three Chinese activists have been detained and face criminal charges after an undercover investigation of working cond...

Comey scandal continues: Trump regime faces deepening crisis

Trump’s firing of FBI Director James Comey last week has led to a spiraling political crisis in Washington Tom Crean, Socialist Alternative The sharp divisions in the political establishment and within the state apparatus have become even s...

Burma: Disillusionment grows with Aung San Suu Kyi’s government

In November 2015 the pro-democracy NLD (National League for Democracy) won a crushing majority in national elections held in Burma (Myanmar) Interview with a Burmese student activist by Vincent Kolo The NLD, led by Aung San Suu Kyi, the Nobel l...

Turkey: Referendum “Yes” result a Pyrrhic victory for Erdogan

Murat Karin, Sosyalist Alternatif (CWI in Turkey) On Sunday 16 April, Turkey went through the most controversial and questionable referendum in its history. The constitutional amendments which were to give President Erdogan dictatorial powers, inc...

Protests against Jokowi’s Hong Kong visit

  On Apr 30, Indonesian president Joko Widodo made a 2-day visit to Hong Kong Socialist Action reporters On Apr 30, Indonesian president Joko Widodo made a 2-day visit to Hong Kong, mainly to meet with the capitalists like Hong Kong...

Netherlands: Election result a colossal defeat for austerity government

Oppose Wilders and the ‘mainstream’ right – Build a mass workers’ party that struggles for socialism.  The most important feature of the national elections in the Netherlands is the colossal defeat for the outgoing austerity coalition government o...

Trump’s warmongering inflames global tensions

Shockwaves from Middle East to Korea in wake of Trump’s resort to ‘missile diplomacy’ Editorial from Socialist《社會主義者》magazine issue 42 Donald Trump’s cruise missile attack on a Syrian airbase on 6 April, during a round of “beautiful chocolate...

Second referendum on Scottish independence?

Scottish National Party fires the starting gun but offers no solutions to austerity Philip Stott, Socialist Party Scotland (CWI) The Scottish parliament (with limited 'autonomous' powers) will vote next week in favour of triggering a second ind...

Fukushima catastrophe six years on

World’s second most dangerous nuclear disaster David Hundorf, chinaworker.info It is six years since the Fukushima nuclear disaster. On 11 March 2011, ‘311’, a devastating earthquake and series of tsunamis destroyed the cooling systems at the F...

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Tibet-Nepal Mudslide: The shocking cost of climate destruction, imperialism and dictatorship

More than one thousand dead in Nepal – no credible death toll yet reported on the Chinese side chinaworker.info reporters The horror of the Hi...

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