The ANC victory, WASP and the EFF.
By Weizman Hamilton, General Secretary of WASP
The African National Congress has been re-elected with 62% of the vote. This represents a marginal decline with the shedding of a few hundred thousand votes i...
Hong Kong and Indonesian governments should also stand trial over migrant workers’ rights
Socialist Action reporters in Hong Kong
The return of Erwiana Sulistyaningsih to Hong Kong is a major event for the city’s 330,000 migrant domestic worker...
Tensions between powers worsen
Niall Mulholland, CWI
Crimea’s 16 March referendum saw an overwhelming majority vote in favour of joining Russia. According to the claimed official result, 96.77% voted ‘for’ integration and turnout was 83.1%. Ten...
Thursday 18th September is referendum day in Scotland. Discussions are taking place in workplaces, colleges, schools and communities all across the country. The run-up to September will be dominated by debate on how to vote and what might an independ...
Long live working class internationalism in action! An example for other sectors.
Danny Byrne, CWI
Against the international backdrop, in which bosses and governments inflict a ‘shock and awe’ agenda of attack after attack on working people acr...
Main pro-Union (anti-independence) parties step up campaign ahead of independence referendum
Philip Stott, Socialist Party Scotland (CWI)
The growing conflict over Scottish independence has dramatically escalated following the coordinated inter...
Massive environmental destruction the true cost of nuclear power
Dikang, chinaworker.info
The nuclear disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi plant in March 2011 was the second worst nuclear disaster ever, after the 1986 Chernobyl disaster in Ukraine...
Fight for a living wage met by brutal government crackdown
David Hundorf, chinaworker.info
When we march on International Women’s Day, 2014, special recognition should be accorded the women garment workers of Cambodia who staged a magnificent n...
Campaigning for WASP socialist alternative at May polls
By Liv Shange, Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI South Africa)
As South African President Jacob Zuma, last Friday, announced that the country’s next general elections will be held on May ...
But pro-western, right wing regime consolidates power
Ukraine has seen the dramatic overthrow of corrupt and authoritarian president Viktor Yanukovich. But the lack of a working class alternative allowed reactionary forces, with western imperialis...
