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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 ...

Capitalism and imperialism were driven out, but political power rested in the hands of a Stalinist communist party This article by Vincent Kolo was first published on chinaworker.info in October 2009, on the 60th anniversary of the Chinese Re...

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...

The failure of Taiwan’s pro-LGBT referendum does not represent the end of the marriage equality and LGBT movement – we need to rebuild a fighting LGBT movement against further attacks Luka, International Socialist Forward (CWI in Taiwan) T...

Anger as government drops Leung and Cheng prosecutions Zuo Ren, Socialist Action (CWI in Hong Kong) Marchers in Hong Kong on 1 January will protest official corruption and the refusal of the Hong Kong government to pursue legal action agai...

The whereabouts of 24-year-old Jasic activist are still unknown Luo Ding, chinaworker.info Yue Xin, who graduated from Peking University last year, has been under secret detention since she was arrested on August 24, along with a...

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 ...