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Against corruption, wasteful spending and police brutality Dave Hundorf, chinaworker.info On Friday 13 June supporters of Socialist Action (CWI) in Hong Kong protested at the city’s Brazilian consulate. The protest was one of many around the wo...

Gains for the far right but some successes for genuine Left Peter Taaffe, general secretary of the Socialist Party (CWI in England and Wales) The long-predicted ’earthquake’ - the electoral "triumph" of the far right and their allies - took pla...

Socialist Party wins a second TD and Anti Austerity Alliance 14 councillors Danny Byrne, CWI Ireland was no exception to the general rejection of pro-austerity governments in the European elections. Three sets of elections took place on 23 May:...

180,000 attend ‘6.4’ anniversary protest • Rival protest events show political polarisation Nate Norman and Jaco Lam, Socialist Action (CWI Hong Kong) On the 25th anniversary of the Beijing massacre, Hong Kong’s candlelight vigil commemorating ...

Can the Chinese dictatorship survive another quarter of a century?  Vincent Kolo, chinaworker.info June 4th marks the 25th anniversary of the bloody massacre in Beijing that ended the mass student-led democracy movement which came close to topp...

Neither old elites nor populists have answer for workers and poor Iyan, CWI Malaysia Indonesia had legislative elections on April 9th. Final results on May 9th showed that the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDIP), which is lead by Meg...

Can a solution to the Boko Haram insurgency be found under capitalism? Hassan Taiwo Soweto, Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI Nigeria), Lagos The abduction on 14 April by Boko Haram of over 200 girls from a public secondary school in Chibok – ...

Ruth Coppinger elected to the Irish parliament Socialistworld.net and staff reporters The Socialist Party (CWI) in Ireland has won a significant success with the election of Ruth Coppinger in a by-election to the Dáil, the Irish parliament. Rut...

Interview with CWI secretary, Tony Saunois This article first appeared in sozialismus.info, the theoretical magazine of the CWI in Germany (Sozialistische Alternative). This year is the 40th anniversary of the founding of the Committee for a Wo...

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...