Alistair Tice, Socialist Party regional secretary, Yorkshire
"I would suggest as a memorial to Mrs Thatcher that instead of the usual headstone or statue, a dance floor should be erected over her grave". This was proposed by a writer to the Observ...
Launch surpassed all expectations
CWI reporters, South Africa
This report from our sister organisation in South Africa (Democratic Socialist Movement) was first published on socialistworld.net on 21 March 2013.
Over 500 Tshwane workers, min...
Anti-racist campaign needed against corrupt ruling elites and capitalism
Chris Dite and CWI Taiwan reporters
The Taiwanese government is whipping up anti-Filipino sentiment in the wake of the fatal shooting of a Taiwanese fisherman on May 9 by ...
Public housing residents in Melbourne, Australia, have won a big victory against the Liberal State Government.
Chris Dite, an activist of the Socialist Party (CWI Australia) and a candidate in last year's elections to Yarra City Council in Melbou...
Billionaires’ fortunes have increased by almost 17 percent in a year while the poor get poorer
chinaworker.info
Mao Zedong’s granddaughter has climbed into the ranks of China’s richest people. Kong Dongmei, granddaughter of the ‘great helmsman’...
Millions of Venezuelan workers, the poor and youth will mourn the death of Venezuelan president, Hugo Chavez
Tony Saunois, CWI Secretary
In an era when the gap between establishment politicians, who defend big business and the super-rich, and t...
Union representatives declare a “half success” with a pay rise of 9.8 percent – but important issues are unresolved
Vincent Kolo, chinaworker.info
The strike by 500 Hong Kong Dockworkers at the world’s third largest container port is over afte...
‘Defend pensions! Stop corruption!’
Chris Dite in Taipei
Around 20,000 Taiwanese workers used this year’s May Day to rally against austerity and cuts to the pension. Workers weaved through the central Taipei city streets today , despite the col...
Li Ka-shing owns 13 percent of the world’s port capacity and much more besides…
Dikang, Socialist Action (CWI supporters in Hong Kong)
In Hong Kong it is the tycoons like Li Ka-shing that rule. The inspiring month-long port strike has illuminat...
The process by which British imperialism exited Hong Kong, its last major colony, came again into focus following the recent death of former British leader Margaret Thatcher
Dave Hundorf, chinaworker.info
Thatcher, revered as a heroine by capit...
Bryan Koulouris, Socialist Alternative (ISA in the United States)
(This article was first published on 3 January 2025)
Around the globe, incumbent p...
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