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In late January, more than 50 representatives from miners’ strike committees, community groups, trade unions and left political organisations met at the invitation of the Democratic Socialist Movement (the sister organisation of the Socialist Party in South Africa). The agenda of the meeting was the development of the new Workers [...]

Document adopted by the December 2012 meeting of the International Executive Committee of the CWI We are living through one of the most dramatic periods in history. The Greek workers, followed by the Portuguese and Spanish, are in the vanguard of the movement against capitalist barbarity, endless austerity. No one [...]

Report from the 2012 CWI Summer School This week, up to 400 people are attending the Committee for a Workers International (CWI) annual Summer School in Belgium, from all around Europe, including Russia, and also with visitors from Kazakhstan, Brazil, Canada, Quebec, Australia, Sri Lanka, Nigeria, Lebanon and elsewhere. In [...]

Below, we publish a document on world and European perspectives which will be proposed by the CWI’s International Secretariat to a meeting of the European Bureau in late April. Following discussion and amendments at the meeting, the final version of the document will be published on socialistworld.net after the meeting. [...]

CWI’s Zhang Shujie speaks out at hearing in Sweden’s parliament “I was warned that I could get several years in prison for ‘contact with a banned organisation’ and for ‘crimes related to national security’ ”. Zhang Shujie, a socialist from China, explained his ordeal at a hearing at the Swedish [...]

By CWI reporters The 12th National Congress of the United Socialist Party (CWI Sri Lanka) took place in Colombo on October 8 & 9 in extremely difficult circumstances. Since the end of the war in 2009 President Mahinda Rajapaksa has moved towards creating a dictatorial regime. Repression has in many [...]

The world economy and inter-imperialist relations This week, CWI supporters from over 30 countries are attending a CWI Summer School in Belgium. As well as comrades from across western and eastern Europe and Russia, visitors are attending from North America, Latin America, Nigeria, Malaysia, Hong Kong and the Middle East. [...]

Interview with Socialist Party MEP Paul Murphy Paul Murphy, Socialist Party MEP for Dublin will shortly attempt to sail to Gaza as part of the ‘Freedom Flotilla II’ to try to deliver humanitarian aid to people in the Gaza strip. Last year’s ‘Freedom Flotilla I’ was brutally attacked in international [...]

Workers’ struggle around the globe Fighting to end capitalism and its crisis, the Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI) sends warm May Day greetings to workers, youth and the oppressed around the globe. May Day, the traditional day for celebrating the international struggle of the workers’ movement, this year takes [...]

Thesis of the European bureau of the CWI At the beginning of April, leading members of the CWI from Europe, as well as from Pakistan and Israel, met to discuss developments internationally, and in Europe in particular. The following thesis was discussed there and adjusted according to the discussion. The [...]