World News and Analysis

The New Zealand Labour Party recently announced their “Best Start” policy aimed at reducing child poverty. The policy is a payment of $60 a week for parents earning less than $150,000 per annum for the first year of their child’s life. It continues until the child turns three with a [...]

At least 6,000 Russian troops have taken up positions throughout the Crimean peninsula, formally an autonomous republic of Ukraine. The Russian regime claims it took this action following a request from the Crimean government to intervene in defence of the rights of Russian citizens. The Kremlin made clear that it [...]

The purpose of this document is to give a broad analysis of economic, political, industrial, and social processes in New Zealand today. In our view this type of analysis and understanding of processes can help make socialists better prepared for future struggles and for building fighting organisations. For more news [...]

Most Australians have never heard of the ‘Trans-Pacific Partnership’ (TPP), yet this far-reaching economic-policy agreement is a significant threat to workers and poor people’s living standards in the Asia-Pacific region. It must be opposed by working people internationally. By W. van Leeuwen, Socialist Party The TPP made headlines in December [...]

When the International Olympic Committee awarded the 2014 winter Olympics to the Russian Black Sea resort of Sochi, eyebrows were raised at the cost of $12 billion. By Rob Jones, Moscow Now it has been revealed that $50 billion has been spent, more than the cost of all previous winter [...]

The butcher of Sabra and Shatila has died. Ariel Sharon, once known as the “Father of Israeli settlements”, died after eight years in a semi-coma, following a stroke while still prime minister in January 2006. By Shahar Benhorin, CWI Israel/Palestine Many former and present capitalist leaders around the world have [...]

Peter Taaffe, General Secretary of the Socialist Party (CWI England and Wales), reviews the developments and events of 2013 and discusses further struggles in 2014 and the development of the workers’ movement. “Where is this uprising from the left? This is a crisis that began on Wall Street. It really [...]

To develop a carbon-neutral global economy, economic and political power must be taken out of the hands of the ‘noxious 90’ Predictably, empty words were all that came out of the UN-sponsored climate talks in Warsaw – the 19th climate summit since Rio 1992. Despite the latest IPCC report that [...]

Report from the session on ’world perspectives’ which took place at the recent International Executive Committee (IEC) of the CWI in Belgium. By Kevin Parslow, Socialist Party (England and Wales) “The global elite is in fear of an uprising of the masses”. This quote from the German newspaper Die Welt [...]

Below we publish an edited version of a speech given by Stephen Jolly from the Socialist Party at the recent meeting of the CWI International Executive Committee in Belgium. The recent drama over a number of uninhabited, remote, rocky outcrops in the East China Sea is just the latest example [...]