World News and Analysis

As the count continues Kshama Sawant, from the Socialist Party’s sister organisation in the US, takes the lead in the Seattle City Council elections. The results are now gaining national coverage with many pundits now betting Sawant will win. The US is seen as the home of capitalism, the world’s [...]

New Zealand is in the midst of a housing crisis. This crisis was created by decades of neo-liberal policy including the deregulation of housing consent and planning, the sell-off of state housing stock, and the failure to close tax loop-holes. These loop-holes have enabled a thin layer of people to [...]

The leadership of Syriza achieved the main goals it had set for the first congress of the now ‘unified’ party that took place in July. The component organisations of Syriza, the Coalition of the Radical Left, will now be dissolved – “within a reasonable time”, according to the congress motion [...]

The Russian government has introduced new laws banning ‘propaganda of non-traditional sexual relations’. These laws essentially outlaw any positive mention of homosexuality. The government is pretending the laws are designed to protect minors. In reality they are just a trick Putin is using to deflect criticism away from his government, [...]

By Jared Phillips  In late August David Shearer resigned as leader of the opposition New Zealand Labour Party. Labour has suffered from poor poll results since it lost the 2008 election. Since then Shearer has been the second opposition leader to resign. Much of the commentary of late has referred [...]

Editorial comment from the Socialist Party (England & Wales) Via social media, smart phones and traditional news channels a flood of bloody images, footage and reports of the unbearable suffering inflicted on the Syrian masses has been broadcast around the world. Initially in 2011, following the revolutions in Tunisia and [...]

On August 16, the anniversary of the police massacre of striking workers at the Lonmin platinum mine in Marikana, over 5000 mineworkers gathered on ‘the mountain’ where their comrades had been shot down one year earlier. Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI South Africa) reporters The Marikana massacre was the most significant [...]

Millions across the world, and especially in the Middle East, have been shocked by the killing of hundreds of mainly unarmed people in the Egyptian military’s brutal clearance of the two pro-Morsi camps in Cairo. In the days since then the military has continued its offensive. By Robert Bechert, CWI [...]

Report from the CWI Summer School The Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI), the worldwide organisation to which the Socialist Party is affiliated, held its annual Summer School in Leuven, Belgium in late July. Hundreds of CWI members from South Africa, Nigeria, Tunisia, the US, Canada, Quebec, Brazil, Venezuela, Australia, [...]

Since 2009 the National-led government has carried out a series of attacks against workers and their unions. The measures have included the introduction of probationary employment periods, the reintroduction of youth rates and drastic changes to access to sick leave. By Jared Phillips, Hamilton, New Zealand They have also made [...]