World economic recovery that only looks good on paper
Thursday, September 04 @ 19:49:50 CDT

The Guardian's Larry Elliott deconstructs the optimism of the capitalist media re perspectives for the world economy

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WA: Safety strike set to close building sites
Thursday, September 04 @ 18:24:43 CDT

By Jerry Pratley
BUILDING sites in Perth are to grind to a halt as unionists strike over safety.

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Left Party in Sweden turns to the right in Euro campaign
Wednesday, September 03 @ 19:08:03 CDT

The "No" campaign has a clear lead with less than two weeks to go to the referendum on the euro in Sweden 14 September. Two-thirds of the members of the trade union federation, LO, are supporting a "No" vote, according to opinion polls. The support for the No campaign is high despite the profile of the official "No" leadership, as this article on the Left Party (former Communist Party), shows. The article is published in this week’s issue of Offensiv, the weekly paper of Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (CWI Sweden).

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Why Nader Should Run in 2004
Wednesday, September 03 @ 19:00:10 CDT

By Ty Moore

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Factory Farms: The Bloody Truth About Our Meat
Wednesday, September 03 @ 18:58:35 CDT

By Erika Blechinger and Ben Arenburg

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A socialist world is possible
Wednesday, September 03 @ 18:56:40 CDT

Arguments for socialism by Ramy Khalil, US CWI section Socialist Alternative

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Can the US Bring Peace to Liberia?
Wednesday, September 03 @ 18:54:35 CDT

By Greg Beiter, US CWI section Socialist Alternative

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Growing Anger of US Soldiers in Iraq
Wednesday, September 03 @ 18:52:42 CDT

By Bob Commike, Vietnam Veteran, in US CWI Socialist Alternative newspaper, Justice, September-October 2003

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Wage Labour and Capital and Value, Price and Profit both by Karl Marx
Wednesday, September 03 @ 03:35:49 CDT

How many times has a boss told a shop steward or union rep that if they ask for too big a wage increase then prices will go up? Former Labour Prime Minister Harold Wilson claimed in the 1960s that: "One man's wage increase is another man's price rise". This is still a common cry from bosses world-wide.
When the national minimum wage was brought in, Britain's bosses again argued that wage rises cause inflation. If the minimum wage was at too high a level, they said, workers would be priced out of jobs, prices would rise and economic meltdown could follow.
Some trade union leaders stressed that a minimum wage had been introduced in other countries - sometimes at a higher level - without this economic Armageddon happening. This was a correct argument but it did not really explain why wage increases do not cause inflation.
If workers want the best arguments to expose the bosses and show that they can demand larger pay rises than are offered without causing economic chaos, then look no further than these two pamphlets from Karl Marx written in the 19th century.

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South Korea: The Tiger Strikes
Wednesday, September 03 @ 03:30:10 CDT

South Korea: The Tiger Strikes was commissioned by the Committee for a Workers' International to highlight the significance for the workers' movement worldwide of the dramatic events of December 1996 and January/February 1997. The magnificent general strike exploded onto the front pages of the international press just as a new year was beginning. It rudely awoke the world to the realities of the class struggle being fought out in the land once known as the 'Hermit Kingdom'.

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Shut Down the IMF and World Bank!
Wednesday, September 03 @ 03:28:40 CDT

Global Capitalism and the Socialist Alternative! By Philip Locker, US Socialist Alternative (CWI section)

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Poverty and Neo-Colonialism in Nigeria
Wednesday, September 03 @ 03:26:37 CDT

Recent articles on Nigeria from CWI, including Democratic Socialist Movement in Nigeria

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Nigeria: Civil Rule in Danger
Wednesday, September 03 @ 03:23:53 CDT

2002 pamphlet from CWI section in Nigeria, Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM)

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Lenin's last struggle
Tuesday, September 02 @ 22:54:06 CDT

Alan Woods explains the desperate last battle of Lenin who, as he was dying, warned of Stalin and bureaucratic degeneration. Includes key quotes from Lenin's Testament

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Indonesia: An unfinished Revolution
Tuesday, September 02 @ 22:45:03 CDT

Analysis of Revolution of 1998 and a short history of the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) and the counter-revolution of 1965. Essential read to understand Indonesia today

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Che Guevara: Symbol of Struggle
Tuesday, September 02 @ 22:39:36 CDT

By Tony Saunois

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A History of the Committee for a Workers' International (CWI)
Tuesday, September 02 @ 22:36:38 CDT

By Peter Taaffe

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Crisis in the Middle East
Tuesday, September 02 @ 22:33:22 CDT

Written in the 1980s by CWI's Daniel Hugo, this pamphlet outlines a socialist history/background to the Israel/Palestinian conflict.

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What is the Solution to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict?
Tuesday, September 02 @ 22:30:34 CDT

By Philip Locker of the US CWI section, Socialist Alternative

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The April Thesis
Tuesday, September 02 @ 22:26:39 CDT

Probably Lenin's most important work. In April 1917 Lenin returned to Russia and turned around his Bolshevik Party's line from one of loyal opposition to the Provisional Government to one of fighting for power

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The Rhythm of Struggle
Tuesday, September 02 @ 22:11:13 CDT

Leon Trotsky explains the complex relationship between economic boom/slump and the level of political struggle. As vital a point to understand today as it ever was.

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Socialism Made Easy
Tuesday, September 02 @ 22:07:54 CDT

Irish Revolutionary James Connolly's classic text.

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Rosa Luxemburg's Reform or Revolution
Tuesday, September 02 @ 22:05:50 CDT

The republishing of Social Reform or Revolution is most opportune at a time when the current leadership of the workers' movement internationally have shifted sharply to the right. Rosa Luxemburg's classic should be read by all young socialists

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Socialism in the 21st Century:The WayForward for Anti-Capitalism By Hannah Se
Tuesday, September 02 @ 22:02:18 CDT

This book by British SP's Hannah Sell argues the case for socialism. Why are you and other readers interested in such a book? Why are growing numbers of people considering becoming socialists?
It is clearly not because socialism is widely publicised. None of the major political parties are socialist, socialism does not feature on the national curriculum in schools, and the TV is not packed with programs arguing in favor of it. And yet, it clearly isn't. Ideas traditionally associated with the left are increasingly popular.
In a Mori poll in 2001, for example, 72% of people supported the re-nationalisation of the railway system, despite none of the major political parties arguing for it.

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Chile: Después del Paro del 13 de Agosto ¿Cuál es la Propuesta?
Monday, September 01 @ 19:10:43 CDT

1 September 2003
Chile
Después del Paro del 13 de Agosto ¿Cuál es la Propuesta?
Desde 1997, año del comienzo de la crisis asiática y teniendo a ésta como excusa, los trabajadores hemos recibido constantes ataques a nuestros niveles de vida, que habían visto una cierta mejoría en los primeros años de la Concertación.
Celso Calfullan, Socialismo Revolucionario, CWI/CIT- Chile

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"Howard's not invincible" - bourgeois journalist fret over government crisis
Sunday, August 31 @ 19:07:40 CDT

Behind the high polls, the Federal government is directionless with growing anger from ordinary people on Medicare and higher education. Only the uselessness of the Labor Opposition is keeping Howard ahead. This article from Murdoch's Australian (1st September 2003) shows the fear of the more far-sighted bourgeois journalists of a rapid collapse in support for the government.

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Canada: Police attack protest of poor
Saturday, August 30 @ 06:34:57 CDT

Toronto has had a turbulent summer, with crises ranging from SARS to the failure of the power grid. The season has been especially difficult for the city's poor who have had to cope with these added difficulties on top of eight years of attacks by the provincial Tory government.

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Bourgeois analysis of North Korea talks
Saturday, August 30 @ 04:38:21 CDT

Greg Sheridan of the Australian newspaper (30th August 2003) analyses the failed six country talks on North Korea. He clearly outlines the cynicism of China's approach to their 'comrades' in Pyongyang,

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Hanson in Jail Survey
Wednesday, August 27 @ 04:10:43 CDT

Should socialists support the jailing of Pauline Hanson? Some say let her rot in hell. Others say she merely broke an undemocratic law that restricts the rights of small parties and that the major parties do much worse. Others are unsure. What's your opinion? Vote on our main home page poll...

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European Union: Economic and Monetary Union in practice
Wednesday, August 27 @ 03:54:17 CDT

On the 14 September, there will be a referendum in Sweden on joining the EMU and the Euro. The following is an editorial from Marxismen Idag (Marxism Today), the journal of Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (CWI Sweden). It deals with the real EMU - in stark contrast to the picture of a prosperous and stable euro-zone given by the ‘Yes’ campaign. Since the article was written in June, the French president, Chirac, has openly asked for a softening of the EMU demands on budget deficits.

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