WIN Youtube discussion meeting, June 2022 BRITAIN: SLIDING INTO DISASTER? A Workers’ International Network meeting June 2022 - YouTube Against a grim international background of pandemic, war and looming recession, Britain today is facing its sharpest crisis in living memory: economic catastrophe; galloping inflation; a plunging pound; a looming trade war; and zero growth – the … [Read more...]
Archives for June 2022
BUILDING THE INTERNATIONAL – Part 1: Marx and the First International – with Ed Bober
BUILDING THE INTERNATIONAL - YouTube A Workers’ International Network meeting Sunday 19th June As part of our weekly programme of discussion meetings, over the next few months WIN will be running an occasional series on the history of the workers’ internationals. These meetings are not intended to be dry academic seminars but dynamic collective inquiries into the lessons of our common … [Read more...]
SRI LANKA IN TURMOIL
with P.D. Saranapala a veteran of the 1980 general strike, leader of the Socialist Party of Sri Lanka, secretary of the Government United Management Assistance Union, and treasurer of the Socialist People’s Forum, along with other local activists. Two months after WIN’s last meeting on the current catastrophe in Sri Lanka, there has been absolutely no respite. The last remaining foreign … [Read more...]
WHERE IS AMERICA GOING?
A Workers’ International Network meeting, Sunday 12th June When Trotsky passed through the USA en route back to Russia in 1917, he celebrated his “peep into the foundry in which the fate of man is to be forged”. America was already the most dynamic capitalist power. Then, following two world wars which had devastated Europe, for most of the twentieth century and beyond the USA was far and away … [Read more...]