A Workers’ International Network meeting July 2022 SRI LANKA: WHERE NOW? A Workers’ International Network meeting July 2022 - YouTube The recent spectacular uprising in Sri Lanka has succeeded in its specific initial goal. The hated incumbent president Gotabaya Rajapaksa has at last been chased out of office … but only to be replaced by his equally reviled hand-picked accomplice Ranil … [Read more...]
Archives for July 2022
LESSONS OF THE BRITISH GENERAL STRIKE 1926
LESSONS OF THE BRITISH GENERAL STRIKE 1926 - A Workers’ International Network meeting - JULY 2022 - YouTube Hear from John Byrne, Former GEC Manchester Openshaw shop steward and member of AUEW District Committee, and former Manchester city councillor. After more than a decade of harsh cuts, facing a soaring inflation rate of 11% and an immediate threat to the food and fuel needs … [Read more...]
SRI LANKA CALL TO ACTION!
ACTION PROGRAMME - SOCIALIST PEOPLE’S FORUM OF SRI LANKA On 9th July the workers, peasants, students and millions of oppressed peoples of Sri Lanka showed our united power. The corrupt political elite and their capitalist paymasters trembled. The dictator Rajapaksa fled for his life. A brighter future was there for the taking. Now the politicians are desperately clinging on to their … [Read more...]
REVOLUTION IN SRI LANKA! JULY 2022
REVOLUTION IN SRI LANKA! WIN DISCUSSION JULY 2022 - YouTube After weeks of huge street protests, culminating in the mass occupation of the presidential palace, Sri Lanka's hated president Gotabaya Rajapaksa and his murderous and kleptocratic dynasty have at last been overthrown. They have left the country literally bankrupt, lacking the necessary foreign exchange to import basic supplies of … [Read more...]
FRANCE: AFTER THE ELECTIONS
(1) FRANCE: AFTER THE ELECTIONS - YouTube A Workers' International Network Meeting July 2022 The French parliamentary elections represent a further blow to the authority of Macron, re-elected president two months ago by a reduced margin against the far-right candidate Marine Le Pen. In the first round of voting, the left alliance NUPES came close to beating Macron's Ensemble, and in the … [Read more...]
Britain: Workers Fight Back – By Roger Silverman
June 2022 A new mood is sweeping Britain. The magnificent TUC march last week marked the re-entry of the working class back to the forefront of British history. A wave of protest has begun, with strikes are of railways, airport ground staff, communications workers, nurses, GPs, even barristers… Britain is ruled by a regime which drunkenly staggers from one hollow theatrical gesture to the … [Read more...]