A Workers’ International Network meeting - October 2022 (1) FRENCH WORKERS FIGHT BACK - A Workers' International Meeting - October 2022 - YouTube Just months after the narrow victory at presidential and parliamentary elections of Macron and his newly renamed Renaissance party, the French working class is back on the march. It has staged a rolling wave of strikes and demonstrations in … [Read more...]
Archives for October 2022
THE BRITISH CATASTROPHE
A Workers’ International Network meeting - October 2022 British capitalism is in crisis. It has managed the lowest growth in Europe since the 2008 crash – worse than any other country except debt-plagued Greece. Its economy has already tipped into recession and is predicted to do worse over the next period than any OECD country except Russia. In the last five years, Britain’s gross … [Read more...]
The disastrous state of the Russian army, a faithful reflection of the perversions of the dying Putinism
by Yorgos Mitralias Why is Putin now "massively" bombing Ukrainian cities? Why is he sending his missiles against their infrastructures and populations? Why is he massacring civilians? Simply because he has already lost the war! Because his army can't break the resistance of the Ukrainians. Or rather, because his army is retreating, accumulating defeats, demoralized and in … [Read more...]
Sydney Silverman
with Roger Silverman As one in a series 'Lives of the Left' presented by Labour Left Alliance, Roger Silverman tells the moving story of his amazing resilient father and Labour MP Sydney Silverman. Socialist, human rights campaigner, conscientious objector, lawyer, lecturer, Sydney devoted his life to the left; among his many achievements he fought for the admission to the UK of Jewish … [Read more...]
IRAN: “NOT A PROTEST – A REVOLUTION!”
IRAN: "NOT A PROTEST – A REVOLUTION!" - A WIN Discussion, October 2022 - YouTube Here are some of the declarations made by participants in the uprising sweeping Iran this week... "This is not a protest. This is a revolution." "Injustice, poverty and lack of freedom have put everyone in an explosive condition." "The situation is intolerable. We live in poverty and misery, we … [Read more...]
A SPECIAL APPEAL – SUPPORT THE SOUTH AFRICAN DOCKERS’ STRIKE WITH RESOLUTIONS, MESSAGES OF SUPPORT AND A DONATION!
Comrades, in a historic development all docker unions in South Africa are now on strike against a miserable wage offer and in disgust with the corruption and mismanagement of state owned entities such as Transnet which has been bankrupted: now the workers are forced to make up these losses with no real wage increases. Urgent: please send personal and union resolutions and financial support to … [Read more...]
GET UP, STAND UP! UNITING THE WORKING CLASS OF SOUTHERN AFRICA
A WIN Youtube Discussion, October 2022 (3) GET UP, STAND UP! UNITING THE WORKING CLASS OF SOUTHERN AFRICA. WIN Discussion October 2022 - YouTube Following the heroic struggles of workers in Namibia, South Africa, eSwatini, Zimbabwe and elsewhere for independence, the results have been disastrous. Rather than workers’ democracy and social progress, neo-liberal policies and repression have … [Read more...]
IS LABOUR DEAD?
Roger Silverman: Is Labour Dead? - YouTube At this week's Future of the Left event in Liverpool, Roger Silverman spoke on the question "Is Labour Dead?". That might seem a hard case to argue at a time when, due to the Tory government's gross corruption and ineptitude, Labour is suddenly 33 points ahead in the polls. But, as he says here, this is certainly no party of labour. Here is his opening … [Read more...]