A Workers’ International Network meeting - June 2023 THE BRITISH STRIKE WAVE - YouTube The British working class is currently suffering the sharpest fall in living standards in living memory. Coming on top of more than a decade of ruthless cuts, the price of gas, electricity, staple foods and mortgages is soaring; food banks are collapsing; children are going hungry; and millions of … [Read more...]
Archives for June 2023
ALI WAZIR RE-ARRESTED
The abduction of Ali Wazir, a prominent leader and elected member of Parliament from Waziristan, has sparked outrage and condemnation from workers organizations and activists around the world. Wazir was abducted on his way to attend the budget session at Parliament by unknown individuals in Meran Shah. This illegal act comes after release of Wazir as he had been previously imprisoned on fake and … [Read more...]
PAKISTAN IN CRISIS
A WIN Discussion, June 2023 PAKISTAN IN CRISIS - YouTube A WIN discussion June 2023. Pakistan is in the grip of its deepest ever political and economic crisis. Carved by British imperialism out of India on artificial communal lines, within little more than two decades it had split into two separate fragments, and its remaining provinces have been torn ever since by constant internal … [Read more...]
Labour’s Coming Split by Roger Silverman
Supplement to ON THE BRINK Was Labour ever a socialist party? Can the left ever again win the leadership? How can a new mass workers’ party be built? WIN presents this new analysis as a supplement to our latest edition of ON THE BRINK, published March 2023. See below the link to download your copy! … [Read more...]
Jeremy Corbyn – 40 Years as MP for Islington North – Statement by Roger Silverman
Yesterday I had the honour of speaking on behalf of the Socialist Labour Network at the event marking Jeremy Corbyn's 40 years as MP for Islington North. Here's the text of my speech... * * * * Greetings from the Socialist Labour Network and from Newham Socialist Labour. Congratulations, Jeremy, on your lifelong struggle for the cause of socialism – all the more so for the forty years you fought … [Read more...]
A TURNING POINT FOR NORTHERN IRELAND?
A TURNING POINT FOR NORTHERN IRELAND? - YouTube A WIN Discussion, June 2023. Recent elections in Northern Ireland saw Sinn Fein emerge as the largest party at local council level. This follows last year’s Assembly elections, in which it won the most seats, entitling Sinn Fein’s Vice-President Michelle O’Neill to the First Minister position. However, she has not yet taken up her post, because … [Read more...]
THE LESSONS OF GREECE
A Workers’ International Network meeting, June 2023 THE LESSONS OF GREECE - YouTube Between 2010 and 2015, Greece was the scene of the greatest wave of mass protest witnessed in Europe for decades. Hundreds of thousands were marching on the streets, organising mass strikes and workplace occupations lasting for weeks and in some cases months, massing in the public spaces, hoisting … [Read more...]