WIN meeting, December 2025. See it HERE. This week we devoted our meeting to a review of the life of our comrade David Hemson, an active member of the Workers’ International Network who recently died in South Africa. From the 1970s onwards David played a courageous role in resistance to the South African apartheid regime and was later jailed in Zimbabwe. In exile in Britain, together with Martin … [Read more...]
A NEW MASS PARTY OF THE LEFT
A WIN discussion November 2025. See it HERE. After years of pressure from below and months of wrangles at the top, the founding conference was finally held last weekend of Britain's new left party: "Your Party". The conference was devoted not to formulating policies or an action programme, but exclusively to constitutional and procedural matters: the party's name; its leadership structure; whether … [Read more...]
INDIA: THE NEXT EXPLOSION?
A WIN discussion November 2025. See it HERE. Protests and uprisings have been sweeping throughout South and South-East Asia in the recent period. At our WIN meetings we have heard on-the-spot reports from comrades in Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Kashmir, Indonesia, Nepal and the Philippines. But the dominant power in the region is India, ruled for almost twelve years now by a … [Read more...]
THE NEW YORK MAYORAL ELECTION
WIN discussion November 2025. See it HERE. The election of Zohran Mamdani as Mayor of New York has aroused hopes of resistance not only to the Trump regime but also to the Democratic establishment. Mamdani won a decisive majority over Andrew Cuomo, the candidate jointly supported by both the Republicans and the Democratic hierarchy, on a platform including a freeze on rents, free bus travel, … [Read more...]
THE NATURE OF THE TRUMP REGIME
A WIN discussion November 2025. See it HERE. In the ten months since Donald Trump returned to office as president of the USA, his assumption of extra-constitutional powers and suppression of democratic rights has gone way beyond expectations. Paramilitary troops have patrolled major cities, suspected migrants snatched from the streets, half a million deported, constitutional rights suspended, … [Read more...]
SOUTH AFRICA AFTER APARTHEID: THE TRADE UNIONS TODAY
This week we began our discussion by acknowledging the life and work of our South African comrade DAVID HEMSON who sadly passed away this week. See the discussion HERE. In the years of struggle by the South African working class for trade union rights and liberation, its rallying slogan was "Organise...or Starve!". Yet in today’s post-apartheid South Africa, unionised workers earning the … [Read more...]
PALESTINE AND THE GLOBAL INTIFADA
A WIN discussion October 2025. See the recording HERE. The world’s media have been busy congratulating Trump on his 20-point plan to “end the war in Gaza”... although it offers Palestinians no part in running Gaza or any other part of Palestine, and no mechanism for keeping in check the genocidal Israeli state. The plan has been signed in the context of worldwide demonstrations: the globalisation … [Read more...]
ISRAEL – A VOICE OF RESISTANCE
A WIN discussion October 2025. See the recording HERE. This week we were honoured to welcome a courageous opponent of Israel's policy of apartheid and genocide. Ofer Cassif has been a member of the Israeli Knesset (parliament) since April 2019, representing the left party Hadash (in a joint list with the Arab nationalist party Ta’al), and has been re-elected three times. He describes himself as an … [Read more...]
NEPALI YOUTH FIGHT BACK!
A WIN discussion September 2025. See it HERE. A wave of protest has swept Asia over the last three years, from the Sri Lankan Aragalaya in 2002 and the Bangladeshi July revolution in 2004 to the ongoing anti-monarchist demonstrations in Thailand and the current youth uprisings in Indonesia, Nepal and the Philippines. Last week over 40 young Indonesian visitors attended our … [Read more...]
ASIA – THE YOUTH ARE FIGHTING BACK
A WIN Zoom discussion, September 2025. Watch it HERE. A massive youth uprising has been sweeping Asia in recent years, its latest outbreaks in Indonesia and Nepal. WIN was proud to welcome activists from both countries to the first of two weekly zoom meetings, this week Indonesia, the next Nepal. Comrades from around the world were invited to meet them, hear their on-the-spot reports, and … [Read more...]