A WIN discussion May 2025. See the discussion HERE. The protests and marches that were organised by trade unions across the world on May 1st clearly showed the international nature of the organised labour movement, and the common class interests of workers in all countries. Our WIN meeting on May 11th discussed the significance of May Day and consider both the improvements in working conditions … [Read more...]
The Peasant Movement in India
A WIN discussion, April 2025. Watch the recording HERE. While the Hindu supremacist group the RSS wields enormous power amongst a large section of the Indian masses, and its political party the BJP has combined this social dominance with political rule, alongside a succession of general strikes we have seen in late 2020 and early 2021 a vast multitude of peasant masses from neighbouring … [Read more...]
CLASS STRUGGLES IN ARGENTINA
A WIN discussion March 2025. See the recording HERE. South America’s second largest economy Argentina has witnessed a kaleidoscopic variety of political upheavals: Juan Peron’s populist-bonapartist regime, a guerrilla insurgency, a brutal military dictatorship, a “dirty war” costing 30,000 lives, defeat in the Falklands war, continuing turmoil and instability, and since October 2023 the rule of … [Read more...]
THE NEW PLUTOCRACY
A WIN Discussion March 2025. Watch HERE. The return of Donald Trump to the White House has shaken the world to its foundations. It has shattered decades of diplomatic relations, precipitated a wholesale trade war, and threatened outright annexations. At home it has begun mass deportations, defied judicial rulings and shut down entire state institutions. How are we to define the new order? Are … [Read more...]
ISRAEL AND THE MIDDLE EAST – A SOCIALIST PERSPECTIVE
A WIN discussion March 2025. See the recording HERE. The fragile ceasefire reached in January between Israel and Hamas is now at breaking point. In Gaza, where tens of thousands are known to have been killed and countless more buried under the rubble, Israel has cut off all food, electricity, water and medical supplies. It has intensified its repression in the West Bank, fought with Hezbollah … [Read more...]
Bread and Roses – A Celebration of International Women’s Day
See the recording HERE. We are living through an era of almost unprecedented crisis, in terms of repression, genocide and war. And both as workers in struggle and as custodians of family welfare, women face especially intense hardship. International Women’s Day – a day founded by and for working-class women – falls on March 8th every year. The Workers’ International Network joined forces … [Read more...]
THE MIDDLE EAST: SEEKING A WORKING CLASS SOLUTION
A WIN Discussion February 2025. See the meeting HERE. The entire Middle East is in flames. To take just a few illustrations of the region’s instability… · The Assad government in Syria – a dynasty which had been in power for six decades – collapsed on December 8th after just eleven days of fighting. · Casualties of Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza … [Read more...]
THE USA: BUILDING WORKERS’ RESISTANCE
A WIN discussion February 2024. See the recording HERE. The new regime in the USA has lost no time in enforcing its brutal agenda. Donald Trump and Elon Musk are imposing steep tariffs, tearing up environmental regulations, terrorising immigrants, slashing federal programmes, threatening the jobs of millions of government employees, asserting the right of the USA to annexe whatever territories it … [Read more...]
IS THE WORLD ECONOMY ON THE BRINK?
A WIN meeting February 2025. See the recording HERE. This week we once again invited the leading Marxist economist Michael Roberts, publisher of the widely acclaimed blog The Next Recession, to speak to us on prospects for the world economy, including these vital questions… · Hundreds of billions of dollars are currently being invested in … [Read more...]
PERSPECTIVES FOR A STORMY WORLD
A WIN DISCUSSION FEBRUARY 2025. See the recording HERE. The world today is at a rare historic turning point on every front, whether in terms of the volatile economic outlook, the threat of a trade war, rapid strides in technology and artificial intelligence, the continuing bloodbath in the Middle East, the war in Ukraine, the emergence of the BRIC bloc, worldwide uprisings and … [Read more...]