Various groups protested on España Boulevard, Philippines, Friday, May 1, to call for increased pay, jobs, and protections for workers' rights. (Maria Tan, ABS-CBN News) See the videos below - https://www.facebook.com/reel/1286739739620771 AND https://www.facebook.com/reel/895537416838350 … [Read more...]
AN EMPIRE IN FREEFALL
A WIN DISCUSSION 26TH APRIL 2026. SEE IT HERE. Edging closer to the brink of world war, Trump has openly threatened to wipe out an entire civilisation. The USA and Israel have devastated Iran and Lebanon, sent oil prices soaring, precipitated rampant inflation and wrecked the world economy. World trade is reeling from yoyo-ing tariffs, entire countries have been threatened with annexation, one … [Read more...]
THE FRENCH MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS
WIN Discussion March 2026. See it HERE. The recent municipal elections have confirmed a sharp polarisation in French politics. The far-right National Rally won 3,019 mayoral and city council seats compared to just 827 in 2020. As incumbents, the Socialist Party retained power in France’s four largest cities (Paris, Marseille, Lyon and Lille). And despite a generalised witch-hunting campaign … [Read more...]
ESCALATION IN THE MIDDLE EAST
WIN meeting March 2026. See it HERE. The US and its attack dog Israel announced an immediate assault on Iran on 28th February, despite or probably because negotiations between the US and Iran were ongoing. As widely predicted this war quickly spread to much of the Middle East dragging in countries which had opposed the assault on Iran and exposing the involvement of many of the other … [Read more...]
EDUCATION IN A SOCIALIST SOCIETY
WIN meeting March 2026, see it HERE. According to UNESCO, there are 272 million children and young people globally (disproportionately girls) who get no schooling at all. And even in the more developed countries, under capitalism what do young people learn in their more than ten years of compulsory schooling? If it really gave them an equal chance of achieving a happy and successful life, then … [Read more...]
WELCOME TO INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY
WIN meeting March 2026. See it HERE. See Audrey White's clip HERE. As we celebrate International Women’s Day, we see a continued struggle for equal rights, pay parity, resistance to the threat of war and state terror, and socialism. We are living through an era of repression, genocide and war and both as workers in struggle and as custodians of family welfare, women face especially intense … [Read more...]
YOUR PARTY: A NEW BEGINNING? OR A FAILED OPPORTUNITY?
A WIN discussion March 2026. See it HERE. The result of the first elections to the Central Executive Committee of Britain’s “YOUR PARTY” would have been declared by the time of this WIN meeting. When the first steps towards creating this new party of the left were announced last July, within days 800,000 people had signed up to register their interest. Since then, months of public rivalry, … [Read more...]
THE ASIAN YOUTH UPRISING: AN UPDATE FROM NEPAL
Win discussion February 2026. See it HERE. A wave of revolt is shaking Asia. Last week’s 300 million-strong general strike in India - the biggest workers’ mobilisation in world history - follows the aragalaya in Sri Lanka in 2022, the July revolution in Bangladesh in 2024, and a series of massive youth uprisings in just the last few months in Indonesia, Nepal, the Philippines and Iran. The … [Read more...]
From one Munich to another –
But what security are they talking about? by Yorgos Mitralias At first glance, everything separates the Munich Conference of 1938 from the Munich Security Conference of 2026. The former saw Czechoslovakia sacrificed on the altar of Hitler's appeasement policy by the “great democracies” of Europe, which allowed this “appeased” Hitler to unleash the Second World War by invading Poland a year … [Read more...]
BEHIND THE IRAN/US CONFLICT
A WIN discussion February 2025. See it HERE. The recent mass protests in Iran have been brutally suppressed by the regime with more than ten thousand killed. How has the Iranian economy been reduced to such low levels in a country with so many natural resources and a relatively educated workforce? The answer is two-fold… First it is the result of the failures of successive corrupt regimes, … [Read more...]