2021 saw a prolongation of the chaos and instability of 2020: a continuing public health emergency, economic stagnation, political turmoil and social unrest. Our final meeting of the year was an open forum giving us all an opportunity for a review of these cataclysmic events and a preview of what to … [Read More...]
A STRATEGY FOR SOLIDARITY: SUPPORT IN STRUGGLE
A Strategy for Solidarity: Support in Struggle
The rise of the world economy, spluttering and uncertain in the pandemic, is creating the conditions for mass strike movements. A wave of industrial action called Striketober is hitting the USA; in South Africa the metal strike has just ended in victory; in Italy casualized workers in FEDEX are on … [Read More...]
INTERNATIONAL
What has happened in recent weeks in Afghanistan has worldwide repercussions. The rout of US and British imperialism represents a historic humiliation and a turning-point, highlighting the paradox of our times: the deepening crisis of the ruling class on the one hand, and the … [Read More...]
The Truth About Syria
More than ten years since the start of the Syrian uprising, the situation facing the mass of the population is catastrophic. More than twelve million people are in desperate need of humanitarian assistance, while more than 5.6 million Syrians are living as refugees across the Middle East. Overall … [Read More...]
About Us
ON THE BRINK is the new journal of the Workers’ International Network. WIN evolved out of an international online socialist forum, members of which had been corresponding and meeting over the years. In 2009 a draft document setting out our common consensus was published under the title Preparing for Revolution, and in 2012 another: The Future International: socialists and the movement against … Read More...