Speaker - Michael Roberts author of The Long Depression: Marxism and the Global Crisis of Capitalism.The major capitalist economies seem now to be recovering fast from the catastrophic slump into which they were plunged by the COVID pandemic. Will this revival continue? Or is it just a short-term bounce back, as businesses re-open and vaccinations roll out? Meanwhile the countries of Latin … [Read more...]
Disability – a socialist perspective
One billion people around the world live with some form of disability, making up around 15% of the global population. The total number is rising fast, due both to chronic health conditions such as diabetes, cardiovascular diseases and mental illness, and to wars, civil wars and environmental catastrophes – all manifestations in different ways of the devastating crisis of capitalism, which together … [Read more...]
France: The Deepening Crisis
Since 2016 (the year of the massive movement against the employment laws of Francois Holland’s minister of employment, El Khomry), there has been no let-up in the struggle. There has been furious resistance by the workers against attempts by the Holland and Macron governments to push ahead with neo-liberal reforms, destroying living standards and employment rights.After a lull at the start of … [Read more...]
The Senegal Uprising: An Eye-Witness Report
Long considered the most stable country in West Africa, Senegal is the latest country to join the worldwide wave of protest. The nationwide uprising was sparked off by the arrest of the opposition politician Ousmane Sonko on rape charges, which he alleges are a ruse to block his candidacy for presidential elections. But what lies behind the uprising is growing youth unemployment, poverty, … [Read more...]
Perspectives for the USA
Introduced by John Reimann (Oakland Socialist) and Tia Kurtisnger-Edison (Kentucky Alliance)The USA has entered a period of turmoil and instability.What lies behind the downfall of the Trump presidency? Was January’s storming of the Capitol building “Trumpism’s” last gasp? What are the prospects for a Republican resurgence?The new Democratic administration has launched a massive economic rescue … [Read more...]
In Memory of Rosa Luxemburg
The Workers' International Network celebrated the 150th anniversary of the birth of Rosa Luxemburg (5th March 1871) with a special meeting.While still a teenager, Rosa organised a general strike in her native Poland. Having migrated to Germany in 1897, she moved the historic resolutions at the Socialist International’s 1907 Stuttgart Congress and 1912 Basel conference pledging resistance to the … [Read more...]
The Uprising in India
India is the scene today of a gigantic mass uprising, with up to 250 million workers staging recurrent general strikes and 300,000 farmers occupying New Delhi in a six-month siege. Olivier (on behalf of Jacques Chastaing) and Umar Shahid explain the background to these unprecedented events. Jacques Chastaing, a French activist in close contact with the farmers’ uprising in … [Read more...]
The Russian Protest Movement
THE RUSSIAN PROTEST MOVEMENT - Hanna Danilovich speaks about the protests that have erupted where tens of thousands have defied police in street demonstrations throughout Russia. The Putin regime has used deadly poisons and brutal repression to try to nullify opponents of the state. How stable is its rule? Is this the beginning of its downfall? What is the programme of Navalny? Hear … [Read more...]
WIN Conference: Session 3
The third session of the WIN conference moved on to a review of the experience of our comrades around the world, with dynamic reports from North and South America, Europe, Africa and Asia, and a sober discussion of WIN's strategic goals. … [Read more...]
WIN Conference: Session 2
The second session of WIN’s conference was held on 16th January, with participants logged on from countries encompassing the globe from the USA to the Philippines and from Sweden to South Africa (twenty countries in total). The conference continued the discussion from the previous session on the document 2020 VISION: World Perspectives and on a new Perspectives Supplement on the Pandemic. The … [Read more...]