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26 May 2021
Mexico City subway train collapse - negligence, corruption and capitalism
An overpass carrying a subway train collapsed in Mexico City on 3 May, killing at least 26 people and injuring 80
16 January 2019
Mexico: police silence on horrific attack on CWI member
On 20 December 2018, one of our members was raped, robbed and kidnapped for more than an hour
7 November 2018
Mexico: The movement of 68 and the massacre of Tlatelolco
The movement that developed from July to December 1968 was undoubtedly one of the most intense and revolutionary chapters in the history of class struggle in Mexico.
10 October 2018
Mexico: socialists violently attacked by gangs - urgent solidarity needed
Socialists in Mexico have been attacked by fascistic gangs
29 August 2018
The ongoing capitalist crisis and the struggle for a socialist world
Each year, the Committee for a Workers' International (CWI) - the international organisation to which the Socialist Party is affiliated - hosts a summer school bringing together its members based throughout Europe and the world. Here, we carry a report written by Kevin Parslow, outlining the opening discussion on the worldwide crisis of capitalism and the development of the workers' and socialist movement internationally
11 July 2018
US: "We've had to build a huge culture of resistance"
Interview with socialist student activist in the US: In the lead up to the walkouts and protests against Trump's UK visit, Lily Branchett from Birmingham University Socialist Students interviewed Greyson Arbeider, a student activist in Ohio and member of Socialist Alternative (cothinkers of the Socialist Party in the US).
4 July 2018
Obrador's crushing victory gives hope to Mexico's poor
Mexico's presidential election on 1 July saw the left anti-establishment candidate Amlo top the poll with 54%, crushing his establishment opponents
6 December 2017
Fighting sexism, violence and capitalism - an international struggle
Interviews with socialist women from Mexico, Belgium, Ireland and Brazil
4 October 2017
Che Guevara 50 years on - revolutionary socialist and fighter
Many people identify with the legacy left by Che as a symbol of struggle, defiance, internationalism and a socialist world.
6 September 2017
Hurricane Harvey: A tragedy made far worse by capitalism
In the following article Socialist Alternative members (US co-thinkers of the Socialist Party) report on the devastating impact of Hurricane Harvey and the failure of establishment politicians and capitalism to prepare for such increasing extreme weather events
26 July 2017
Building workers' struggle and the forces of international socialism
A congress at the end of the CWI summer school - held in Barcelona - confirmed the unification of the CWI with Izquierda Revolucionaria (IR)
15 February 2017
CWI and Izquierda Revolucionaria - towards unification
We believe that the principled agreement between our organisations means there is the basis for concrete steps to be taken towards unification
18 January 2017
Mexico: Mass movement against "gasolinazo"
In recent weeks, mass protests have erupted throughout Mexico following a hike in gas and electricity prices - dubbed the "gasolinazo" - decreed by the right-wing Peņa Nieto administration, writes Towards a general strike against the Nieto government!
5 October 2016
Joint declaration by Izquierda Revolucionaria and the CWI
Following extensive discussions, a joint declaration was agreed between the CWI and Izquierda Revolucionaria. The degree of agreement means there is sufficient basis to work towards wider and deeper collaboration on a principled political basis.
6 July 2016
Mexico: Teachers continue strike despite extreme repression
Mexican police shot dead ten people, mostly striking teachers, in the southern state of Oaxaca. In response to this brutal repression teachers have blocked highways leading to fuel and other shortages.
5 August 2015
Can a future nuclear conflict be avoided?: Seventy years ago, on 6 August 1945, a single bomb dropped by a US bomber on the Japanese city of Hiroshima killed between 90,000 and 166,000 men, women and children.
26 November 2014
Anger grows over missing Mexican students
Led by the families of the 43 students who disappeared two months ago, thousands of protesters marched through Mexico City on 20 November to demand answers and action from the government
18 June 2014
Book review: The man who loved dogs
Cuban writer Leonardo Padura's masterful novel, The Man Who Loved Dogs, is about the exile years of Leon Trotsky and his assassin, Roman Mercader, writes Niall Mulholland.
Cocaine Unwrapped, a film by Rachael Seifert
9 May 2012
Film review: 'Cocaine Unwrapped'
Cocaine Unwrapped, a documentary film directed by Rachel Seifert, went on general release from 5 May, writes Paul Heron
12 January 2011
'Big Oil' cuts corners on safety to boost profits
A PRELIMINARY report by the US National Commission (set up by president Barack Obama following the fatal Deepwater horizon oil rig blow-out in the Gulf of Mexico last April) has accused three companies - BP, Transocean and Halliburton - of cutting corners over safety in order to cut costs ie to boos...
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