Americas

Attacks will continue - Medicare for All!

Trump’s firing of FBI Director James Comey last week has led to a spiralling political crisis in Washington. The sharp divisions in the political establishment and within the state apparatus have become even sharper due to Trump’s authoritarian actions. Tens of millions who completely oppose Trump’s racist, misogynist,...

Big business and DFL establishment join forces...Don’t Let Corporate Cash Buy this Election!

No support for Trump or Assad – For workers’ unity.
Working people in the U.S. and around the world were understandably horrified by the images of children dying from Sarin gas in Idlib, Syria. It is only the latest barbaric act in a civil war that has seen 400,000 die and millions driven from their homes.

Kshama Sawant, Socialist Alternative councillor, speaks.
Sisters and Brothers, in just five weeks, Donald Trump has unleashed a series of vicious attacks on one group of Americans after another: From his Muslim ban to the ramping up of ICE raids; to his anti-trans executive order; to his budget proposal to slash vital...

Escalate the resistance toward shutdowns on March 8 and May 1! 
Donald Trump and his bigoted, billionaires-club administration have ignited a social explosion unlike any that has ever greeted an incoming US president.

Establishment deeply divided as mass resistance explodes. 
One of the most reactionary, bigoted and predatory Administrations in modern history has officially taken office. The incoming Trump Presidency, from the vicious tweets to the bizarre press conferences to the reactionary cabinet picks and executive orders,...

Reports from mass women's marches against Trump. 
Below we post the editorial from this week's issue of the Socialist, paper of the Socialist Party (CWI in England & Wales) following the mass anti-Trump demonstrations last weekend, followed by reports from some of the mass protests in the US by Socialist...

Photo gallery selection of CWI actions during weekend of mass protests. 
Donald Trump’s inauguration saw millions take to the streets of cities across the US and worldwide, on Friday 20 January, and especially on Saturday 21st. Among the biggest mass marches in US history, the dozens of international 'Women's...

Socialist council member speaks. 
Donald Trump is now Predator in Chief, and head of one of the most dangerous and right wing administrations in U.S. history.

CWI organizes protests as millions prepare to fight Trump’s agenda. 
On January 20 and 21, as Donald Trump will be marching into the White House to become the new President of the United States,  millions of people will march on the streets across the world to oppose his reactionary and pro-billionaire...

Important precedent for using city bonding authority to build homes. 
Housing activists in Seattle, organized into the Coalition to Build 1,000 Homes, scored a major victory, winning $29 million for affordable housing in the 2017-2018 budget. They pushed through a final unanimous vote in the City Council on November...