Committee for a workers' International

Building a Workers' International: Open letter to the members and former members of the IMT

The International Marxist Tendency, IMT, faces its biggest crisis since its inception. The CWI would welcome an open and honest debate amongst socialist and Marxist activists about the issues raised by these developments.

Review: A ‘dis-Service' to Leon Trotsky

Review of Trotsky, a Biography by Robert Service

New publication: Socialism and Left Unity

A critique of the Socialist Workers Party, by Peter Taaffe, General Secretary, Socialist Party, cwi in England and Wales

Theory: Problems of building new workers' parties

Lessons from history, the recent experience of Italy and Germany, and the latest developments in Brazil.

Theory: Marx and Engels - the role of the unions

Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels on the Trade Unions. Edited by Kenneth Lapides.

Theory: - Building a mass socialist international

Reply by the Peter Taaffe (cwi) to ‘The Ukraine scam, internationals and internationalism’, by John Percy (DSP, Australia)

Theory: - Is it time for new workers' parties?

Since the collapse of the Stalinist regimes in the former USSR and Eastern Europe, we have witnessed the transformation of the former mass parties of the working class, the labour and social democratic parties, into fully-fledged capitalist parties.

Theory: - Why You Should be a Socialist

Can we reign in corporate power within capitalism? Or is socialism necessary?

Theory: Islam & socialism

Between one-and-a half and two million Muslim people live in Britain today.

History: Marxists and the British Labour Party

A new section has been published in the “Marxist debates of the 1990’s” section of marxist.net , the cwi’s marxist resource website.

Theory: Lenin - the original dictator?

VLADIMIR LENIN, the main leader of the Russian revolution, made the following insightful observation in mid-1917: “During the lifetime of great revolutionaries, the oppressing classes constantly hounded them, received their theories with the most savage malice, the most furious hatred, and the most unscrupulous...

Theory: What is socialism?

Socialism in the 21st century by Hannah Sell

FOR 300 years or so of its existence, capitalism has transformed the planet over and over again. Rail, electricity, the internal combustion engine, flight, space...