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Sean Figg discusses the latest developments in the war on Iran with Bob Labi, from the CWI’s International Secretariat. This episode focuses on the question of programme. What attitude should socialists take to towards the Iranian regime in the midst of an imperialist war of aggression against it? How can working class activists and socialist support the struggles of the Iranian masses? What programme can build a global anti-war movement? And why is socialism at the heart of the struggle against imperialism and war? Focussing on Iran, future episodes will deal with the question of fighting imperialism and its wars from within the imperialist countries. Visit the CWI website for more Marxist analysis at https://www.socialisworld.net. Support the work of the CWI by donating via PayPal via this link: https://www.paypal.com/donate?token=nSIBdu0YHHoaeO4kL4Vc7OwunRZfuUPBqykg6SoeTMkcZOxef9iX-AGklaZywUL1d1_GiNnCXZXNDAAr Contact us by emailing cwi@worldsoc.co.uk
The War on Iran - What does socialist anti-imperialism look like?
Discussion with a socialist from the USA. Jeff Booth (Independent Socialist Group (ISG). Tony Saunois (Committee for a Workers' International)
Trump’s Carnage: War on Iran and the Middle East — The Global Consequences
Bob Labi, from the CWI’s International Secretariat, discuss the Lagos government’s war on the poor with Hassan Taiwo Soweto, member of the Democratic Socialist Movement and spokesperson of #EndBadGovernance Movement Lagos. Recently, this has included a forced gentrification process leading to a demolition spree of markets, houses and communities. At a recent protest, activists were met with brutal police repression. Soweto describes his experiences at the sharp end of this brutality and the wider political context of the war on Lagos’s working class and poor communities. Visit the CWI website for more Marxist analysis at https://www.socialisworld.net Support the work of the CWI by donating via PayPal via this link: https://www.paypal.com/donate?token=nSIBdu0YHHoaeO4kL4Vc7OwunRZfuUPBqykg6SoeTMkcZOxef9iX-AGklaZywUL1d1_GiNnCXZXNDAAr Contact us by emailing cwi@worldsoc.co.uk
The Continuing War on Nigeria’s Poor
Bob Labi and Sean Figg, from the Committee for a Workers International’s International Secretariat, discuss the protest movement that has rocked the Iranian regime over the past month, the attitude of the regional ruling classes and the imperialist powers to the movement, what it would take to bring down the regime, and, crucially what should replace it to realise the aspirations of the Iranian working class and poor. • Visit the CWI website for more Marxist analysis at https://www.socialisworld.net. • Support the work of the CWI by donating via PayPal via this link: https://www.paypal.com/donate?token=nSIBdu0YHHoaeO4kL4Vc7OwunRZfuUPBqykg6SoeTMkcZOxef9iX-AGklaZywUL1d1_GiNnCXZXNDAAr • Contact us by emailing cwi@worldsoc.co.uk
Iran after January’s Brutal Repression
Tony Saunois, Secretary of the Committee for a Workers International, and Sean Figg, from the CWI’s International Secretariat, discuss the kidnaping of Venezuelan president Nicholas Maduro and what a new era of US imperialist aggression will mean in an already volatile capitalist world.
Venezuela, Trump and a New Era of Imperialist Aggression
Hannah Sell, member of the CWI International Secretariat and General Secretary of the Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales), discusses the Your Party founding conference and the struggle for a new mass workers’ party in Britain, with Sean Figg, from the CWI’s International Secretariat. Your Party’s founding conference has taken place. Unfortunately, on its formal creation, at this stage of the developing process, Your Party falls short of being the new mass workers’ party with a socialist programme that is needed. However, despite this, and despite the attempts of the capitalist media to cast the event in the worst possible light, many of those leaving Your Party’s founding conference in Liverpool on 30 November will do so feeling more positive than they will have done on arrival.
Corbyn, Sultana, Your Party and the Struggle for Working Class Political Representation in Britain
Tony Saunois, CWI Secretary, discusses his review of Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s book, “Now the People – Revolution in the 21st Century”, with Sean Figg, from the CWI’s International Secretariat. Mélenchon and the movement he leads, La France Insoumise (Frace Unbowed), are well positioned to play a critical role in how the crisis of French capitalism develops in the next period. To advance the interests of the French working class in the crisis the issues of program, organisation and strategy are crucial. In this podcast Tony and Sean look at Mélenchon’s position on these crucial questions. • Visit the CWI website for more Marxist analysis at https://www.socialisworld.net. • Read the review of Mélenchon’s book, “Now the People – Revolution in the 21st Century” at https://www.socialistworld.net/2025/10/23/jean-luc-melenchons-now-the-people-revolution-in-the-21st-century-character-programme-and-methods-of-the-new-radical-left/ • Support the work of the CWI by donating via PayPal. • Contact us by emailing cwi@worldsoc.co.uk
Where next for Mélenchon and La France Insoumise?
In August protestors took to the streets in towns and cities across Nigeria in anger at the deepening social and economic crises gripping the country. , felt by ordinary Nigerians as a worsening cost of living crisis. But the state, led by the government of President Bola Tinubu, cracked down hard. Hundreds of activists have been detained without charge, such as Daniel Akande in Abuja. Others, including CWI member Adaramoye Michael Lenin, and Mosiu Sodiq, also in Abuja, have been charged with treason, which carries the death penalty. The Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC), and its president Joe Ajaero, have also been subject to a state campaign of harassment. In response socialists and trade unionists worldwide are mounting an international solidarity campaign. In this podcast, a radio interview carried on the South African channel PowerFM, Weizmann Hamilton, general secretary of the Marxist Workers Party and a member of the Committee for a Workers International’s International Executive Committee, discusses the situation in Nigeria and the Nigerian Solidarity Campaign. - Visit the CWI website for more Marxist analysis at www.socialistworld.net - Download Nigeria Solidarity Campaign material: https://linktr.ee/nigeriansolidarityuk - Donate to the Nigeria Solidarity Campaign via CrowdFunder: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/cdwr?exp=exp-pledge&expv=B - Contact us by emailing cwi@worldsoc.co.uk
Nigeria Erupts - Build the Solidarity Campaign
REJECT GOVERNMENT INTIMIDATION SUPPORT ACTION TO DEFEND LIVING STANDARDS UPDATE: president of Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) arrested at airport on way to address British Trades Union Congress (TUC). UPDATE: further hike in petrol price fuelling further price increases on basic necessities. APPEAL FROM YOUTH RIGHTS CAMPAIGN (YRC) At a time when Nigeria is in deep crisis, currently, fuel becoming unavailable throughout the country, the government of Bola Tinubu is pressing serious charges, including ‘Treason’ and ‘Terrorism’, against organisers and activists of the #EndBadGovernance protests. These were organised at the beginning of August by a broad front of different organisations opposing neo-liberal policies and government corruption. The president of the Nigeria Labour Congress, the country’s largest trade union federation, has faced police questioning over both “criminal conspiracy, terrorism financing, treasonable felony, subversion, and cybercrime” and “criminal intimidation, malicious damage to property” etc. Amnesty International has summed-up the process as “… another round of the government’s unrelenting efforts to punish protesters and demonize protests.” “Some of the charges to be filed against the protesters, ranging from treason, which carries the death penalty, to allegations of a ‘plan to destabilize Nigeria,’ show how far Nigerian authorities can go in manipulating the criminal justice system to silence critical voices. These are blatantly trumped-up charges that must be immediately withdrawn.” “These attempts by President Bola Tinubu’s government to charge those who protested against widespread poverty and rampant corruption with treason is beyond absurd and baseless.” “We condemn these sham trials even before they begin and call for an end to these endless, bizarre attempts to deprive people of the right to peaceful protest. What is going to happen to these protesters — who took to the streets last month seeking good governance — is a disguised exercise solely aimed at punishing dissenters.” With Nigeria in deep economic, social and political crisis the Tinubu government is determined to suppress opposition and protests, hence its campaign of intimidation. The regime knows it is weak, last year less than 10% of Nigeria’s 93.5 million registered voters voted for Tinubu. Already suffering from stagnant living standards, insurgencies in different parts of the country and deep-rooted corruption, Nigeria was plunged into deeper crisis when, last year, President Tinubu, newly-elected, launched an unprecedented neo-liberal programme that has undermined living standards. The annual rate of food price inflation is 39.5% while fuel has risen by 460% since Tinubu came to office in May last year. There is mass unemployment and underemployment. The economy is stagnant. Millions survive on a day to day basis. Official figures show that 133 million people live in multidimensional poverty. But billions of dollars of oil and gas revenues have disappeared over recent decades. The International Trade Union Confederation-Africa (ITUC) explained that when there have been signs of opposition there has been a “heavy-handed response by the government to legitimate and peaceful assembly and protests”. The British TUC has spoken of the Nigerian government seeking “to crush the protests and that the police actions against the NLC are an “intimidation of trade unions”. The case of Adaramoye Michael (Lenin), the National Coordinator of the Youth Rights Campaign (YRC), a member of the Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM) and one of the key organisers of the #EndBadGovernance protests in Abuja, the federal capital, shows how this regime is operating. He was arrested at 2am on 5 August at home and held incommunicado with no legal or family visits. Then 17 days later, he, along with 123 others, was remanded in detention for a further sixty days at a secret court hearing at which neither defendants or defence lawyers were present. Michael and his co-defendants were to be charged with “criminal conspiracy, terrorism financing, treasonable felony, cyberstalking and cyberbullying”. Only on 29 August, over three weeks after he was seized, was Micheal able to see a lawyer and then on the following weekend was told he would be formally charged in court on 2 September. There have already been international protests. Many in Nigeria have condemned the arrests too. Protests need to be stepped-up to help Michael and others. Protests need to demand that the serious, yet ridiculous, court charges against the #EndBadGovernance protest activists are dropped and those detained are immediately released. It is necessary to support those fighting to defend living standards and democratic rights in Nigeria. The workers’ movement and socialists have an internationalist responsibility to stand in solidarity and support their class brothers and sisters in Nigeria.
NIGERIA | Defend Democratic Rights – High Commission Protest, London, UK
The CWI’s Summer School took place in Berlin, Germany, between 27 July and 1 August. CWI members attended from Austria, England & Wales, France, Germany, Ireland, Scotland and the United States. In this video, Sascha Staničić, national spokesperson of Sol – Sozialistische Organisation Solidarität (CWI in Germany) – and a member of the CWI’s International Executive Committee, opens the plenary – The Class Struggle in Europe. A full report of the Summer School can be read on socialistworld.net. EDITORS NOTE: Sascha’s speech was translated consecutively into French and German. Pauses to allow the translators to do their work have been edited out.
SUMMER SCHOOL 2024 | #2 The Class Struggle in Europe
The CWI’s Summer School took place in Berlin, Germany, between 27 July and 1 August. CWI members attended from Austria, England & Wales, France, Germany, Ireland, Scotland and the United States. In this video, Tony Saunois, CWI secretary, opens the first plenary – ‘The Death Agony of Capitalism’ - Prospects for Socialism. A full report of the Summer School can be read on socialistworld.net. EDITORS NOTE: Tony’s speech was translated consecutively into French and German. Pauses to allow the translators to do their work have been edited out.
SUMMER SCHOOL 2024 | #1 ‘The Death Agony of Capitalism’ - Prospects for Socialism
Between 6 June and 9 June 2024, 450 million people will be eligible to vote in elections to the European Parliament. In the five years since the last elections major changes in the world situation has taken place – thee pandemic, cost of living crisis and the wars in Ukraine and Gaza. This has been reflected in the deepening crisis of the established political parties and the growth of right-wing populist and racist forces. But there has also been a significant upturn in the working class and youth struggle in a number of key European countries. In this video CWI members in Austria, France, Germany and Ireland explain the situation in their countries and the approach that CWI sections are taking toward these elections.
EURO ELECTIONS 2024 | FIGHT FOR A SOCIALIST EUROPE
The African National Congress (ANC) – the ruling party in South Africa since 1994 is in danger of losing its majority in the next national elections on 29 May. Sheri Hamilton, a member of the executive committee of the Marxist Workers Party (the CWI in South Africa) gives a Marxist analysis of the class struggle in this crucial country, looks at the possible outcomes of the election and what it will mean. This video was recorded as an introduction to a debate organised by Gauche Révolutionnaire (Revolutionary Left – the CWI in France) at the Lutte Ouvrière festival on Saturday, May 18, 2024. More info: Revolutionary Left website: https://www.gaucherevolutionnaire.fr/ CWI website: https://www.socialistworld.net/ MWP website: https://marxistworkersparty.org.za/ Erratum: the correct figure cited for the cancer budget allocated for outsourcing to private care is R787 milion.
What alternative to the ANC for workers and youth? Interview with Sheri Hamilton
The Committee for a Workers International is celebrating its fiftieth anniversary. The organisation was founded in London, UK, over the weekend of 20-21 April 1974. Over the past half century the CWI has championed a principled Marxist method and revolutionary socialist program amongst the working class, the youth and the poor masses in numerous countries. The CWI has been involved in, and led, numerous campaigns and mass struggles, developing our ideas and program through several major changes in world capitalism. Today, as ever, the CWI is amongst the foremost champions of the world socialist revolution as humanity’s only alternative to the horrors of capitalism. To celebrate the CWI’s fiftieth anniversary we have commissioned a series of videos by veterans and pioneers of the CWI, both internationally and in their respective countries, to share their experiences. In this video, the last in the series, Chiara Stenger, from Sozialistische Organisation Solidarität – Sol, the CWI in Germany, about her experiences, and what the CWI means for a new generation. Contact us: cwi@worldsoc.co.uk Visit the CWI website: socialistworld.net Join the CWI here: Donate to the CWI here: www.socialistworld.net/donate/ Become a Patreon supporter: patreon.com/CWI
CWI-50 #12 | Forward with a New Generation – Chiara Stenger, CWI in Germany
The Committee for a Workers International is celebrating its fiftieth anniversary. The organisation was founded in London, UK, over the weekend of 20-21 April 1974. Over the past half century the CWI has championed a principled Marxist method and revolutionary socialist program amongst the working class, the youth and the poor masses in numerous countries. The CWI has been involved in, and led, numerous campaigns and mass struggles, developing our ideas and program through several major changes in world capitalism. Today, as ever, the CWI is amongst the foremost champions of the world socialist revolution as humanity’s only alternative to the horrors of capitalism. To celebrate the CWI’s fiftieth anniversary we have commissioned a series of videos by veterans and pioneers of the CWI, both internationally and in their respective countries, to share their experiences. In this video, Philip Stott, discusses with Jim Halfpenny, from Socialist Party Scotland, the CWI in Scotland, about his experiences. Contact us: cwi@worldsoc.co.uk Visit the CWI website: socialistworld.net Join the CWI here: Donate to the CWI here: www.socialistworld.net/donate/ Become a Patreon supporter: patreon.com/CWI
CWI-50 #11 | The CWI in Scotland – Jim Halfpenny
The Committee for a Workers International is celebrating its fiftieth anniversary. The organisation was founded in London, UK, over the weekend of 20-21 April 1974. Over the past half century the CWI has championed a principled Marxist method and revolutionary socialist program amongst the working class, the youth and the poor masses in numerous countries. The CWI has been involved in, and led, numerous campaigns and mass struggles, developing our ideas and program through several major changes in world capitalism. Today, as ever, the CWI is amongst the foremost champions of the world socialist revolution as humanity’s only alternative to the horrors of capitalism. To celebrate the CWI’s fiftieth anniversary we have commissioned a series of videos by veterans and pioneers of the CWI, both internationally and in their respective countries, to share their experiences. In this video, Leïla Mesaoudi, from Gauche Révolutionnaire, the CWI in France, describes her experiences. Contact us: cwi@worldsoc.co.uk Visit the CWI website: socialistworld.net Join the CWI here: Donate to the CWI here: www.socialistworld.net/donate/ Become a Patreon supporter: patreon.com/CWI
CWI-50 #10 | The CWI in France – Leïla Mesaoudi
The Committee for a Workers International is celebrating its fiftieth anniversary. The organisation was founded in London, UK, over the weekend of 20-21 April 1974. Over the past half century the CWI has championed a principled Marxist method and revolutionary socialist program amongst the working class, the youth and the poor masses in numerous countries. The CWI has been involved in, and led, numerous campaigns and mass struggles, developing our ideas and program through several major changes in world capitalism. Today, as ever, the CWI is amongst the foremost champions of the world socialist revolution as humanity’s only alternative to the horrors of capitalism. To celebrate the CWI’s fiftieth anniversary we have commissioned a series of videos by veterans and pioneers of the CWI, both internationally and in their respective countries, to share their experiences. In this video, Lanre Arogundade, from the Democratic Socialist Movement, the CWI in Nigeria, describes his experiences. Contact us: cwi@worldsoc.co.uk Visit the CWI website: socialistworld.net Join the CWI here: Donate to the CWI here: www.socialistworld.net/donate/ Become a Patreon supporter: patreon.com/CWI
CWI-50 #9 | The CWI in Nigeria – Lanre Arogundade
The Committee for a Workers International is celebrating its fiftieth anniversary. The organisation was founded in London, UK, over the weekend of 20-21 April 1974. Over the past half century the CWI has championed a principled Marxist method and revolutionary socialist program amongst the working class, the youth and the poor masses in numerous countries. The CWI has been involved in, and led, numerous campaigns and mass struggles, developing our ideas and program through several major changes in world capitalism. Today, as ever, the CWI is amongst the foremost champions of the world socialist revolution as humanity’s only alternative to the horrors of capitalism. To celebrate the CWI’s fiftieth anniversary we have commissioned a series of videos by veterans and pioneers of the CWI, both internationally and in their respective countries, to share their experiences. In this video, Jeff Booth, from the Independent Socialist Group, the CWI in the USA, describes his experiences. Contact us: cwi@worldsoc.co.uk Visit the CWI website: socialistworld.net Join the CWI here: Donate to the CWI here: www.socialistworld.net/donate/ Become a Patreon supporter: patreon.com/CWI
CWI-50 #8 | The CWI in the USA – Jeff Booth
The Committee for a Workers International is celebrating its fiftieth anniversary. The organisation was founded in London, UK, over the weekend of 20-21 April 1974. Over the past half century the CWI has championed a principled Marxist method and revolutionary socialist program amongst the working class, the youth and the poor masses in numerous countries. The CWI has been involved in, and led, numerous campaigns and mass struggles, developing our ideas and program through several major changes in world capitalism. Today, as ever, the CWI is amongst the foremost champions of the world socialist revolution as humanity’s only alternative to the horrors of capitalism. To celebrate the CWI’s fiftieth anniversary we have commissioned a series of videos by veterans and pioneers of the CWI, both internationally and in their respective countries, to share their experiences. In this video, Celso Calfullan, from Socialismo Revolucionario, the CWI in Chile, describes his experiences. Contact us: cwi@worldsoc.co.uk Visit the CWI website: socialistworld.net Join the CWI here: Donate to the CWI here: www.socialistworld.net/donate/ Become a Patreon supporter: patreon.com/CWI
CWI-50 #7 | The CWI in Chile – Celso Calfullan
The Committee for a Workers International is celebrating its fiftieth anniversary. The organisation was founded in London, UK, over the weekend of 20-21 April 1974. Over the past half century the CWI has championed a principled Marxist method and revolutionary socialist program amongst the working class, the youth and the poor masses in numerous countries. The CWI has been involved in, and led, numerous campaigns and mass struggles, developing our ideas and program through several major changes in world capitalism. Today, as ever, the CWI is amongst the foremost champions of the world socialist revolution as humanity’s only alternative to the horrors of capitalism. To celebrate the CWI’s fiftieth anniversary we have commissioned a series of videos by veterans and pioneers of the CWI, both internationally and in their respective countries, to share their experiences. In this video, Niall Mulholland, from the International Secretariat, discusses with Anton McCabe, from Militant Left, the CWI in Ireland, about his experiences. Contact us: cwi@worldsoc.co.uk Visit the CWI website: socialistworld.net Join the CWI here: Donate to the CWI here: www.socialistworld.net/donate/ Become a Patreon supporter: patreon.com/CWI
CWI-50 #6 | The CWI in Ireland – Anton McCabe
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