Category: News

  • Socialism More Popular Than Capitalism Among Youth and African Americans

    Despite near universal demonization of socialist ideas in the corporate media and political establishment, according to a new Pew Research Center Poll half of young people aged 18-29 view socialism positively while only 43 percent react negatively to the term. In the same age group, only 46 percent have positive views of capitalism, while 47 percent view…

  • Capitalist Globalization: India in a death trap

    Down with Neo-liberalism which is impoverishing the peasantry and the urban poor! The following article is written by Kaveri Rajaram Indira, an activist and a close supporter of New Socialist Alternative (CWI-India). The article appeared in the Jan-Feb 2012 edition of Dudiyora Horaata (Workers’ Struggle). On the 1st of January 2012, Ameena Banu, a one…

  • Nation is not its inanimate borders! Nation is its People!!

    Two decades of neo-liberalism has pushed the majority of poor to the brink of ill-health. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s blabber which said “ Malnutrition is national shame” is like a chronic patient in deep coma suddenly waking up to express extreme horror about his own weakness. Just recently in the month of December 2011, the…

  • Condemnable arrest of anti-POSCO movement’s mass leader Com. Abhay Sahoo

    Statement of the New Socialist Alternative (CWI-India) It is a matter of great concern that Odisha government in order to push forward the POSCO steel project at Dhinkia and Gobindpur near Paradip port has once again arrested the leader of the anti-POSCO resistance movement – POSCO Pratirod Sangram Samithi (PPSS) and CPI leader, Abhay Sahoo.…

  • SAVE SHARMILA ! SAVE DEMOCRACY! REPEAL AFSPA!

    JOIN PROTEST ON 26-11-2-11 On November 4, 2011, Manipuri poet Irom Sharmila Chanu’s hunger fast completed 11 years. She has not touched water or food during this period and she has been force-fed through nose and has been charged for attempt to commit suicide. No man or woman in the history of any struggle anywhere…

  • Seattle Socialist Alternative in Action: Occupy Seattle Wins a Victory

    The following report is by a member of the Seattle branch of our sister organization in the US, Socialist Alternative (CWI – USA). The report follows on the movement based in Seattle – Occupy Seattle (OS), that has drawn inspiration from the Occupy Wall Street movement which is drawing support and the spread of similar…

  • Break the Power of Wall Street – The Case for Public Ownership of the Banks

    For decades, Wall Street has been having things its own way. It demanded bailouts to save its system, paid its elite huge bonuses, and demanded that we pay with cuts, layoffs and foreclosures for the crisis they caused. The 1% have used their power, their vast financial resources, and their political influence for their own…

  • 15 October: The day of inter-continental resistance

    This leaflet published by the Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI) on the the eve of 15th October, day of International protests and actions involving all the major protest movements across the globe from  ‘Occupy Wall Street’ in New York to ‘Indignad@s’ & ‘Enraged’ in Spain and Greece to the streets of Santiago and Cairo,…

  • Abolish the capital punishment: activists (Report from The Hindu)

    The following is a news report that appeared in The Hindu (2nd October, 2011) on the meeting organized by the New Socialist Alternative (CWI – India) on the issue of Death Penalty. Editor A group of citizens, civil society activists and students got together at the SCM House here on Saturday to deliberate on a…

  • US: Brutal police crackdown on protestors

    Wall street occupation continues and spreads As we publish this article here on socialistworld.net the occupation movement has begun to spread all over the US. For example occupations are due to begin in Boston today and Seattle tomorrow. Many local unions have also begun to pledge support to the movement. In the last few days…