How can working-class people fight the effects of the worst economic crisis since the 1930s? Mass lay-offs are already a feature in the major capitalist countries and around the world. The bosses and their governments are on the offensive to ...

The 2008 meeting of the International Executive Committee (IEC) of the Committee for a Workers’ International is taking place this week in Belgium. Representatives from 28 countries in Europe, Asia, Africa, Latin America and the USA are at this important ...

The Pakistani economy is facing its worst crisis in a decade, with massive trade and budget deficits, plunging foreign currency reserves and investments, a severe energy crisis, super inflation and capital flight. According to senior economist Qaisar Bengali, “we are ...

Video interview with Peter Taaffe, General Secretary of the Socialist Party, cwi in England and Wales.

By any standards, Monday 29 September was a bad day for world capitalism. News that the US Congress had voted down the $700 billion bail out, despite Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson having pleaded for it literally “on bended knee”, sent ...

”The markets have gone crazy” – this comment was heard on stock trading floors around the world after two days of total mayhem. ”The financial system is in terrible shape, and no one knows where this will end,” a financial ...