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[ November 28, 2023 ] Protests follow far-right PVV’s biggest vote in Dutch elections Netherlands
[ November 27, 2023 ] Dublin riots fanned by far right – Only united workers’ movement can stop reaction and show way forward Ireland Republic
[ November 24, 2023 ] US auto workers strike: UAW workers can win more! US
[ November 23, 2023 ] Twenty-five years since the first ‘red-green’ federal government in Germany Germany
[ November 22, 2023 ] Anti-war movement in Britain puts screws on Labour politicians Britain

Netherlands

Protests follow far-right PVV’s biggest vote in Dutch elections

November 28, 2023 Annoesjka Valent

The ‘Partij Voor de Vrijheid’ (PVV) – known as the Freedom Party – won a majority of seats in the recent elections in the Netherlands. [...]
Ireland Republic

Dublin riots fanned by far right – Only united workers’ movement can stop reaction and show way forward

November 27, 2023 Mililtant Left (CWI Ireland) statement

Last Thursday’s knife attack against young children and a creche worker outside a Dublin city centre primary school horrified people across the country and beyond. [...]
US

US auto workers strike: UAW workers can win more!

November 24, 2023 Peggy Wang Massachusetts Teachers Association, Assoc. of Professional Administrators (personal capacity) Boston, MA

After six weeks of selective strikes against the “Big 3” American automakers, the United Auto Workers (UAW) leadership reached tentative agreements (TAs) with Ford, GM, [...]
Germany

Twenty-five years since the first ‘red-green’ federal government in Germany

November 23, 2023 Torsten Sting, Sol (CWI Germany)

On October 27, 1998, the first and so far only federal government consisting of the SPD and the Greens was elected. Gerhard Schröder became Chancellor, [...]
Britain

Anti-war movement in Britain puts screws on Labour politicians

November 22, 2023 Editorial of the Socialist (issue 1252)

The vast majority of people are looking on in ever-growing horror as the destruction escalates in Gaza – as IDF forces assault al-Shifa Hospital and [...]
Environment

Scotland: Low Emission Zone ‘green taxes’ won’t solve the climate crisis

November 21, 2023 Matt Dobson, Socialist Party Scotland (CWI)

June 2023 saw the roll-out of a Low Emission Zone (LEZ) in Glasgow city centre. Any vehicle entering the LEZ zone now has to meet [...]

India | A New Phase of Indian Capitalism and Challenges Ahead

September 7, 2023

The extremely right-wing Modi-led BJP government has completed nine years in power, with elections scheduled next year. At this juncture, when we draw political perspectives, we need to assess the processes that have been unfolding […]

What Causes Inflation?

September 4, 2023

“We understand better now how little we understand about inflation,”[i] commented Jerome Powell, Chair of the US Federal Reserve (the Fed), when inflation reached its highest level since the late 1970s in 2022. At the […]

The end of Golden Eras

September 1, 2023

The new lease of life that world capitalism experienced after the collapse of the Stalinist states of Russia and Eastern Europe from the late 1980s has definitively run its course. Whatever the immediate perspectives are […]