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[ September 23, 2023 ] Hundreds of journalists strike at National World newspapers Britain
[ September 22, 2023 ] Capitalist crisis consumes universities Britain
[ September 21, 2023 ] Car workers strike in US-wide dispute US
[ September 20, 2023 ] Conservatives make big gains in Norway’s regional and local elections Norway
[ September 19, 2023 ] Austria: Indefinite strike at Ardo points the way to an autumn of discontent Austria

Britain

Hundreds of journalists strike at National World newspapers

September 23, 2023 Anton McCabe, National Union of Journalists NEC member, personal capacity

Over 330 National Union of Journalists (NUJ) members in over 100 National World newspapers and websites across Britain and Northern Ireland struck on 18 September. [...]
Britain

Capitalist crisis consumes universities

September 22, 2023 Editorial from The Socialist newspaper

It seems simpler to list the things which work in Britain in 2023 than to list what’s broken. Public services are literally crumbling. Prices everywhere [...]
US

Car workers strike in US-wide dispute

September 21, 2023 Independent Socialist Group, US

On 15 September, members of the Independent Socialist Group (ISG) joined with United Auto Workers (UAW) members and other supporters at a practice picket in [...]
Norway

Conservatives make big gains in Norway’s regional and local elections

September 20, 2023 Robin Nilsen, CWI Norway

The local council and regional election results of the 10th of September 2023 in the nationwide elections in Norway was a clear defeat for the [...]
Austria

Austria: Indefinite strike at Ardo points the way to an autumn of discontent

September 19, 2023 Laura Rafetseder, Sozialistische Offensive (CWI in Austria)

An indefinite strike at Ardo, a food processing and packaging plant, in Groß-Enzersdorf, near Vienna, is entering its second week. A warning strike was held [...]
Germany

Germany: National congress of ver.di union to deepen ‘social partnership’

September 19, 2023 Angelika Teweleit, Berlin

From 17 to 23 September, about 1,000 delegates at the ver.di national congress will discuss the future direction of the trade union. Ver.di is a [...]

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 […]