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Month: August 2019

Scotland

Scotland: NHS Tayside pharmacy support workers begin all-out strike

August 20, 2019 Wayne Scott, Socialist Party Scotland (CWI),Dundee

Around 40 Unite members who work as Pharmacy Support Workers for NHS Tayside began an all-out strike yesterday. These heroic workers voted 100%, on a 90% turnout, to strike for grading and pay justice.

Argentina

Argentina: Election primaries defeat for President Macri and the effects across Latin America

August 19, 2019 Celso Calfullan, Socialismo Revolucionario (CWI Chile)

The decisive defeat of President Mauricio Macri in election primaries (PASO) in Argentina, something that virtually nobody anticipated, was a massive blow against the ruling elite. The right-wing neo-liberal, Macri, representing “Cambiemos”, was defeated by […]

Bogside residents defending their barricades against police and loyalist assault
Ireland North

Northern Ireland, August ’69: ‘Battle of the Bogside’ and British troops on the streets

August 14, 2019 Niall Mulholland, Committee for a Workers' International

Fifty years ago this month, troops were deployed on the streets of Derry and Belfast by the British Labour government of Prime Minister Harold Wilson.The capitalist establishment described it at the time as a temporary […]

Hong Kong

Hong Kong: Conflict heightens

August 11, 2019 Clare Doyle, CWI

The mass movement in Hong Kong against the local stooges of the Beijing regime appears to be an unstoppable force coming up against an immovable object. Over the past nine weeks, around 600 people have […]

Kashmir

Kashmir crisis: Attack on democratic rights must be opposed

August 6, 2019 Joint statement from New Socialist Alternative (Indian section of CWI) and CWI supporters in Pakistan.

The ruling BJP (Bharatiya Janata Party) regime in India has once again displayed its contempt and aversion to basic values of democracy. During the past week this regime had been increasing its armed forces to […]

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Britain

Britain: Socialist Party conference overwhelmingly supports refounding CWI

August 2, 2019 Hannah Sell, Socialist Party deputy general secretary, from The Socialist

On Sunday 21 July over 200 delegates at a special conference of the Socialist Party in England and Wales voted overwhelmingly, 83.2% to 16.8%, (173 – 35 with 0 abstentions), to sponsor an international conference […]

Ireland North

“Enough is enough”: 20,000 Northern Ireland civil servants strike against pay restraint

August 1, 2019 Carmel Gates, Nipsa deputy general secretary (personal capacity), from The Socialist (weekly paper of the Socialist Party, CWI England & Wales)

Up to 20,000 civil servants across Northern Ireland took strike action on 26 July. 

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