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Month: January 2020

Ireland Republic

Ireland: Working class protesters mobilise against far right election candidate

January 31, 2020 Carah Daniel, CWI Ireland

Monday evening, 27 January, saw a vibrant, local protest take place in Balbriggan, north county Dublin, against far-right general election candidate for the area, Gemma O’Doherty, and the public meeting she was hosting. O’Doherty’s decision […]

Britain

‘Brexit Day’ – British capitalism enters stormy waters

January 31, 2020 Robin Clapp, Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)

Tory Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, elated by his election victory and refreshed from his Caribbean holiday, now faces, in the words of a newspaper journalist, a long-postponed “rendezvous with reality”. Having secured a predictable majority […]

Britain

Britain: No ‘blank cheque’ for Labour leadership candidates

January 30, 2020 Editorial from The Socialist (weekly newspaper of the Socialist Party CWI England & Wales)

The nomination stage of the Labour leadership contest is in full swing, but without the enthusiasm within and beyond the party’s rank and file that marked the surge behind Jeremy Corbyn when he stood for […]

Health

Coronavirus: capitalism limits response to viral outbreaks

January 29, 2020 Jon Dale Secretary, Unite union Nottinghamshire Health Branch (from The Socialist - weekly paper of the Socialist Party, CWI England & Wales)

For the third time in 20 years, a new virus has spread from animals to humans. It began on 29 December in Wuhan, a Chinese city of eleven million, probably crossing to humans at a […]

Ireland Republic

Low wages, unending inequality, housing and health crisis; backdrop of misery to Ireland’s election

January 28, 2020 Ciaran McKenna, CWI Ireland

The general election in Ireland, on 8 February, is a chance for the working class to give their verdict on four years of misrule by this big business government – Fine Gael supported by Fianna […]

Norway

Norway: Far right walks out of coalition government

January 28, 2020 Robin Nilsen, CWI Norway

The Progress Party (FrP) – a right-wing populist party – has pulled out of Norway’s “blue-green” minority government of four parties. On the NRK national television news programme on Monday, 20 January, the FrP announced […]

Britain

Britain: Police issue ‘counter-terror guidance’ against Socialist Party and dozens of other campaigners

January 27, 2020 Martin Powell-Davies, Teacher and Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales) national committee member

The Guardian newspaper has revealed that the logos of over eighty different left-wing, environmental and animal rights groups – including that of the Socialist Party – have been included in a guidance document circulated by […]

Iraq

Iraq – Imperialism’s brutal legacy

January 26, 2020 Niall Mulholland, CWI

The start of 2020 saw the assassination of the top Iranian general Qasem Suleimani by US forces, recklessly destabilising the Middle East region. In the immediate aftermath of Suleimani’s assassination, millions poured onto the streets […]

Taiwan

Taiwan: Landslide victory for pro-independence party

January 25, 2020 Carl Simmons, Kokusai Rentai (CWI in Japan)

On 11 January, the incumbent president of Taiwan, Tsai Ing-wen of the pro-independence Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), was re-elected with a landslide. She won 57.1% of the popular vote – the highest figure ever recorded […]

France

“Real, deep anger” – Interview with a French striker

January 24, 2020 Interview with Virginie Pregny, striking teacher and a member of Gauche Révolutionnaire (CWI France)

The strike movement against the French government’s wholesale attack on pensions has gone on for almost two months. Many transport workers downed tools for 45 continuous days, joined by some other sectors on the unions’ […]

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