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Sri Lanka: When socialist pioneers fought malaria and colonialism

March 29, 2020 Srinath Pereira, United Socialist Party (CWI in Sri Lanka)

In late 1934 and early 1935, parts of Sri Lanka (then Ceylon) were plagued by an epidemic of malaria. This followed huge floods in 1934. The British colonial rulers and the ‘Ceylonese Council of Ministers’ […]

Coronavirus: State intervention shows what is possible

March 29, 2020 Sarah Sachs-Eldridge, from The Socialist (weekly newspaper of the Socialist Party - CWI England & Wales)

All that seemed solid now seems to be melting. This is the effect of the coronavirus crisis. The governing Tories in the UK cut – but now they spend. They privatised – but now they […]