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Month: April 2020

coronavirus

Online CWI May Day rally: Capitalism is crisis – fight for a socialist world!

April 30, 2020 niall

Celebrate May Day 2020 with the Committee for a Workers’ International by taking part in this Facebook Live rally hosted by Socialist Party Scotland and the Socialist Party (England & Wales) on 1st May. Hear […]

Britain

Britain: Workers’ safety before bosses’ profits

April 30, 2020 Rob Williams, Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales) industrial organiser

In the space of one week, the trade union movement is marking two of its most important annual days – International Workers’ Memorial Day, on 28 April, and May Day on 1 May. Coming as […]

Coronavirus

Nigeria: Government locks down without adequate resources for the masses

April 29, 2020 Peluola Adewale, Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI Nigeria)

The Nigerian federal government ordered the lockdown of Lagos, Abuja and Ogun State as a measure to contain the spread of coronavirus, with effect from March 31, 2020. Lagos is the epicentre of covid-19 in […]

Coronavirus

Coronavirus: Is Sweden turning vulnerable patients away to die?

April 28, 2020 Edmund Schluessel, Sosialistinen Vaihtoehto (CWI in Finland)

On 3 April Sweden’s Radio P3’s news programme ran an article relating reports from anonymous medical workers who claimed that covid-19 patients who would have survived with intensive care were being denied it. Johan Styrud […]

Coronavirus

May Day 2020: Covid-19 pandemic exposes capitalist barbarism and the need for global socialism 

April 28, 2020 CWI May Day Statement

The Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI) extends revolutionary socialist greetings to workers and the oppressed everywhere. This year’s May Day takes place in extraordinary circumstances. The covid-19 pandemic has fully exposed, in the words […]

Chile

Chilean government’s handling of covid-19 crisis is a social, political mine-field

April 27, 2020 Socialismo Revolucionario (Revolutionary Socialism - Chilean section of the CWI) Reporters

Since October 2019, the political and social situation has changed in a very favorable sense for the Chilean working class and other parts of the population. The country saw a mass uprising which was a […]

History

Portugal’s ‘carnation revolution’ – 46 years since revolt against right wing dictatorship and capitalism

April 25, 2020 Manny Thain

Today, 25 April, marks the 46th anniversary of the ‘carnation’ Portuguese revolution. A half-century of brutal right-wing dictatorship rule was swept aside in a day. The revolution started at 12.25 am, on Thursday 25 April […]

Coronavirus

India: Fighting the curse of capitalism and coronavirus

April 24, 2020 Jagadish G Chandra, New Socialist Alternative (CWI in India)

As is the case the world over, the coronavirus crisis has exposed all the inadequacies, incapacities, and the insoluble contradictions of India’s capitalist state. In popular terminology, India is labeled a “democracy” because the world’s […]

Britain

London bus drivers’ action over covid-19 safety stops front door boarding

April 23, 2020 Interview with a London bus driver

Twenty six transport workers have died from covid-19 in London, the majority were bus drivers. Now London bus drivers have forced Transport for London (TfL) and bus companies to implement safety measures to protect them […]

Coronavirus

USA: ‘Protest-caravan’ held in solidarity with Worcester city nurses opposing furloughing during covid crisis

April 23, 2020 Evren Pallares Ó Laoghaire, member of Independent Socialist Group, and Teamsters Local 170 (personal capacity)

The US is facing an unprecedented historic crisis with the ongoing covid-19 pandemic. The economy is in ruins, as over 22 million Americans file for unemployment, which is expected to rise to 30% unemployment in […]

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    January 27, 2023
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    January 27, 2023
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    January 25, 2023
  • Authoritarian Tories block Scottish parliament’s gender recognition reform
    January 23, 2023
  • France: Two million demonstrate against Macron’s pension ‘reform’
    January 21, 2023
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