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Month: May 2020

US

USA: Anti-racist movement reignited by the death of George Floyd at police hands 

May 29, 2020 Jai Chavis and Nicholas Wurst, Independent Socialist Group (US)

On 25 May, police in Minneapolis choked George Floyd, an unarmed black man, who subsequently died. His death was disturbingly reminiscent of the NYPD killing of Eric Garner in 2014. A released video recorded by […]

Ireland Republic

Ireland: Instant Upright workers in battle with employers

May 29, 2020 Billy Flynn, CWI Ireland

Workers at the Instant Upright company, based in Dublin, are locked in a battle with their employer, like the Debenhams’ shop workers also in Ireland. Billy Flynn from CWI Ireland reports from the picket line: […]

Coronavirus

Iran: Covid crisis and workers’ struggles

May 28, 2020 Lukas Zöbelein, Sozialistische Organisation Solidarität (CWI Germany)

According to the Iranian regime, towards the end of May, the number of people in Iran infected with covid-19 was over 140,000, and the number of people who have died as a result of the […]

Britain

Black and Asian covid-19 deaths: An indictment of capitalist inequality

May 28, 2020 Jim Hensman Socialist Party (CWI E&W) BAME group

The figures for Covid-19 deaths in Britain, broken down by ethnicity, caused widespread shock and anger when they were released on 7 May by the Office for National Statistics (ONS). After adjusting for age, black […]

Coronavirus

Chinese state’s draconian law re-ignites Hong Kong protests

May 27, 2020 Clare Doyle, CWI

Tens of thousands of angry demonstrators poured onto the streets of Hong Kong last weekend, not only defying social-distancing regulations, but confronting police armed with tear gas, pepper spray, and water cannon. The sudden announcement […]

Coronavirus

Is Universal Basic Income a solution to insecurity and poverty?

May 25, 2020 Tessa Warrington, Leicester Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)

Few could have imagined when the Tories won the 2019 general election in Britain that five months later they would be carrying through measures of state intervention beyond the scale even of Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour […]

Obituary

Obituary: Mick Cotter (1957-2020)

May 22, 2020 Tony Saunois, CWI Secretary

It is with great sadness and regret that the Socialist Party has lost a dedicated comrade and friend of many members, Mick Cotter (21/09/1957 – 20/05/2020). Until the recent party congress, Mick had been a […]

Coronavirus

Stormont Assembly ministers fail care home workers and residents exposed to covid-19

May 21, 2020 Councillor Donal O’Cofaigh, Fermanagh and Omagh District Council, and CWI supporter

It was always unavoidable that mistakes would be made during the handling of this pandemic. No public health threat on this scale has existed in any developed economy for many decades – and given that […]

Coronavirus

Trump, coronavirus, capitalism, and the presidential race

May 20, 2020 Claire Bayler, Independent Socialist Group executive committee, and Nicholas Wurst, ISG executive committee and TCU/IAM Local 1089 (personal capacity)

Five months after Covid-19 reached the United States, the Trump administration and US capitalism have still failed to mobilise an effective response to the pandemic. Parts of the country began reopening for business on 1 […]

Coronavirus

The Spanish Flu of 1918 and how it “fanned the flames of revolt”

May 18, 2020 Book review by Hannah Sell Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales) general secretary

Laura Spinney’s book, Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World (published by Cape), on the 1918 flu pandemic, was first published in 2017. Now in the midst of a […]

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