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Month: May 2020

History

A new world order: global reconstruction after World War Two

May 16, 2020 Robin Clapp, from The Socialist (weekly paper of the Socialist Party - CWI England & Wales)

During the Covid-19 crisis, many commentators have talked about a ‘new Bretton Woods’ and the need for post-crisis international capitalist cooperation and reconstruction. War and global crises led to the reconstruction of global relations after […]

Coronavirus

New era of capitalist turmoil and social upheaval opens – only a socialist alternative offers a way forward

May 15, 2020 Statement by the International Secretariat of the CWI

The corona crisis has entered a new phase, in terms of health, the economy and geopolitical relations. It has confirmed the main trends outlined in previous statements produced by the CWI. A new era of […]

Britain

Pandemic shortages caused by capitalist market – socialist planning is the alternative

May 14, 2020 Iain Dalton Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales) national committee

With planning, personal protective equipment (PPE), ventilators, and other key products should have been easy to provide. Yet as each day goes by, the scale of the government’s unpreparedness for the Covid-19 crisis becomes more […]

Britain

Britain: Tories put profit before lives

May 13, 2020 Editorial from The Socialist, weekly paper of the Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)

“Meet the new messaging: same as the old messaging. Only even vaguer and more confusing. Not so much 15 minutes of TV fame as uncomfortably like watching someone have a breakdown in front of you. […]

Coronavirus

Desperate economic situation leads to renewed protests across Lebanon

May 12, 2020 Iain Dalton, Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)

After a pause for a little over a month with the covid-19 lockdown, new protests have erupted in Lebanon, as the situation for workers has become desperate. Unemployment has reached 30%, while hyperinflation is worsening, […]

Coronavirus

Scotland: Lockdown exit exposing Tory and Scottish National Party failures

May 11, 2020 Socialist Party Scotland executive committee

Like many ruling administrations internationally, the Scottish National Party (SNP)-led Scottish government has seen an increase in approval ratings and support during the Covid-19 pandemic. A recent YouGov poll found 74% of Scots held the […]

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Turkey

İEK Türkiye platformu [Platform of the CWI in Turkey]

May 10, 2020 İEK Türkiye – Devrimci Sosyalist Sol [CWI Turkey Platform - Turkish language version]

Koronavirüs ile birlikte dünya ekonomisi 2007/8 finansal krizinden daha da derin bir krize girerken, Türkiye’deki egemen sınıf Erdoğan’ın önderliğinde krizin faturasını işçilere çıkarıyor. Hükümet, çark dönsün patronlar kar yapmaya devam etsin diye işçiler fabrikalarda, madenlerde, […]

Slider

Turkey: Erdogan’s rule, capitalist crisis and working-class political representation 

May 10, 2020 The platform of CWI-Turkey (İEK Türkiye – Devrimci Sosyalist Sol)

As the world economy enters a deeper crisis than that of the financial crisis of 2007/8 with the outbreak of COVID-19, the ruling class in Turkey, led by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, is already […]

China

China: Trump’s insults fuel rivalry

May 8, 2020 Clare Doyle, CWI

Donald Trump’s latest outburst against China over the origins of the coronavirus does not come as a surprise. As deaths from the disease and mass unemployment continue to mount and the US economy faces its […]

Britain

75th anniversary of ‘VE Day’: No return to the 1930s

May 8, 2020 Tom Baldwin, Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)

World War Two saw both civilians and soldiers exposed to the horrors of total war. When it was over there was a determination not to return to the horrors of poverty that had characterised the […]

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