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Month: May 2020

History & Anniversaries

75th anniversary of ‘VE Day’ – War and revolution

May 8, 2020 Two republished articles by Peter Taaffe and Dave Carr

Commemorations marking the 75th anniversary of  ‘Victory in Europe’ (VE) day are taking place in Britain, and throughout the world, though many public events are cancelled or downgraded due to the covid-19 pandemic. The official […]

Coronavirus

South Africa: Fight retrenchments, outsourcing and pay cuts in the aviation industry

May 7, 2020 Marxist Workers Party (CWI South Africa) Reporters

The cost of the Covid-19 industry-wide shutdown is being passed to workers in unpaid wages, compulsory leave, and retrenchments. Comair has followed SAA and SA Express into business rescue. Cabin crew and pilots are under […]

Britain

Britain: In drive for profits, bosses push to end lockdown

May 7, 2020 Editorial from The Socialist, weekly paper of the Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)

This week will mark seven weeks since Britain entered lockdown. It appears that the death rate from Covid-19 is finally starting to fall. Nonetheless, the official number of deaths is now higher than every European […]

Britain

Britain: Only a national plan and workers’ control can guarantee a safe exit from lockdown

May 6, 2020 Martin Powell-Davies, from The Socialist (weekly paper of the Socialist Party - CWI England & Wales)

There is a growing scientific consensus that successful management of the coronavirus crisis requires a comprehensive plan – combining mass testing, contact tracing, and supported isolation of potentially infected individuals. But a managed plan of […]

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Coronavirus

South Africa: Organising working class communities under pandemic lockdown

May 6, 2020 Marxist Workers Party (CWI South Africa) statement

Two mile queues for food parcels. Corruption and patronage in their distribution. Shops being looted. Schools vandalised and burned. Collapsing household income. Confusion over accessing social grants. Tens-of-thousands of arrests and fines. Harassment, beatings, and […]

Chile

Chile: Piñera’s government unleashes brutal repression against May Day gathering

May 5, 2020 Celso Calfullan Socialism Revolucionario (CWI in Chile)

Using the covid-19 pandemic as an excuse, the criminal Chilean government, led by Sebastian Piñera, gave a blank cheque to the police – carabineros – to brutally repress a protest of the working class on […]

Coronavirus

CWI celebrates May Day and campaigns for safety in workplaces and communities

May 4, 2020 CWI Reporters

Last Friday, on 1 May, workers took action to mark May Day – international workers’ day – where they were could, despite the Covid-19 lockdowns. CWI comrades participated in and also initiated May Day actions, […]

Africa

Covid-19 and crisis in sub-Saharan Africa

May 4, 2020 Statement by the International Secretariat of the CWI

Lenin once said that with the 1917 Russian revolution, “Imperialism broke at its weakest link”. Today, the deadly combination of the Covid-19 pandemic and the rapid development of an almost unprecedented worldwide economic catastrophe is […]

India

India: Huge ‘bad debt’ write-off for big business revealed

May 1, 2020 Vasanth Kumar, New Socialist Alternative (CWI India)

A recent report that an enormous amount of taxpayers money is being used to bail out the bad debts of the super-rich has shocked workers and the poor in India, while the Modi government is […]

Britain

130 years of May Day in Britain: Fight for workers’ rights more relevant than ever

May 1, 2020 Iain Dalton, Socialist Party (England & Wales CWI)

Overworked, underpaid, struggling to afford the basics – this is true of the situation facing many ‘key workers’ that the Covid-19 lockdown has so clearly demonstrated society is dependent on. This was also the situation […]

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OBITUARY | Peter Taaffe – International Trotskyist Theoretician and Fighter for Socialism

April 23, 2025

It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Peter Taaffe, who after a long illness died on 23 April 2025. The loss of Peter is a big blow to the working class […]

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