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Finland: Covid triumphalism covers austerity betrayal

June 18, 2020 Edmund Schluessel, CWI-Finland

Finland’s ruling Social Democrats are riding high in the polls as the country emerges from the first wave of coronavirus, not untouched, but far less stricken than its neighbors, Sweden and Russia. The Social Democrats […]

Which way forward for Black Lives Matter protests?

June 17, 2020 Editorial from The Socialist (weekly paper of the Socialist Party - CWI England & Wales)

Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests have continued across Britain. Boris Johnson’s announcement of yet another review – revealingly into what he calls the “sense of victimisation” of black, Asian and minority ethnic people – will […]

Thousands demonstrate in support of BLM in Slovakia

June 16, 2020 CWI Reporter, Bratislava

As the repercussions of the uprising in the US against racism and police brutality continue to reverberate around the world, 800 attended a BLM rally in Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia. Organised by a handful […]

Ecuador’s new cycle of mass protests

June 15, 2020 Interview with an activist

Interview with Vincent, an activist from the US who has been living in Ecuador for the past several years and working as an English teacher and freelance journalist. Vincent, you have been documenting in photographs […]

“You fight capitalism with socialism” – BLM and socialist struggle

June 13, 2020 Hannah Sell, from The Socialist (newspaper of the Socialist Party - CWI England & Wales)

The current Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement is the biggest wave of protests against racism since the Civil Rights movement in the 1960s. The most radical leaders of that movement drew the conclusion, as Malcolm […]

USA: Black and white youth rise up against racism

June 12, 2020 Interview with Independent Socialist Group (USA) protester

Emery Addams from the Independent Socialist Group (US) talks about the significance of the mass anti-racist protests shaking the US, outlining the programme and organisation necessary to end racism. This is the biggest anti-racism mobilisation […]

France: 20,000 rally against Paris’s killer gendarmes

June 12, 2020 Gauche Révolutionnaire (CWI France) Reporters

Young people and workers have protested across the world. In France, an inquiry verdict on 29 May cleared three gendarmes (military police) of killing 24-year-old black man Adama Traoré. Up to 20,000 people rallied in […]

“For the world, the blow will be very difficult and very serious,” – Russian oligarch warns about economic consequences of pandemic

June 11, 2020 Dmitriev Alexandr, CWI Russia

Anatoly Chubais, the Russian oligarch, Chairman of Rusnano and one of the main initiators of privatisation in the 1990s, warned Forbes magazine recently about the consequences of the pandemic and the global crisis of 2020 […]

Black Lives Matter protests sweep Britain: How can the movement win?

June 10, 2020 Editorial from The Socialist (weekly paper of the Socialist Party - CWI England & Wales)

“We have outgrown you, despite your best efforts to keep us in the same place. You are in power, but you are outmoded. You’re the old form of human. And the new form is coming […]

Empty accolades for health workers, billions for big companies, lay-offs for millions – Macron “managing’ the crisis”

June 9, 2020 Leïla Messaoudi, Councillor for Petit-Quevilly (Rouen) and a member of Gauche Révolutionnaire (CWI in France)

After two and a half months, the lockdown is now over in France and it is time to draw a first balance sheet. There is not one single aspect of the way Macron’s government managed […]