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Month: August 2020

Engels

“What a torch of reason ceased to burn, What a heart has ceased to beat!” – 125 years since the death of Friedrich Engels

August 5, 2020 Articles by Peter Taaffe and VI Lenin

Today, 5 August 2020, marks 125 years since the death of Friedrich Engels (28 November 1820 – 5 August 1895). To mark this anniversary, we republish a book review of Engels – A Revolutionary Life, […]

Britain

From first wave to second? Boris Johnson’s covid failures

August 5, 2020 Martin Powell-Davies, from The Socialist (weekly paper of the Socialist Party - CWI England & Wales)

Back in March, when the spread of the coronavirus pandemic was accelerating globally, the Socialist newspaper explained that “a newly-spreading virus is a danger that can befall any society. The question facing the world today, […]

Iran

Iran: Oil, petro-chemical and heavy equipment workers join sugar workers taking strike action

August 4, 2020 Lukas Zöbelein, Sozialistische Organisation Solidarität (CWI Germany)

With a strike involving thousands of Haft Tappeh sugarcane refinery workers about to enter its third month, other significant strikes began in Iran at the start of August. Some were in the oil industry where […]

South Africa

ANC’s mishandling of covid crisis shows need for co-ordinated working class fightback

August 3, 2020 Marxist Workers Party (CWI South Africa) Reporters

Symbolic protests by left activists took place on 1 August in South Africa because of a growing feeling that something must be done. The country has been in lockdown for over four months but we […]

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