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Month: February 2021

History

How militant trade unionism in Britain defeated the 1971 Industrial Relations Act

February 27, 2021 Bill Mullins, former senior shop steward in the car industry and industrial organiser of the Socialist Party (CWI)

Bill Mullins, a former senior shop steward in the auto industry and later industrial organiser of the Socialist Party in Britain, recounts the mighty struggle of shop-floor trade unionists in Britain 50 years ago in […]

Finland

Finland: New lockdown but no new ideas coming from government

February 26, 2021 Edmund Schluessel, CWI-Finland

Finland’s government made the surprise announcement of a new lockdown on 25 February in response to spiking rates of COVID infections in the capital region and the dominance in that part of the country of […]

Scotland

Scottish Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition election campaign launched

February 25, 2021 niall

On Saturday 20 February, the Scottish Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC) conference agreed on an election manifesto for the Scottish elections, set to be held in May 2021. More than 40 attendees from around […]

Britain

Keir Starmer’s ‘big speech’ marks a clear return to New Labour

February 24, 2021 Editorial from The Socialist (Issue 1122), weekly paper of the Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)

Labour Party leader Keir Starmer’s speech, supposedly setting out his vision for Britain, did nothing to counter the criticism that he is dull. It contained virtually no policy proposals. Nonetheless, it played another role, more […]

India

The historic farmers’ struggle in India – What way forward?

February 23, 2021 Youvraj, New Socialist Alternative (CWI), Pune

The massive peasant protest of recent months, anchored around India’s capital, Delhi, with wider support across the country, is historic. It is the first time in the seven years of Modi rule that any action […]

Malaysia

Malaysia’s Emergency Order widely seen as pretext by ruling party to hold onto power

February 22, 2021 Yuva Balan, Sosialis Alternatif (CWI Malysia)

The political turmoil in Malaysia, which has lasted for almost a year, has taken a new turn following the Emergency Order declared by Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin on 12 January. Although the sudden increase in […]

Britain

Britain: National Shop Stewards Network (NSSN) online rally takes fight to bosses

February 22, 2021 Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales) reporters

On 14 February, the National Shop Stewards Network (NSSN) hosted its fifth online meeting of workplace trade union reps and workers during the pandemic. NSSN chair Rob Williams introduced the meeting explaining: “This is a […]

Communist Manifesto

The Communist Manifesto – A guide to understanding society, and how to change it

February 21, 2021 Martin Powell-Davies, Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)

The Communist Manifesto was first published on this day, 21 February, in the year 1848. Why does it continue to hold such appeal to workers, the oppressed and young people everywhere? “A spectre is haunting […]

Film review

Dear Comrades! – heroic Novocherkassk workers’ uprising depicted on film

February 20, 2021 Clare Doyle, CWI

The film ‘Dear Comrades’, produced by the Russian film-maker, Andrei Konchalevsky, came out last year and won the Special Jury Prize at the 2020 Venice Film Festival. The film brings home in dramatic detail the […]

Nigeria

What is the record of Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the WTO’s new Director General?

February 19, 2021 H.T Soweto, Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI Nigeria)

For a continent often defined to the outside world by corrupt politicians, dictators and the notorious internet scammers, a success story in any legitimate endeavour elicits celebration. This explains the outpour of joy across Nigeria […]

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  • Segun Sango: Family, Comrades, and Friends bid Outstanding Revolutionary Socialist farewell
    June 30, 2022
  • Sri Lanka: Crisis deepens
    June 29, 2022
  • Defeat of Macron in the legislative elections: An encouragement for victories against capitalism
    June 28, 2022
  • US: Out in the Streets to defend abortion rights!
    June 27, 2022
  • Ukraine war destabilising Middle East and North Africa
    June 25, 2022
  • France’s ‘president of the rich’ loses parliamentary majority
    June 24, 2022
  • Colombian presidential elections: Left candidate’s victory marks new era of mass struggle
    June 24, 2022
  • Segun Sango – an appreciation
    June 23, 2022
  • Britain: Historic RMT strikes show the way
    June 22, 2022
  • Is Brazil’s right wing president, Bolsonaro, planning a coup?
    June 17, 2022

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    August 23, 2021
  • 8oth anniversary of Trotsky’s assassination: The revolutionary ideas of a Marxist giant
    August 19, 2020
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History
  • Britain: 1972 miners’ strike – The battle of Saltley Gate
    February 19, 2022
  • The origins of Christmas and the class struggle
    December 24, 2021
  • 30 years since the end of the USSR – lessons for the workers’ movement
    December 23, 2021
  • 30 years ago: Terry Fields MP, Prisoner DV 3695 – jailing a poll tax rebel and Militant
    July 13, 2021
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    June 14, 2021
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    December 23, 2020
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    July 20, 2019
  • The growth of artificial intelligence technology
    December 10, 2018
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