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Month: October 2021

Environment & Climate Change

Pro-market climate plans set to fail – socialist planning needed

October 29, 2021 Nick Hart, Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)

The Tory government have finally published their strategy for the UK to achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. According to Boris Johnson, this will see the UK “lead the world in ending our contribution to […]

Comment & Analysis

Julian Assange extradition hearing – journalism is not a crime!

October 28, 2021 Anton McCabe, National Union of Journalists national executive member (personal capacity) and Militant Left supporter (CWI Ireland)

The proposed extradition of journalist and whistle-blower Julian Assange from Britain to the United States is a threat both to those who expose the wrong-doing of America’s ruling élite, to free speech, and to journalism […]

Environment & Climate Change

COP26: Protest for socialist change to reverse climate chaos

October 28, 2021 From The Socialist, weekly paper of the Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)

The UN’s climate change panel, the IPCC, says that it is ‘code red for humanity’; that a rise of 1.5°C in global temperatures is unavoidable over the next few decades and rises above that are […]

Sudan

Military coup in Sudan – defiant masses take to the streets

October 27, 2021 John Gillman, from The Socialist, weekly paper of the Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)

A military coup is taking place in Sudan. The army has arrested civilian ministers and their advisors. However, tens of thousands of protesters have taken to the streets in defiance with chants of: “The people […]

Environment & Climate Change

COP26: Workers in Scotland plan strikes during summit

October 27, 2021 Philip Stott, Socialist Party Scotland (CWI Scotland)

Rail, bus and council workers are preparing strike action during COP26. Socialist Party Scotland (CWI Scotland) offers our full support. The RMT rail and transport union has announced 12 days of strike action, from 1-12 […]

Britain

Britain: New openings for militant trade unionism

October 26, 2021 Editorial from  Socialism Today (Issue 252 October 2021), monthly magazine of the Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)

The victory of Sharon Graham as general secretary of Unite, amongst the biggest trade unions in the UK and Ireland and undoubtedly the most influential industrially and politically, has struck the labour movement as a […]

Ireland Republic

Ireland’s mental health crisis

October 25, 2021 Carah Daniel, Militant Left (CWI Ireland)

Last week, we saw an allocation of €37 million toward mental health in the budget of the right wing coalition government in Southern  Ireland. This falls far short of the type of funding that is […]

Environment & Climate Change

COP26: Save the planet from capitalist climate catastrophe

October 23, 2021 Akhalya, Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales), Birmingham

The world leaders, including Boris Johnson and Joe Biden, will arrive at the COP26 climate conference starting on 31 October in their polluting private jets, to talk about how we must do more to prevent […]

Chile

Chile: Two years on from the ‘October 18th’ mass revolt – the fight continues!

October 21, 2021 Celso Calfullan, Socialismo Revolucionario (CWI Chile)

A mass mobilization on Monday, October 18, showed us that the fight against the dictatorship of the capitalist and neoliberal right is still more in force than ever. Hundreds of thousands took to the streets […]

Environment & Climate Change

COP26: Trade unions must fight for a socialist transition to renewables

October 21, 2021 Chris Baugh, from The Socialist, weekly paper of the Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)

The UK government is hosting the 26th United Nations Climate Change ‘Conference of the Parties’ (COP26) in Glasgow from 31 October to 12 November 2021. The ‘Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’ (IPCC) was formed in […]

Nigeria

Justice for October 2020  – EndSARS police brutality in Nigeria

October 20, 2021 Text of leaflet issued by Youth Rights Campaign (YRC), Nigeria

On the occasion of the first anniversary of the #EndSARS protest, the Youth Rights Campaign (YRC) salute all radical youth who stood against police brutality and state repression, last October, as well as those who […]

Britain

Is Britain entering a new industrial ‘winter of discontent’?

October 19, 2021 Kevin Parslow, from The Socialist, weekly paper of the Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)

A combination of the rising cost of living, low pay, tax increases, and fuel and food shortages has led some commentators in the British establishment media to talk about the possibility of a new ‘winter […]

Nigeria

Pandora Papers shine light on Nigeria’s “fantastically corrupt” elite

October 18, 2021 HT Soweto, Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI Nigeria)

Premium Times, along with a few other media organizations in Nigeria, has been publishing daily exposures of the revelations they unearthed, alongside 600 journalists from 150 news organizations around the world, in a global investigation […]

Chile

Two years since the ‘October rebellion’ – a balance sheet

October 16, 2021 Pedro Albornos, Socialismo Revolucionario (CWI Chile)

This month completes two years since the social rebellion which began on 18 October 2019. This event, the most important in recent Chilean history, signalled a new chapter in the crisis of the entire political […]

Austria

Austria: Chancellor Kurz resigns amid allegations of corruption

October 15, 2021 Laura Rafetseder, Sozialistische Offensive (CWI Austria)

Sebastian Kurz, for five years a shooting star of the European conservatives, had to “step aside” as Austria’s Chancellor on 9 October. His resignation comes amid criminal investigations against those closest to him and with […]

Britain

Britain: Cynical Tories fake concern for struggling workers

October 14, 2021 Editorial of the Socialist, weekly paper of the Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)

In September, the Tory government in Britain briefly dipped below Labour in opinion polls, as workers faced a winter of Tory rule featuring pay restraint, soaring prices, tax hikes and shortages. Boris Johnson’s Tory Party […]

Egypt

Egypt: Workers strike despite new repression

October 13, 2021 David Johnson, CWI

Workers’ rights in Egypt are harshly repressed under President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi’s brutal regime. There have been very few strikes in recent years. Workplace activists have been jailed, where torture is widely used. However, two large […]

Environment & Climate Change

COP26: Build a mass working-class climate movement with socialist polices

October 12, 2021 Matt Dobson, Socialist Party Scotland (CWI)

The COP 26 UN climate summit in Glasgow is now only a month away. Over 30,000 official participants, including US president Biden, UK prime minister Johnson, president Macron of France and a legion of elite […]

World Economy

Volatility in world supply chains

October 11, 2021 Judy Beishon, from The Socialist (weekly paper of the Socialist Party - CWI England & Wales)

The recent acute shortages of energy, goods, and labour in some sectors in the UK stem in large part from UK-specific capitalist failings. But the volatile world situation is part of the background to those […]

USA

US Federal judge temporarily blocks Texas abortion ban

October 8, 2021 Independent Socialist Group (USA) reporters

The Texas ban on abortion has been put on hold by a Federal judge in Texas temporarily blocking its implementation by granting a request by the Biden administration to prevent any enforcement of the law […]

Britain

Britain: Bakers’ union disaffiliates from Labour Party

October 7, 2021 Editorial of the Socialist (issue 1150) weekly paper of the Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)

“The decision taken by delegates who predominantly live in what’s regarded as Labour red wall seats shows how far the Labour Party has travelled away from the aims and hopes of working-class organisations like ours”. […]

South Africa

Steel and engineering workers take national strike action

October 6, 2021 Shaun Arendse, Marxist Workers Party (South Africa)

The Marxist Workers Party (CWI South Africa) stands in solidarity with the steel and engineering workers who began national strike action on 5 October. This action on pay is being led by Numsa, the dominant […]

Comment & Analysis

‘Pandora papers’ put capitalism in the dock

October 5, 2021 Tony Saunois, CWI Secretary

The explosive leaking of 6.4 million documents and 1.2 million emails, the ‘Pandora papers’, showing the grotesque activities of the super-rich, stashing billions of US$ in offshore accounts to avoid tax and to launder money, […]

Germany

Solidarity Appeal: Support the Berlin hospital strike

October 5, 2021 Sascha Staničić, Sozialistische Organisation Solidarität (Sol, CWI section in Germany)

For twenty-six days, nurses at the two largest public Berlin hospital chains, Charité and Vivantes, and the technical staff of the latter, have been on strike. More than 2,000 workers have joined the trade union […]

Nigeria

Book review: The legacy of British colonialism in Nigeria

October 4, 2021 Sophie Simcox, from Socialism Today (October 2021 issue), monthly magazine of the Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)

‘Nigeria is a failed state’. This was the headline of an article in the May 2021 edition of the US Foreign Affairs magazine, as two US academics, one of them previously US Ambassador to Nigeria, […]

Austria

Communist Party wins council elections in Austria’s second-largest city

October 1, 2021 Laura Rafetseder, Sozialistische Offensive (CWI Austria)

The Communist Party in Austria, KPÖ, came first in the recent Graz city elections, with 29% of the vote (34,000 votes). This sensational result for the Communist Party in Graz (KPÖ Graz) is a result […]

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