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  • [ May 25, 2022 ] 2022 Australian elections: A change in governing parties but much the same politics Australia
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  • [ May 23, 2022 ] ‘Independents’ breakthrough in Lebanese elections shows possibilities of change Lebanon
  • [ May 20, 2022 ] Socialist Party congress 2022: Social explosion is inevitable Britain

Month: May 2022

Australia

2022 Australian elections: A change in governing parties but much the same politics

May 25, 2022 John Gowland, Militant Left (CWI Australia)

The backdrop of the Australian Federal Elections were two issues; climate change and falling living standards. Australia has had a continued growth rate for the past 30 years, mainly on the back of mineral exports […]

Finland

Finland: Public sector strikes – still no deal

May 24, 2022 Edmund Schluessel, CWI in Finland

Workers organized in Finnish unions OAJ and JHL, and several smaller unions, concluded a nationwide rolling strike action with a week-long strike that closed schools and disrupted municipal services across the country from 3 to […]

Philippines

How did Marcos Jr, son of an infamous dictator, win the Philippines election?

May 23, 2022 Yuva Balan

In a landslide victory, Ferdinand Marcos Jr., better known as Bong Bong Marcos or simply BBM, is to become the new president of the Philippines in late May. The son and namesake of the infamous […]

Lebanon

‘Independents’ breakthrough in Lebanese elections shows possibilities of change

May 23, 2022 Iain Dalton

On 15th May, Lebanese voters went to the polls in one of the strangest elections in recent years. The unprecedented social collapse in Lebanon over the last few years was the background to this election. […]

Britain

Socialist Party congress 2022: Social explosion is inevitable

May 20, 2022 Kevin Parslow

The Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales) congress took place from 14 to 16 May in London – the first since February 2020 because of Covid. Congress is the most important democratic decision-making body of […]

Nigeria

Mob killing of student for “blasphemy” indicates danger of descent into full blown barbarism in Nigeria

May 19, 2022 Peluola Adewale, Organising Secretary, DSM (CWI Nigeria)

The Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM) joins members of the public to condemn the brutal and gruesome killing on Thursday 12 May 2022 of Ms. Deborah Samuel, a second year student at Shehu Shagari College of […]

Ireland North

Ireland North: Sinn Féin emerges as largest party in Assembly elections

May 18, 2022 Militant Left (CWI Ireland) reporters

The results of the Northern Ireland Assembly election on May 5th mark a significant political turning point. For the first time since the partition of Ireland in 1921, a nationalist party has emerged with the […]

Britain

Britain: Lessons of the P&O mass sackings

May 16, 2022 Rob Williams from Socialism Today (Issue 257 May 2022)

March 17th 2022 will now always be synonymous with P&O as far as trade union activists are concerned, with the vicious assault on the workers’ jobs and contracts carried out on that day. The company […]

Russia

How Russia’s gangster capitalists seized power

May 14, 2022 Peter Taaffe from Socialism Today (Issue 257 May 2022)

Putin’s brutal regime emerged in conditions of economic anarchy as a new capitalist class was forming amidst the collapse of the previously planned economy. Peter Taaffe reviews a recent book that graphically describes what happened. […]

Oil industry

Seize the oil giants’ cash mountain

May 13, 2022 Sare O’Neill, South East London Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)

£40 billion. That’s the eye-watering sum oil giants BP and Shell are set to make this year alone. A year that has seen a dire cost-of-living crisis hit the working class so significantly that over […]

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  • How did Marcos Jr, son of an infamous dictator, win the Philippines election?
    May 23, 2022
  • ‘Independents’ breakthrough in Lebanese elections shows possibilities of change
    May 23, 2022
  • Socialist Party congress 2022: Social explosion is inevitable
    May 20, 2022
  • Mob killing of student for “blasphemy” indicates danger of descent into full blown barbarism in Nigeria
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  • Britain: Lessons of the P&O mass sackings
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