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Month: August 2023

Norway

Norwegian Labour-led government behind opposition Conservatives in election race

August 30, 2023 Robin Nilsen, CWI Norway

All the opinion polls in Norway are predicting huge electoral gains for the Conservative opposition and the right wing ‘Popularists’, and huge losses for the Norwegian Labour party. On the 11th of September 2023, the […]

Russia

Wagner group leader, Prigozhin, killed in plane crash

August 29, 2023 Niall Mulholland

The death of the Russian warlord Yevgeny Prigozhin and other leaders of the Wagner group in an aircraft crash has intensified the tensions inside Vladimir Putin’s regime and the Russian state. So far, it is […]

Migrants and refugees

Migrant boat disasters – fight system which puts profit over lives

August 28, 2023 Callum Joyce, Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)

The deadly consequences of people driven into traffickers’ boats, forced to leave their homes due to poverty or to escape war and environmental devastation, have been constantly in the news in the UK and across […]

Climate Change

Wildfires devastate Maui, Hawaii – capitalist climate chaos to blame

August 24, 2023 Scott Hunter

Over 100 people have died, with many more still unaccounted for, as wildfires have raged across the island of Maui, Hawaii, making this recent disaster the deadliest wildfire in the United States in a century. […]

China

What lay behind Mao’s Cultural Revolution?

August 23, 2023 Christine Thomas, from Socialism Today (Issue 267 May 2023)

The Cultural Revolution – a period that is generally considered to have spanned the ten years from 1966 to the death of Mao Zedong in 1976 – is one of the most confusing and misunderstood […]

Britain

Why is Black unemployment so high and what can we do about it?

August 22, 2023 From The Socialist, weekly paper of the Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)

Statistics recently published by the Trades Union Congress (TUC) show unemployment among black and minority ethnic (BAME) people was at 6.9% in 2022, over double the unemployment rate of white people – 3.2%. The unemployment […]

Trotsky

82nd anniversary of Trotsky’s murder: revolutionary socialist ideas still vital today

August 21, 2023 CWI

21 August marks the anniversary of the death, in 1940, of the revolutionary socialist Leon Trotsky after being attacked the previous day by a Stalinist agent. Along with Lenin, Trotsky was the foremost leader of the […]

Women

Abortion, decriminalisation, and the right to choose

August 21, 2023 Christine Thomas , from Socialism Today Issue 269 July-August 2023

The jailing for 28 months of Carla Foster, a 44-year old woman with three children, one with special needs, for terminating a pregnancy during Covid lockdown has shone a spotlight on abortion laws in England […]

Book review

‘The Capital Order: How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way for Fascism’

August 19, 2023 Paul Kershaw,  Socialism Today (issue 268 June 2023)

The age of austerity is clearly not over as capitalist politicians of all persuasions compete to manage economic crisis in the interest of the capitalist class. PAUL KERSHAW reviews a book that places economic austerity […]

Britain

Welsh devolution – a case study of Labour in power

August 18, 2023 Dave Reid, Socialist Party Wales

The next UK government is likely to be a Labour government led by Keir Starmer. The huge lead that Starmer currently enjoys is not a vote of confidence in him, the current leadership of the […]

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    August 21, 2023
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