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Capitalist profit and the race to develop a covid vaccine

September 18, 2020 Jon Dale

Governments around the world failed to protect people from Covid-19. Now they are desperately looking to vaccine development. Mass vaccination seems the best way to [...]
Britain

Britain: Tory Prime Minister’s brinkmanship over EU deal deepens capitalist splits

September 17, 2020 Steve Score, from The Socialist (weekly paper of the Socialist Party - CWI England & Wales)

When no less than three former Tory prime ministers line up to attack Johnson’s government, when the Justice Secretary says – while supporting the proposed [...]
Thailand

Thailand: Youth rising against unpopular junta regime

September 15, 2020 Yuva, Sosialis Alternatif (CWI Malaysia)

Since the beginning of this year, Thailand has witnessed the rising up of youth and students who have launched massive protests in several major cities, [...]
Britain

Britain: Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition to stand in elections again against pro-austerity politicians

September 14, 2020 Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales) Reporters

The Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC) national steering committee, meeting on 2 September, has agreed to resume standing candidates in elections, starting in the [...]
Nigeria

Nigeria: Organising against fuel and electricity price hikes

September 11, 2020 Peluola Adewale Organising Secretary, Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI Nigeria)

As Nigeria is hit by economic recession and Covid, protests are starting to develop against new added burdens of increases in fuel and electricity prices. [...]
Nigeria

Nigeria: Socialists and journalists arrested for protesting government’s anti-poor policies

September 10, 2020 Socialist Party of Nigeria (SPN) statement

The Socialist Party of Nigeria (SPN) condemns the unjust arrest of members and journalists for protesting against anti-poor policies by the Buhari Government We demand [...]

Coronavirus plunges capitalism into global turmoil -The need for a socialist alternative

March 23, 2020

Statement from International Secretariat of the CWI 23 March 2020 The outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic has plunged world capitalism and society into an entirely new era of turmoil and upheaval. In country after country, […]

World Economy: The new crisis and its consequences

March 19, 2020

As global markets reel in the face of the developing coronavirus pandemic, it is difficult to see how these events will not be the trigger for a new world capitalist economic downturn, with all the […]

Capitalist crisis and coronavirus: Tory Prime Minister Johnson’s budget for the bosses

March 14, 2020

British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, won the general election, last December, by trying to pose as a ‘man of the people’. Despite the rhetoric the first budget of his premiership showed clearly that, like all […]