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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]

Global capitalism at most perilous since 1930s

January 13, 2021

For over a year, the Covid-19 pandemic has wreaked havoc across the globe, causing over two million deaths and unleashing enormous economic and social crises. 2021 has ushered in new lockdowns in the UK, Germany […]

Super-rich tax evasion costs equivalent of thirty four million nurses worldwide

December 15, 2020

Around £320 billion is lost annually to corporate tax abuse and private tax evasion, the equivalent of nearly 34 million nurses’ salaries, according to the Tax Justice Network. Poorer countries are most affected, with tax […]

Worldwide capitalist crisis deepens – step up the fight for socialism

October 7, 2020

A decade ago, following the worldwide financial crash, a Financial Times editorial congratulated capitalism on a bit of luck that “the left” was “missing in action in what should have been its finest hour. In […]