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FinlandFinland’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 [...]
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ScotlandOn Saturday 20 February, the Scottish Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC) conference agreed on an election manifesto for the Scottish elections, set to be [...]
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BritainLabour 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 [...]
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IndiaThe 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 [...]
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MalaysiaThe political turmoil in Malaysia, which has lasted for almost a year, has taken a new turn following the Emergency Order declared by Prime Minister [...]
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BritainOn 14 February, the National Shop Stewards Network (NSSN) hosted its fifth online meeting of workplace trade union reps and workers during the pandemic. NSSN [...]
Economy

World Economy
Global capitalism at most perilous since 1930s
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 […]

World Economy
Super-rich tax evasion costs equivalent of thirty four million nurses worldwide
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 […]

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Worldwide capitalist crisis deepens – step up the fight for socialism
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 […]
Theory

8oth anniversary of Trotsky’s assassination: The revolutionary ideas of a Marxist giant

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

Socialists debate identity politics
