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Lebanon

The Beirut port explosion – one year on

August 2, 2021 Iain Dalton, Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)

A year ago, a huge devastating explosion started at Beirut’s port and ended with the loss of over 200 lives, with 7,500 injured and around [...]
Israel / Palestine

Israel: Hospital ancillary workers’ strike suspended

July 31, 2021 Amnon Cohen, from The Socialist (newspaper of the Socialist Party - CWI England & Wales)

Following three days of strike action by government hospital ancillary workers, the employers have agreed to cancel the elimination of 200 posts created to handle [...]
Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka’s economic and political crisis deepens as covid ravages the country

July 30, 2021 Siritunga Jayasuriya (Siri), General Secretary of the United Socialist Party (CWI Sri Lanka)

Since coming to power in November 2019, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s government has gone through a severe crisis. Sri Lanka was once the second most powerful [...]
Britain

Britain: Labour Party expulsions confirm need for new mass workers’ party

July 29, 2021 Lenny Shail, Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)

The news that Labour’s national executive committee (NEC) has proscribed, aka expelled, a number of left-leaning groups that have clung desperately onto the Labour Party [...]
Tunisia

Tunisia: President carries out a coup

July 28, 2021 Gauche Révolutionnaire reporters (CWI France)

On Sunday 25th July, the president of Tunisia, Kaïs Saied, carried out a coup. This is in a country that has been labelled, “The Arab [...]
Mozambique

Regional military intervention will worsen Mozambique’s insurgency crisis

July 28, 2021 Shaun Arendse, Marxist Workers Party (CWI South Africa)

The 23 June Summit of the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) agreed to the deployment of a military force to northern Mozambique. This was the [...]

‘Casino capitalism’ reaches new levels as inequality grows

March 4, 2021

Across the globe, at least 2.4 million people have now died from contracting Covid-19. Livelihoods have been wrecked and economies have crashed, with the world economy shrinking by over 4% and the UK suffering a […]

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 […]