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Environment

The dark side of ‘clean energy’

April 12, 2021 Clare Wilkins from Socialism Today (April 2021 issue)

Are ‘green’ and digital technologies environmentally friendly? The transition to green and digital technologies is portrayed as the way to move to zero carbon emissions [...]
US

USA: Striking nurses address Independent Socialist Group solidarity meeting

April 9, 2021 Independent Socialist Group reporters, Worcester (USA)

On March 22, Worcester Independent Socialist Group (ISG) organized a public meeting in solidarity with the nurses on strike against the Tenet Healthcare Corporation, owner [...]
Britain

Is the 1980s Liverpool mass struggle example still possible?

April 9, 2021 Editorial from Socialism Today (Issue 247 April 2021)

Labour Party leader, Keir Starmer, launched the party’s campaign for the May local and mayoral elections in England on March 11 by majoring on Boris [...]
Britain

Britain: 1981 Brixton riots – anger explodes over racism and poverty

April 8, 2021 Clare Doyle, from The Socialist newspaper

April 2021 marks the 40th anniversary of the riots in Brixton, south London, against police racism, unemployment, and poverty. Today, the report from the Tory [...]
Britain

Outrage over ‘Race and Ethnic Disparities’ report that concludes UK “a model for other white-majority countries”

April 7, 2021 Isai Priya, from The Socialist (weekly paper of the Socialist Party - CWI England & Wales)

The report by the Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities has concluded that claims of institutional racism are “not borne out” and that the UK [...]
Ireland Republic

Ireland: What does the RISE and People Before Profit merger represent?

April 6, 2021 Militant Left (CWI Ireland)

The recent Revolutionary Internationalist Socialist and Environmentalist (RISE) and People Before Profit (PBP) merger in Ireland attracted media attention. People Before Profit now has four [...]

‘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 […]