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South Africa

South Africa: Class struggle burning across townships

May 23, 2017 Alec Thraves, Pretoria

The constant smell of smoke from the burning wood fires in the townships, as residents attempt to keep warm from the freezing winter nights in their flimsy tin shacks, is just one of the reasons […]

USA

US: Comey scandal – Trump faces deepening crisis

May 19, 2017 Tom Crean, Socialist Alternative (US)

Trump’s firing of FBI Director James Comey last week has led to a spiralling political crisis in Washington. The sharp divisions in the political establishment and within the state apparatus have become even sharper due […]

Greece

Greece: New austerity measures imposed on working class

May 15, 2017 Editorial comment from the current edition ‘Xekinima’ (fortnightly journal of the Greek section of the CWI, ‘Xekinima – Internationalist Socialist Organisation)

When New Democracy (Greece’s traditional right-wing party) and PASOK (the so-called “socialists”) were applying austerity policies, arguing that these were the way to a new period of prosperity, the mass of working class people were […]

Scotland

Scotland: College lecturers strike demands #honourthedeal

May 12, 2017 Matt Dobson, Socialist Party Scotland (CWI)

Lecturers in 20 colleges across Scotland have now taken four days of national strike action over the refusal of Colleges Scotland to honour a national bargaining deal on pay and conditions that was reached in […]

Ireland Republic

Ireland: #TravellerLivesMatter – the struggle against racism and injustice

May 12, 2017 Oisín Kelly, Socialist Party (CWI Ireland)

Travellers in Ireland face daily discrimination and racism by the Northern and Southern states and within society, at large. But there are now growing demands for equality from a community that suffers enormously from poverty […]

Britain

Britain: Local election results must mean Corbyn campaign is stepped up

May 11, 2017 Editorial of the Socialist, weekly paper of the Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)

The results of the 4 May county council and metro mayor elections will have disappointed many supporters of Jeremy Corbyn. They must act to sound the alarm – Jeremy Corbyn can win this election but only with […]

China

China: Regime steps up repression in Xinjiang

May 10, 2017 Li Yiming, chinaworker.info

Xinjiang is the vast Muslim-majority region in China’s far west where Turkic speaking Uighur Muslims are the largest ethnic group. Under Chinese rule it has been transformed into a 1.7 million square kilometre prison. Rich […]

Israel / Palestine

Israel/Palestine: Palestinian prisoners on mass hunger strike protest

May 9, 2017 Shahar Ben-Horin, Socialist Struggle Movement (CWI Israel-Palestine)

The “Strike of Freedom and Honour” is the name given to a mass hunger strike of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails, which started indefinitely on the Palestinian Prisoner Day, 17 April. The prisoners […]

Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan: Repression and concession

May 8, 2017 CWI

3 May is designated ‘International Day of Freedom of the Press’. It will come as no surprise that Kazakhstan comes very near the bottom of the world’s press freedom league – 157th out of 180. The […]

Greece

Greece: 67% of young Greeks would join a “mass uprising” against government

May 5, 2017 Alexandros Prandunas, Xekinima (CWI in Greece)

          Greece’s agony continues. This week, more pension cuts and tax increases were agreed by the Syriza-led government and international creditors, in return for €7.5bn emergency loans to enable Athens to […]

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