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Inauguration day clashes loom – The US in crisis and need for a socialist alternative

January 16, 2021 Tony Saunois CWI secretary

Amid unprecedented events, thousands of supporters of Donald Trump supporters rallied in Washington on 6 January. Hundreds, some armed, then stormed the congress buildings on Capitol Hill in Washington DC. Donald Trump, promising a “wild” […]

Japan

Japan’s change of prime minister fails to stem government’s problems

January 15, 2021 Carl Simmons (Kokusai Rentai, CWI Japan)

2020 was a tempestuous year for Japan, as well as the rest of the world. In August, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe became the longest-serving prime minister in Japanese history. However, it had been clear for […]

Finland

Finland: Happiest country in the world?

January 14, 2021 Edmund Schluessel (CWI in Finland)

Finland has, for the third year in a row, been declared the happiest country in the world in the “World Happiness Report.” Strong unions and a strong welfare state contribute to this ranking, but these […]

Lebanon

Lebanon’s overlapping crises create desperate situation for working class

January 12, 2021 Iain Dalton

Like many countries around the world, 2021 has begun with a new lockdown being implemented across Lebanon, until the end of January. This is a result of a dramatic increase in the numbers of Covid […]

Hong Kong

Hong Kong: Sweeping arrests of activists presage dark period ahead

January 12, 2021 Clare Doyle, CWI

Last Wednesday, January 6th, more than a thousand state forces carried out pre-dawn raids on 73 premises in Hong Kong. They arrested 53 activists and politicians for “subversion” under the National Security Law imposed by […]

US

Pro-Trump supporters’ attacks on Capitol Hill – A socialist response

January 11, 2021 Independent Socialist Group (USA) statement

On January 6th, the Congress of the United States formally certified the results of the Electoral College, which Joe Biden won. On the same day, President Trump gave a speech to a rally outside the […]

Sweden

Sweden: Covid devastation as nurses pushed beyond breaking point

January 9, 2021 Edmund Schluessel (CWI in Finland)

As 2020 came to a close, the Swedish health care system reached a point many feared. Nurses in Sweden’s hospitals, strained from months of 13-hour shifts and with no end in sight to the rampant […]

CWI

US in crisis – need for a mass workers’ party and socialist programme

January 7, 2021 Tony Saunois, CWI Secretary

In unprecedented scenes, reminiscent of events in Latin America, Asia or Africa, US capitalism plunged into a deeper crisis yesterday as thousands of Trump supporters stormed the Congress on Capitol Hill urged on by their […]

Britain

British judge rules against Julian Assange’s extradition but refuses bail

January 7, 2021 Niall Mulholland

The WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, won a partial victory in his long battle to avoid extradition from Britain to the US. District Judge Baraister, at the Old Bailey court, ruled earlier this week against Assange’s […]

Ireland Republic

Protests follow police fatal shooting of George Nkencho in Dublin suburb

January 6, 2021 Carah Daniel, Militant Left (CWI Ireland)

George Nkencho, a 27-year-old Black man, was killed by the Gardaí (Irish police) outside his home in Blanchardstown, a suburb of Dublin, on 30 December 2020. The shooting followed an altercation at a local shop […]

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