Statements from the International Secretariat
Report and Analysis from the countries
Chile
- Chile: Piñera’s government unleashes brutal repression against May Day gathering
May 5, 2020
- Chilean government’s handling of covid-19 crisis is a social, political mine-field
April 27, 2020
- Chile: Trade unionists, left organisations call for workers’ congress to tackle covid-19 crisis
April 16, 2020
- Chile: Union bureaucracy attempt to expel a workers’ leader defending shop workers exposed to covid-19
April 7, 2020
China
- China and the fall-out from Covid-19
June 6, 2020
- China: Trump’s insults fuel rivalry
May 8, 2020
- China: Coronavirus crisis shakes regime
February 19, 2020
England & Wales
- Black and Asian covid-19 deaths: An indictment of capitalist inequality
May 28, 2020
- Pandemic shortages caused by capitalist market – socialist planning is the alternative
May 14, 2020
- Britain: Tories put profit before lives
May 13, 2020
- 75th anniversary of ‘VE Day’: No return to the 1930s
May 8, 2020
- Britain: In drive for profits, bosses push to end lockdown
May 7, 2020
- Britain: Only a national plan and workers’ control can guarantee a safe exit from lockdown
May 6, 2020
- Britain: Workers’ safety before bosses’ profits
April 30, 2020
- London bus drivers’ action over covid-19 safety stops front door boarding
April 23, 2020
- Covid-19: Bosses put lives at risk with push for ‘exit strategy’
April 15, 2020
- Covid-19: Organise to fight for health and safety – socialist planning not capitalist chaos
April 10, 2020
Germany
- Germany: Corona is the virus – capitalism is the pandemic!
April 15, 2020
- Covid 19: The biggest crisis in German post-war history
April 14, 2020
- Coronavirus crisis…strikes and workers’ protests
March 30, 2020
India
- India: Fighting the curse of capitalism and coronavirus
April 24, 2020
- Covid-19: Joint statement by Indian unions and New Socialist Alternative (CWI) demands nationalisation of health sector
April 17, 2020
- India: Migrant workers face police attacks in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu
April 6, 2020
Malaysia
Nigeria
- Nigeria: Government locks down without adequate resources for the masses
April 29, 2020
- Coronavirus: Capitalism fails to defend the health of millions of Nigerians
March 27, 2020
Scotland
- Scotland: Lockdown exit exposing Tory and Scottish National Party failures
May 11, 2020
- Scottish government failing over covid-19
April 1, 2020
Sri Lanka
- Sri Lankan government uses covid 19 state of emergency to bolster its political power
April 4, 2020
- Sri Lanka: When socialist pioneers fought malaria and colonialism
March 29, 2020
South Africa
- South Africa: Fight retrenchments, outsourcing and pay cuts in the aviation industry
May 7, 2020
- South Africa: Organising working class communities under pandemic lockdown
May 6, 2020
- South Africa: Militarised lockdown against the working class and poor
April 8, 2020
- South Africa: Covid-19 exposes bankruptcy of ANC’s capitalist policies
March 28, 2020
Ireland Republic
- Irish police use covid-19 emergency powers to disperse Dublin shop workers’ protest
April 22, 2020
- Coronavirus hits Ireland following transformed post-election landscape
March 25, 2020
Ireland North
- Stormont Assembly ministers fail care home workers and residents exposed to covid-19
May 21, 2020
- Workers mobilise over covid-19 threat, as Northern Ireland Executive divides
April 1, 2020
- Coronavirus: Belfast City council workers put at risk
March 21, 2020
Italy
- ‘Health not profit’ strike wave sweeps Italy
March 15, 2020
- Italy on lockdown: lack of resources and democracy causes panic
March 14, 2020
Russia
- Putin’s early ending of lockdown cannot disguise depth of covid-19 crisis
June 2, 2020
- Popular anger grows in Russia over Putin’s handling of covid-19 crisis
April 20, 2020
Sweden
- Coronavirus: Is Sweden turning vulnerable patients away to die?
April 28, 2020
- Sweden’s coronavirus catastrophe: a failure of neo-liberalism, accountability and capitalism
April 8, 2020
- Finland, Sweden, Denmark…Covid 19 and governments’ responses
April 3, 2020