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  2011 Arab Spring: Revolutionary uprisings swept the middle east

  December 6, 2023 David Johnson 

  The catastrophic situation in Gaza follows years of grim events across the Middle East. Just 13 years ago a very different outcome was possible. The ‘Arab Spring’ could have set the region on a different [...]

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  Kazakhstan

  Bloody cost of privatisation in Kazakhstan’s metal mines

  December 5, 2023 Mick Whale, Campaign Kazakhstan

  The recent death of 46 miners in the Kostenko mine is the largest loss of life in the history of Kazakhstan’s mining industry (for more background information: Forty six workers killed in explosion at Kostenko [...]

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  Norway

  Governing Norwegian Labour Party support falls as workers face cost of living crisis

  December 4, 2023 Robin Nilsen, CWI Norway

  In previous articles, we have described how the two Norwegian parties in the coalition government have lost popular mandates. The main party, the AP (Labour Party), has seen its support in Gallup polls drastically reduced. [...]

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  Book review

  The Long Game – Inside Sinn Féin

  December 2, 2023 Niall Mulholland

  Sinn Féin is consistently polling ahead in the Republic of Ireland, and in Northern Ireland it is the biggest party. When the Assembly is restored in the North, and in the aftermath of the next [...]

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  Climate Change & Environment

  Climate change: can technology save us?

  December 1, 2023 Pete Mason

  After UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s latest October U-turn, all new cars sold in the UK must be electric by 2035, five years later than the original date. Of course, who knows what it will [...]