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  Ireland North

  Ireland North: 25th anniversary of the Omagh bombing

  August 16, 2023 Anton McCabe, Militant Left (CWI), Omagh

  The Omagh bomb of 25 years ago was the end of any significant republican armed campaign in Ireland or elsewhere. The backlash ruled such out for many years. The Omagh bombing was one of the [...]

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  South Africa

  SA general election approaches – a crisis of political representation for capitalist class and working class

  August 14, 2023 Marxist Workers Party (CWI South Africa) reporters

  One of Italian Communist Antonio Gramsci’s most quoted phrases is his 1930 statement in the ‘Prison Notebooks’: ‘The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; [...]

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  Film Review

  ‘Oppenheimer’ – an indictment of nuclear weapons, capitalism and imperialism

  August 12, 2023 Lynda McEwan

  Christopher Nolan’s epic blockbuster movie Oppenheimer charts the career of Robert Oppenheimer, a Jewish American, theoretical physicist from university to his involvement in the Manhattan Project and the building of his Los Alamos laboratory during [...]

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  Britain

  Broad Left Network of UK civil service union, PCS, calls for continuing pay campaign

  August 11, 2023 Socialist Party (CWI) members in PCS

  The UK civil service trade union, PCS, is balloting its members on its response to a government pay offer. Socialist Party (CWI) members in PCS are part of the Broad Left Network (BLN), campaigning for [...]

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  Britain

  Desperate Tory government drives environmental destruction

  August 10, 2023 Editorial from The Socialist, weekly paper of the Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)

  Facing a potential electoral landslide against them, the Tories are desperate. Hundreds of Tory MPs threatened with losing their jobs are desperately clawing to find a ledge to cling onto. Narrowly holding onto Boris Johnson’s [...]