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  “A Collective Bargain: Unions, Organizing, and the Fight for Democracy,” – a critical review

  March 4, 2023 Sascha Staničić, Sozialistische Organisation Solidarität (CWI in Germany)

  Hardly anything has been discussed more intensively among trade unionists in Germany in recent years than the issue of “organising”. These have been in relation to organising concepts used, in one form or another, by [...]

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  France

  7 March – “France at a standstill”

  March 4, 2023 Translation of a statement of Gauche Révolutionnaire, CWI France, written by Cécile Rimboud in advance of the March strikes

  Since 19 January, six days of strikes and national demonstrations have brought together millions of workers, young people and pensioners in a formidable struggle against the destruction of pensions. In one month, the question of [...]

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  Australia

  As workers’ living standards fall, Australia’s long economic boom comes to an end

  March 3, 2023 John Gowland, Socialism Today (CWI Australia)

  For three decades, Australia has experienced almost continual economic growth, even escaping the 2008 world financial and economic crisis. While there has been a marked decline in living standards for workers in every country, now [...]

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  Greece

  Shock turns to anger over horrific Greek rail crash

  March 2, 2023 CWI

  The pictures of incinerated carriages strewn across the tracks following a head-on train crash outside Tempi, in central Greece, will have shocked everyone who has seen them. In Greece, that shock is turning to anger. [...]

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  Capitalism’s ‘Megathreats’

  March 1, 2023 Tony Saunois reviews 'Megathreats: The Ten Trends that Imperil Our Future, and How to Survive Them'

  Many bourgeois economists have tended to put a gloss on the deep systemic crisis facing world capitalism. They have often seized upon this or that marginal piece of “good” news to empirically conclude that this [...]