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  LGBTQ+

  Authoritarian Tories block Scottish parliament’s gender recognition reform

  January 23, 2023 Sinead Daly, Socialist Party Scotland (CWI)

  On 22 December 2022 the Scottish parliament overwhelmingly passed the Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill. Immediately after the bill was passed the Westminster Tory government undemocratically raised the threat of blocking the legislation. Now they [...]

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  France

  France: Two million demonstrate against Macron’s pension ‘reform’

  January 21, 2023 Cécile Rimboud, Gauche révolutionnaire (CWI France)

  Thursday was been a huge day of mobilization in France. Close to two million people demonstrated across the whole country. In Paris, several metro lines were “striked shut”, and the unions had organized dozens and [...]

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  Ireland North

  Packed meeting in Derry city opposes BBC management plans to close Radio Foyle

  January 20, 2023 Anton McCabe, Derry North West Ireland Branch NUJ, and National Executive Council, NUJ (personal capacity)

  Derry city’s Guildhall, in the north west of Ireland, was packed for a meeting to protest BBC management’s plans to effectively close Radio Foyle. Virtually all 300 chairs laid out were occupied, and there were [...]

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  Britain

  Britain: Hundreds of thousands of workers to strike together on 1 February

  January 19, 2023 Editorial of the Socialist issue 1209 (paper of the Socialist Party, England & Wales)

  The massive vote to strike by education workers in schools in the National Education Union (NEU) is a potential game changer in the strike wave. The NEU is the biggest national union so far to [...]

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  Britain

  Socialist Students groups campaign in solidarity with youth in Sri Lanka

  January 17, 2023 Séamus Smyth, Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales) East Midlands youth organiser

  The Aragalaya (Sinhalese for “struggle”) protests in Sri Lanka, fuelled by a cost-of-living crisis, inspired students and young people across the world. People saw images of masses of protesters taking over the presidential palace and [...]