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  History & Anniversaries

  100 years since civil war erupted in Ireland

  August 20, 2022 Niall Mulholland, CWI

  This summer marks the 100th anniversary of the start of the ‘civil war’ in Ireland, which saw the final stages of an extraordinary decade of social and national revolutionary and counter-revolutionary movements. A split among [...]

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  Britain

  Britain: Rail workers take industrial action over jobs, pay, pensions and conditions

  August 19, 2022 Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales) members in the RMT

  Around 50,000 RMT members will take further strike action this month in our disputes over jobs, pay, pensions and conditions. On the mainline, members working for 14 Train Operating Companies (TOCs) and Network Rail (NR) [...]

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  Nigeria

  ‘A cry for justice’ – one year since the murder of Comrade Nurudeen Alowonle, a.k.a Omomeewa

  August 18, 2022 Statement by the Education Rights Campaign (ERC) Nigeria

  Thursday 18 August 2022 makes it exactly one year that Comrade Nurudeen Alowonle, a.k.a Omomeewa, was brutally murdered. Until his unfortunate death, comrade Omomeewa was a leading student activist at the Lagos State University (LASU) [...]

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  South Africa

  Marikana 10 years on – Historical significance of uprising of South African mineworkers

  August 18, 2022 Weizmann Hamilton, Marxist Workers Party (CWI in South Africa)

  There can be no tribute more fitting to the martyrs of Marikana than the South African Federation of Trade Unions’ planned National Shut Down on 24 August 2022 which is attracting support across the workers’ movement. A [...]

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  Ukraine

  Six months of war in Ukraine: Devastation in whose interests?

  August 17, 2022 Judy Beishon, CWI

  Thousands of civilians and tens of thousands of troops killed, a vast number injured, and nearly 13 million people displaced from their homes – this is the terrible outcome of the first six months of [...]