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  History & Anniversaries

  77th anniversary of detonation of the second atomic bomb

  August 9, 2022 Berkay Kartav, (first published in August 2020)

  As figures from the world military powers raise the threat of the use of ‘tactical’ nuclear arms, with the war in Ukraine and tensions over Taiwan in the background, the 77th anniversary of the second [...]

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  Britain

  Amazon workers talk to CWI about why they took action

  August 8, 2022 Reports from The Socialist (newspaper of the CWI in England & Wales)

  The Socialist (newspaper of the CWI in England & Wales) spoke to Amazon workers who have taken action recently in a struggle for better pay. socialistworld.net Tilbury Socialist Party members stood with ‘John Doe’ (not [...]

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  Britain

  Britain: Workers can win against weak and divided Tories

  August 6, 2022 Editorial of the Socialist issue 1190, weekly paper of the Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)

  As more rail and other strikes take place, Tory Transport Secretary Grant Shapps and would-be Tory prime ministers Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss are threatening even more anti-union laws. On the campaign trail to the [...]

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  History & Anniversaries

  1972 – When dock workers faced down the Tory government

  August 5, 2022 Roger Thomas, Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)

  “Arise Ye Workers” read the banner as five London dockers were carried shoulder high from Pentonville Prison in London. The date was 26 July 1972. Five days earlier, the ‘Pentonville Five’ – Con Clancy, Tony [...]

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  CWI

  Speakers from across the world address CWI London rally

  August 4, 2022 Scott Jones, Socialist Party (England and Wales)

  The Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI) ran a very successful cadre summer school from 29 July to 1 August, in London, with comrades attending from throughout Europe, Latin America, the USA, Asia, and Africa. [...]