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  Britain

  TUC’s 18 June demo must be used to coordinate strikes for pay and workers’ rights

  June 16, 2022 Editorial from The Socialist, weekly paper of the Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)

  Tens of thousands will take to the streets of  London on Saturday 18 June as part of the Trades Union Congress (TUC) demonstration on the cost-of-living crisis; the first mass trade union demonstration for many [...]

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  France

  France: Left alliance vote shows potential for defeating Macron through struggles

  June 16, 2022 Gauche révolutionnaire (CWI in France) reporters

  The first round of the legislative elections saw good votes for the left alliance NUPES [New Ecological and Social People’s Union, headed by Jean-Luc Mélenchon] and reaffirmed the support for Mélenchon in last April’s presidential [...]

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  South Africa

  South African Federation of Trade Unions second congress: Ideological, organisational re-armament of the working class must begin

  June 15, 2022 Weizmann Hamilton, Marxist Workers Party (CWI South Africa)

  The note of optimism and determination of the declaration issued at the end of the South African Federation of Trade Unions (Saftu) Second Congress in May will be greeted with a sense both of relief [...]

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  Iran

  Iran: Cuts, corruption and the campaign for the freedom of political prisoners

  June 14, 2022 Lukas Zöbelein, Sol (CWI Germany)

  Iran has not been at rest since the beginning of 2022. Amongst the protesters were teachers who, under the leadership of the Coordinating Council of Iranian Teachers’ Trade Associations, led a campaign of protests and [...]

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  Spain

  Spanish State: An economy in shambles and youth without a future

  June 13, 2022 Eloi Picrín, CWI

  There is currently a generation of young workers in Spain who have no idea what “prosperity” means. Those who acquired a consciousness of their surroundings after the 2008 financial crash, which in the Spanish State [...]