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  Britain

  Tory government feels pressure of cost-of-living crisis

  April 8, 2022 Editorial of the Socialist (issue 1174), weekly paper of the Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)

  Two months ago, there was a rising pile of ‘no-confidence’ letters in Prime Minister Boris Johnson from Tory MPs. Shaken by the Downing Street ‘partygate’ revelations, those MPs felt they had to echo public disgust [...]

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  Britain

  Inflation and falling living standards – symptoms of the profit system in crisis

  April 7, 2022 Hannah Sell, from The Socialist, weekly paper of the Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)

  This year, 2022, is predicted to see the biggest fall in living standards in the UK since 1956. Inflation, according to the Retail Price Index, is already at 8.2% and is expected to rise further [...]

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  Yemen

  Yemen – the other war zone hypocritically downplayed by Western powers

  April 6, 2022 Elaine Brunskill, from The Socialist (weekly paper of the Socialist Party - CWI England & Wales)

  For weeks, the horror of Putin’s brutal invasion of Ukraine has dominated the news. Alongside this carnage, there has also been the ongoing civil war in Yemen. However, this merciless war in Yemen, and all [...]

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  Scotland

  Scotland: Working-class women force Glasgow council into major climbdown over equal pay

  April 5, 2022 Socialist Party Scotland (CWI) reporters

  Working-class women in Glasgow have once again defeated the Scottish National Party (SNP) -led council over equal pay. Faced with a 48-hour strike on 29/30 March by 12,000 low-paid workers, the council leadership embarked on [...]

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  Sri Lanka

  Sri Lanka: People should not be made to pay for the crisis. 

  April 4, 2022 TU Senan, CWI

  As we write protests continue to take place across Sri Lanka the day after protesters defied one of the strongest-ever curfews in place and gathered in many parts of the capital city and across the [...]