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  Putin sends troops into Ukraine – For workers’ unity against war and capitalism!

  February 24, 2022 CWI Statement

  Russian President Vladimir Putin declared on Thursday, 24 February, that he has ordered a “special military operation” in Ukraine. Socialists and the wider working-class movement must condemn Putin’s military invasion, which will bring the death [...]

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  Uruguay

  Grassroots bank workers mobilise in Uruguay – Appeal for solidarity

  February 23, 2022 Hugo Rodriquez, Socialismo Revolucionario (CWI Chile)

  The Uruguayan public sector bank workers’ union has called for a march to Punta del Este, a bastion of the country’s wealthiest people, on February 25th. A struggle that has been conducted for more than [...]

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  Ukraine

  Putin recognises ‘independence’ of Donetsk and Luhansk

  February 22, 2022 CWI Reporters

  Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has recognised the ‘independence’ of two Moscow-backed breakaway regions in eastern Ukraine. He declared that ‘peace-keeping’ forces will be sent to the territories. Prospects of a revival of talks arising from [...]

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  Kazakhstan

  What lies behind Kazakhstan’s turmoil?

  February 21, 2022 Clare Doyle, from Socialism Today, March 2022 (monthly magazine of the Socialist Party England & Wales)

  The mass revolt in Kazakhstan at the beginning of this year is unprecedented in this vast Central Asian country. But the explosion of anger did not come out of a clear blue sky. In recent [...]

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  History & Anniversaries

  Britain: 1972 miners’ strike – The battle of Saltley Gate

  February 19, 2022 Bill Mullins, Former car worker and picket at Saltley Gates

  Fifty years ago, the miners’ strike for a fairer pay system saw some of the biggest demonstrations of workers’ power in Britain since World War Two. The Tory government, led by Edward Heath, was trying [...]