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  China

  CHINA | Growth today, crisis tomorrow?

  November 15, 2021 Hannah Sell, CWI International Secretariat

  At the start of October, the International Monetary Fund slightly downgraded its predictions for global economic growth, citing the continued pandemic and the slow progress in vaccinating the world as the major factors. In addition, [...]

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  India

  Bank workers intensify their struggle

  November 12, 2021 Rashme Madhavan, New Socialist Alternative (CWI India)

  The Indian government had been slowly privatising all the state banks in recent years. While canceling the debt of the super rich and changing various laws and regulations to aid the private banking system the [...]

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  Climate Change & Environment

  Capitalism’s COP26 failure: socialist planning needed!

  November 10, 2021 Adam Harmsworth, from The Socialist, weekly paper of the Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)

  COP26 has seen a set of headline pledges and agreements made between many of the world’s capitalist nations. Sadly, and expectedly, none of them will come close to resolving the climate crisis, even if the [...]

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  Japan

  Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party loses seats but holds onto power

  November 10, 2021 Carl Simmons, Kokusai Rentai (CWI Japan)

  After being in power since 2012, the coalition of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and Komeito (a conservative party linked to a lay Buddhist organisation) retained its majority in the Japanese Lower House election. The ruling [...]

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  USA

  Union members protested working conditions prior to ‘Rust’ film set shooting

  November 9, 2021 Ben Desjarlais, Independent Socialist Group (USA)

  The shooting death of Halnya Hutchins on the set of Alec Baldwin’s film Rust is as heartbreaking as it was preventable. In the weeks leading up to the tragedy, crew members reported multiple misfires with [...]