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  Scotland

  SNP and Scottish Greens governing deal will not deliver for workers

  August 24, 2021 Statement from Socialist Party Scotland (CWI)

  The ruling Scottish National Party (SNP) and Scottish Greens have agreed to form a de-facto coalition at Holyrood, the seat of the Scottish parliament. For the first time since the parliament was established in 1999, [...]

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  Trotsky

  Leon Trotsky – A Revolutionary Whose Ideas Couldn’t Be Killed

  August 23, 2021 socialistworld.net

  This year marks the 81st anniversary of the assassination of the outstanding socialist revolutionary, Leon Trotsky, by an agent of Stalin, on 21 August 1940. Last year, the CWI published a new book on his [...]

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  Nigeria

  Nigeria: Comrade Omomeewa, student leader and socialist campaigner, killed by armed assailants

  August 20, 2021 Statement from Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI Nigeria) website

  Tragically, a CWI comrade in Nigeria, Nurudeen Alowonle a.k.a Omomeewa, was murdered in Lagos, late on 18 August. It is not clear why comrade Omomeewa, along with a supporter who was wounded and is now [...]

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  Soviet Union

  August 1991: Revolution and counter-revolution in the Soviet Union

  August 19, 2021 From the CWI archives (September 1991)

  “1991 marked a turning point…We have entered a more disturbed period in world history, marked by sharper inter-imperialist rivalries and a deepening capitalist crisis.” (The Collapse of Stalinism) In 1991, the world watched as the [...]

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  Soviet Union

  30 years since aborted coup in Soviet Union

  August 18, 2021 Clare Doyle, CWI

  It is thirty years since an ill-fated coup was launched against Mikhail Gorbachev, president of what was still known as the Soviet Union (USSR). It was over in three days. By the end of 1991, [...]