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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, [...]

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  Sports

  Olympic ‘success’ masks cuts and inequality in sport

  August 17, 2021 Lenny Shail, from The Socialist, newspaper of the Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)

  Every Olympics reflects the sad contradiction of the world we live in, but Tokyo 2020 took this to a whole new level. On the one hand, millions of people enjoyed and were inspired by the [...]

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  Afghanistan

  Kabul falls: A devastating blow to the US and Western imperialism – Afghans’ suffering continues under Taliban

  August 16, 2021 Niall Mulholland, CWI

  On Sunday 15 August, the Taliban reached the capital of Kabul, forcing the US-backed government of Ashraf Ghani from power. Thousands of residents tried desperately to board planes to flee the hard-line Islamic force. After [...]

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  Algeria

  Fires rage throughout Algeria

  August 16, 2021 Mina Boukhaoua, Gauche Revolutionnaire (CWI in France)

  Once again, the Algerian people are left to fend for themselves. Since Monday, 9 August, more than seventy fires have raged throughout Algeria, particularly in Kabylia, where the regions of Tizi-Ouzou and Bejaia are in [...]

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  Afghanistan

  Taliban closes in on Kabul

  August 14, 2021  Niall  Mulholland, CWI 

  The Taliban are sweeping across Afghanistan, taking one provincial capital after another. Despite over $80bn spent on “security assistance” from the US, since 2002, along with an annual massive military budget, the Afghan army has [...]