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  Britain

  Britain: The Shrewsbury pickets, political policing and the state

  July 26, 2021 Paul Heron, from  Socialism Today Issue 250 July-August 2021

  Paul Heron looks at the recent victory in the battle for justice for the Shrewsbury pickets. This was a landmark case from the 1970s in Britain – of political policing against the working class movement.  [...]

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  South Africa

  South Africa: Eyewitness report of community self-defence against rioting and looting

  July 24, 2021 Marxist Workers Party (CWI South Africa) reporters

  On 21 July Marxist Workers Party members visited Zone 3 of Katlehong, Gauteng. We had learned through the media of the brilliant work of residents to defend their community from rioting and looting, in particular, [...]

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  Ireland Republic

  Eurostat figures demonstrate how workers in Ireland are locked out of massive wealth

  July 23, 2021 Ciarán McKenna, Militant Left (CWI Ireland)

  The European Union’s statistics agency – Eurostat – released figures earlier this month demonstrate, in stark terms, how workers in the South of Ireland have been locked out of the massive wealth created here.  Eurostat showed [...]

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  Cuba

  Cuban protests – what do they represent?

  July 22, 2021 Tony Saunois, CWI Secretary

  On 11 July, Cuba was rocked by the largest protests to have taken place since the “Maleconazo” protests that erupted in 1994. The 1994 protests followed the collapse of the former USSR and the abrupt [...]

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  Norway

  Norway: Tenth anniversary of the Utøya Island massacre

  July 22, 2021 Robin Nilsen, CWI Norway

  On the morning of the 22nd July 2011, we all heard on the radio news that a massive bomb had exploded outside of the Regjeringskvartalet, the executive government quarter in Oslo Norway that housed office [...]