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  Sri Lanka

  Sri Lanka’s economic and political crisis deepens as covid ravages the country

  July 30, 2021 Siritunga Jayasuriya (Siri), General Secretary of the United Socialist Party (CWI Sri Lanka)

  Since coming to power in November 2019, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s government has gone through a severe crisis. Sri Lanka was once the second most powerful economy in Asia, but now it is falling into the [...]

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  Britain

  Britain: Labour Party expulsions confirm need for new mass workers’ party

  July 29, 2021 Lenny Shail, Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)

  The news that Labour’s national executive committee (NEC) has proscribed, aka expelled, a number of left-leaning groups that have clung desperately onto the Labour Party came as little surprise. Since the resignation of Corbyn, and [...]

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  Tunisia

  Tunisia: President carries out a coup

  July 28, 2021 Gauche Révolutionnaire reporters (CWI France)

  On Sunday 25th July, the president of Tunisia, Kaïs Saied, carried out a coup. This is in a country that has been labelled, “The Arab world’s only democracy”.  He sacked the prime minister, Hichem Mechichi, [...]

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  Mozambique

  Regional Military Intervention will Worsen Mozambique’s Insurgency Crisis

  July 28, 2021 Shaun Arendse, Marxist Workers Party (CWI South Africa)

  The 23 June Summit of the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) agreed to the deployment of a military force to northern Mozambique. This was the belated response of the regional elites to an armed insurgency [...]

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  Australia

  Australian federal government backs the ‘carbon club’ over climate action

  July 27, 2021 Militant Left (CWI Australia) reporter, Perth

  The coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 coming to the shores of Australia in early 2020 certainly came at an opportune time for the Australian government.  At the end of 2019 and the beginning of 2020 (commonly now known [...]