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  Climate Change & Environment

  COP26: Socialist change to end the climate crisis

  July 11, 2021 Oisin Duncan, Socialist Party, Scotland

  An unprecedented heatwave in Canada and the US Pacific north west has left hundreds dead and caused destructive wildfires. Extreme weather events like this are consistent with global heating producing climate change. However, ‘big energy’, [...]

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  Britain

  Britain: Batley & Spen by-election- Another condemnation of Starmer’s New Labour

  July 10, 2021 Editorial of The Socialist, weekly paper of the Socialist Party (CWI England and Wales) – Issue 1141

  Labour managed to narrowly hold onto to Batley and Spen in the parliamentary by-election on 1 July, scraping in by 323 votes. The Labour leadership is sighing with relief. In reality, however, this result is [...]

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  Kazakhstan

  Kazakhstan: Nur Otan regime attacks peaceful protest

  July 8, 2021 Letter of protest from Campaign Kazakhstan

  The Committee for a Workers’ International has received from a group of left activists in Kazakhstan known as ‘Red Yurt’ the following account of a vicious attack on a demonstration in Almaty and an appeal [...]

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  Lebanon

  Lebanon – new stage of the crisis – what way forward for workers and youth

  July 7, 2021 Iain Dalton, Socialist Party England & Wales

  Over the last year it seems as if just when all possible descriptions have been exhausted for the deteriorating social, economic and political crisis in Lebanon, a new downward turn in the situation develops. The [...]

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  Iran

  Iran: Oil and gas workers strikes greets new president

  July 7, 2021 Robert Bechert, Committee for a Workers’ International, CWI

  Almost immediately after last month’s Iranian presidential election, a national strike began in the country’s strategically important oil, gas and petrochemical sector and is still continuing. Organised from below through unofficial bodies, this strike has [...]