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  Iran

  Iran: ‘Joint May Day statement’ a significant coming together of workers’ organisations

  May 28, 2021 Lukas Zöbelein, Sozialistische Organisation Solidarität (CWI Germany)

  Recent days have seen more strikes and protests by workers in Iran, more signs of the general revival of the workers’ movement there since 2017. The May Day statement (below) issued by 15 Iranian workers, [...]

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  Scotland

  Where now for the Scottish independence movement?

  May 27, 2021 Philip Stott, national secretary, Socialist Party Scotland (CWI)

  6 May 2021 saw the election of a majority of Members of the Scottish Parliament (MSPs) committed to a second referendum on Scottish independence. Is an independent Scotland now inevitable? How will Boris Johnson and [...]

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  Israel / Palestine

  Israel-Palestine: A new stage in the struggle

  May 26, 2021 Judy Beishon, from Socialism Today (No.249),  June 2021

  When a ceasefire took hold after eleven days of the war on Gaza by the Israeli military, Gaza’s traumatised population re-emerged onto the streets to survey scenes of terrible devastation. This was the fourth war [...]

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  Covid-19 Pandemic

  Capitalism responsible for stark global covid vaccine inequality

  May 25, 2021 Nick Hart, Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)

  The pandemic hasn’t just exposed the class divide here in the UK. It’s also brought many tensions and inequalities between nations in an already fractured world to the surface. If the rapid spread of the [...]

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  Britain

  The consequences of the Tories’ Brexit

  May 24, 2021 Editorial from May 2021 issue of Socialism Today (monthly magazine of the Socialist Party - CWI England & Wales)

  “Boris Johnson’s withdrawal agreement with the European Union, which would “effectively leave Northern Ireland within the EU’s economic jurisdiction” following the UK’s exit, “will dangerously escalate sectarian tensions; spilling over into Britain too as in [...]