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  Britain

  Britain: Outpouring of anger and grief over killing of Sarah Everard

  March 12, 2021 A statement by Socialist Women in the Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)

  Grief, shock and an outpouring of anger have been unleashed by the appalling abduction and murder of Sarah Everard, in London, earlier this week. Her killing has shone a spotlight on the extent of violence, [...]

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  Argentina

  Argentina: The struggle that won abortion rights

  March 12, 2021 Patricio Guzmán, Socialismo Revolucionario (CWI in Chile)

  On December 30, 2020, the Argentine Senate voted in favour of a law legalizing free abortion previously approved in the Chamber of Deputies. The approval was resolved with 38 votes in favour, 29 against and [...]

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  Britain

  Covid crisis one year on

  March 12, 2021 Jon Dale, first published in Socialism Today, monthly magazine of the Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)

  The first UK death from Covid-19 was recorded on 2 March 2020. Twelve months and over 120,000 deaths later, most people have been through greater upheavals than since the second world war. The UK has [...]

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  Catalonia

  Catalonia – the struggle against repression and need for a socialist alternative

  March 11, 2021 Ross Saunders (England and Wales Socialist Party/CWI))

  Weeks of protests against the jailing of rapper Pablo Hasél have rocked Catalonia and other parts of the Spanish state, becoming a lightning rod for the anger of a generation whose lives have hit a [...]

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  IWD 2021

  Women and covid in Tory-run Britain

  March 11, 2021 Elaine Brunskill, Socialist Party (England and Wales), CWI

  On International Women’s Day socialists salute the struggles undertaken by working-class women, both past and present, we also prepare for future struggles. We salute the 1917 heroic struggle of women textile strikers from the working-class [...]