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  IWD 2021

  South African women and the struggle against gender based violence and covid-19

  March 3, 2021 Sheri Hamilton, Marxist Workers’ Party (CWI South Africa)

  The announcement of the most vicious cuts in social spending since the fall of apartheid, while simultaneously cutting taxes on big business, is a declaration of war against the working class, especially women. The budget [...]

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  IWD 2021

   “I was, I am, I will be” – 150th anniversary of the birth of Rosa Luxemburg

  March 2, 2021 Caspar Loettgers, Mainz (CWI in Germany)

  This year marks the 150th anniversary of the birth of Rosa Luxemburg (5 March), one of the most famous political figures of the last century. For the international workers’ movement, she is renowned as a [...]

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  Women's Struggle

  IWD 2021: Women’s struggles in a time of covid crisis

  March 1, 2021 Clare Doyle, CWI

  A year has passed since the last celebration of working women’s struggle for a better deal in life. What a year of misery, death, and destruction!  But what a groundswell of hostility to the system [...]

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  Turkey

  Economic crisis and attacks on labour conditions in Turkey – link workers’ industrial and political struggles!

  March 1, 2021 Berkay Kartav, Devrimci Sosyalist Sol - CWİ Türkiye

  Even before the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic, the Turkish economy was on the brink of collapse as the country was grappling with currency depreciation and high inflation rates since the 2018 economic crisis. The [...]

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  History & Anniversaries

  How militant trade unionism in Britain defeated the 1971 Industrial Relations Act

  February 27, 2021 Bill Mullins, former senior shop steward in the car industry and industrial organiser of the Socialist Party (CWI)

  Bill Mullins, a former senior shop steward in the auto industry and later industrial organiser of the Socialist Party in Britain, recounts the mighty struggle of shop-floor trade unionists in Britain 50 years ago in [...]