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British judge rules against Julian Assange’s extradition but refuses bail

January 7, 2021 Niall Mulholland

The WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, won a partial victory in his long battle to avoid extradition from Britain to the US. District Judge Baraister, at [...]
Ireland Republic

Protests follow police fatal shooting of George Nkencho in Dublin suburb

January 6, 2021 Carah Daniel, Militant Left (CWI Ireland)

George Nkencho, a 27-year-old Black man, was killed by the Gardaí (Irish police) outside his home in Blanchardstown, a suburb of Dublin, on 30 December [...]
Britain

Britain: Third lockdown after Tories U-turn over schools

January 5, 2021 Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales) Reporters

We can’t believe a word this Tory government says. We can’t trust a thing it does. Going into lockdown 3, working-class people can only rely [...]
Scotland

Scotland’s drug-related deaths rate highest in Europe

January 5, 2021 Lynda McEwan, Socialist Party Scotland (CWI)

Eighteen months after the Scottish National Party government declared a public health emergency to tackle shocking drug deaths in Scotland, new figures for 2019, released [...]
US

USA: Amazon development approved by City of Worcester, but not by community

January 4, 2021 Elisabeth Wichser and Claire Bayler, Independent Socialist Group (US)

On Wednesday, December 30th, the Worcester Planning Board held their second online meeting about turning the defunct Greendale Mall into an Amazon warehouse. Of the two [...]
Britain

Britain: Covid and Brexit expose crisis of capitalism and need for socialism

December 31, 2020 Hannah Sell, Socialist Party (CWI) general secretary

The world was united in misery in 2020. Too many deaths from the pandemic, job losses, pay cuts and poverty were the experience in virtually [...]

Global capitalism at most perilous since 1930s

January 13, 2021

For over a year, the Covid-19 pandemic has wreaked havoc across the globe, causing over two million deaths and unleashing enormous economic and social crises. 2021 has ushered in new lockdowns in the UK, Germany […]

Super-rich tax evasion costs equivalent of thirty four million nurses worldwide

December 15, 2020

Around £320 billion is lost annually to corporate tax abuse and private tax evasion, the equivalent of nearly 34 million nurses’ salaries, according to the Tax Justice Network. Poorer countries are most affected, with tax […]

Worldwide capitalist crisis deepens – step up the fight for socialism

October 7, 2020

A decade ago, following the worldwide financial crash, a Financial Times editorial congratulated capitalism on a bit of luck that “the left” was “missing in action in what should have been its finest hour. In […]