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  Finland

  Finland: New lockdown but no new ideas coming from government

  February 26, 2021 Edmund Schluessel, CWI-Finland

  Finland’s government made the surprise announcement of a new lockdown on 25 February in response to spiking rates of COVID infections in the capital region and the dominance in that part of the country of [...]

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  Scotland

  Scottish Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition election campaign launched

  February 25, 2021 CWI

  On Saturday 20 February, the Scottish Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC) conference agreed on an election manifesto for the Scottish elections, set to be held in May 2021. More than 40 attendees from around [...]

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  Britain

  Keir Starmer’s ‘big speech’ marks a clear return to New Labour

  February 24, 2021 Editorial from The Socialist (Issue 1122), weekly paper of the Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)

  Labour Party leader Keir Starmer’s speech, supposedly setting out his vision for Britain, did nothing to counter the criticism that he is dull. It contained virtually no policy proposals. Nonetheless, it played another role, more [...]

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  India

  The historic farmers’ struggle in India – What way forward?

  February 23, 2021 Youvraj, New Socialist Alternative (CWI), Pune

  The massive peasant protest of recent months, anchored around India’s capital, Delhi, with wider support across the country, is historic. It is the first time in the seven years of Modi rule that any action [...]

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  Malaysia

  Malaysia’s Emergency Order widely seen as pretext by ruling party to hold onto power

  February 22, 2021 Yuva Balan, Sosialis Alternatif (CWI Malysia)

  The political turmoil in Malaysia, which has lasted for almost a year, has taken a new turn following the Emergency Order declared by Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin on 12 January. Although the sudden increase in [...]