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  Thailand

  The struggle for democracy continues in Thailand

  February 8, 2021 Heli Kontio (CWI Finland)

  At the end of December last year, due to the worsened COVID-19 situation, Thailand’s democracy movement, led by students, temporarily ended the street protests that had been going on since last August. The movement has [...]

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  Turkey

  Boğaziçi University students protest appointment of government loyalist as rector

  February 5, 2021 Dilan Kafkas, CWI Türkiye

  Demonstrations have been continuing at Boğaziçi University since January 2021. Students and university staff are resisting the appointment of a government loyalist, Melih Bulu, as rector, by Presidential Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The reason for appointing [...]

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  Germany

  Sol (CWI Germany) members face expulsion threats from Left Party’s youth wing

  February 5, 2021 Tom Hoffman, Sol (Socialist Organisation Solidarity - CWI in Germany)

  Young people in Germany have been hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic and the unfolding economic crisis. For young socialists, these are key issues around which to organise resistance against the various shortcomings of the [...]

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  Myanmar-Burma

  Army coup in Myanmar – For a workers’ led struggle for democracy and socialism!

  February 4, 2021 CWI Malaysia reporters

  For the second night in a row, sounds of the striking pots and pans were heard across the streets of the city of Yangon, in Myanmar. Residents in the main capital are showing their dissatisfaction [...]

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  Britain

  Workers’ rights and safety in Britain: Trade union mobilisation could force more Tory U-turns

  February 3, 2021 Editorial from The Socialist (issue 1119), weekly paper of the Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)

  The Tories have made yet another U-turn. This time over their proposed review of employment laws and regulations post-Brexit. The 12 Labour Party-affiliated unions had issued a statement on ‘the Tory threat to our workplace [...]