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  Covid-19 Pandemic

  EU and UK ‘vaccine wars’ underline failure of capitalist governments to deal with pandemic

  February 2, 2021 Niall Mulholland, CWI

  The European Commission has been forced into a humiliating climb-down following its attempts to control exports of the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine, which threatened a ‘vaccine hard border’ in Ireland. The EU’s threat to stop vaccines [...]

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  Russia

  Heavy state repression fails to stop second wave of protests in Russia

  February 1, 2021 Max Koshkin, St Petersburg

  On 20 August, last year, seasoned anti-corruption campaigner Alexei Navalny became seriously ill on a flight from Tomsk to Moscow, quickly falling into a coma. The plane made an emergency landing and four days later [...]

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  Scotland

  Scottish National Party’s ‘indyref2 roadmap’ no substitute for a mass movement and socialist policies

  January 29, 2021 Statement from Socialist Party Scotland (CWI)

  The Scottish National Party (SNP)-led government’s latest ‘road map’ towards a second independence referendum for Scotland has been unveiled. Boris Johnson’s Westminster government has also launched a five-step plan to save the union. Battle lines [...]

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  Ireland North

  Decades of state underfunding cause wastewater pollution crisis at Northern Ireland Water

  January 29, 2021 Councillor Donal O'Cofaigh, Militant Left (CWI Ireland)

  Northern Ireland is the only region in the UK where the water service has not yet been privatised. That fact largely reflects the strong campaign fought by the trade union movement, in many cases led [...]

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  Nigeria

  Nigeria: Worsening conflicts between herdsmen and farmers, and amongst ethnic groups

  January 28, 2021 Peluola Adewale, Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM - CWI in Nigeria)

  This year has seen a further intensification of conflicts and clashes, in different parts of Nigeria, between herdsmen and farmers in some areas and different ethnic groups in others. This has added to the sense [...]