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  USA

  Inauguration day clashes loom – The US in crisis and need for a socialist alternative

  January 16, 2021 Tony Saunois CWI secretary

  Amid unprecedented events, thousands of supporters of Donald Trump supporters rallied in Washington on 6 January. Hundreds, some armed, then stormed the congress buildings on Capitol Hill in Washington DC. Donald Trump, promising a “wild” [...]

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  Japan

  Japan’s change of prime minister fails to stem government’s problems

  January 15, 2021 Carl Simmons (Kokusai Rentai, CWI Japan)

  2020 was a tempestuous year for Japan, as well as the rest of the world. In August, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe became the longest-serving prime minister in Japanese history. However, it had been clear for [...]

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  Finland

  Finland: Happiest country in the world?

  January 14, 2021 Edmund Schluessel (CWI in Finland)

  Finland has, for the third year in a row, been declared the happiest country in the world in the “World Happiness Report.” Strong unions and a strong welfare state contribute to this ranking, but these [...]

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  World Economy

  Global capitalism at most perilous since 1930s

  January 13, 2021 Robin Clapp, from The Socialist (Issue 1116), the weekly newspaper of the Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)

  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 [...]

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  Lebanon

  Lebanon’s overlapping crises create desperate situation for working class

  January 12, 2021 Iain Dalton

  Like many countries around the world, 2021 has begun with a new lockdown being implemented across Lebanon, until the end of January. This is a result of a dramatic increase in the numbers of Covid [...]