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  Hong Kong

  Hong Kong: Sweeping arrests of activists presage dark period ahead

  January 12, 2021 Clare Doyle, CWI

  Last Wednesday, January 6th, more than a thousand state forces carried out pre-dawn raids on 73 premises in Hong Kong. They arrested 53 activists and politicians for “subversion” under the National Security Law imposed by [...]

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  USA

  Pro-Trump supporters’ attacks on Capitol Hill – A socialist response

  January 11, 2021 Independent Socialist Group (USA) statement

  On January 6th, the Congress of the United States formally certified the results of the Electoral College, which Joe Biden won. On the same day, President Trump gave a speech to a rally outside the [...]

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  Engels

  Engels on the origins of women’s oppression and its relevance to today’s struggles

  January 9, 2021 Christine Thomas

  Continuing our series of articles commemorating the 200 years since the birth of Friedrich Engels, we look at the relevance of his important work, ‘The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State’, and [...]

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  Sweden

  Sweden: Covid devastation as nurses pushed beyond breaking point

  January 9, 2021 Edmund Schluessel (CWI in Finland)

  As 2020 came to a close, the Swedish health care system reached a point many feared. Nurses in Sweden’s hospitals, strained from months of 13-hour shifts and with no end in sight to the rampant [...]

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  Obituary

  Obituary: Jörg Winter – 40 years active in the Marxist movement

  January 8, 2021 Ursel Beck, Stuttgart

  On December 15, 2020, comrade Jörg Winter from Stuttgart, Germany, died at the age of 65. We mourn the loss of our comrade of many years. The nuclear arms build-up at the end of the [...]