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  Ireland Republic

  Ten years after the Troika came to Ireland – No return to austerity!

  December 14, 2020 Ciaran McKenna, Militant Left (CWI Ireland)

  It is surely the bitterest of ironies that a mere ten years after the arrival of the Troika in Ireland on 28 November 2010, Irish society faces yet another profound economic crisis. While it remains [...]

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  Engels

  Engels on capitalism’s housing crisis and the socialist solution

  December 12, 2020 Niall Mulholland

  In another article in our series on Friedrich Engels, to commemorate the 200th anniversary of his birth, Niall Mulholland reviews Engels’ pamphlet, The Housing Question, and explains its relevance to today. socialistworld.net Engels published The [...]

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  Covid-19 Pandemic

  Covid vaccines only first step – Fight job losses, austerity and ‘virus’ of capitalism

  December 11, 2020 Jon Dale, Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)

  Covid-19 vaccines in record-breaking times have raised millions of people’s hopes that life will return to normal next year. But speed has also made many worry that corners are being cut in the race to [...]

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  USA

  Right populism after Trump

  December 10, 2020 Robert Bechert, CWI, from the Socialist, weekly newspaper of the Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)

  US President Donald Trump’s election defeat, but with a significantly increased vote, has sharply posed the question of what happens next? It is not simply about who will be the next US President. The fact [...]

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  Malaysia

  Malaysia: Exploitation of migrant workers behind escalation of Covid

  December 9, 2020 Yuva, Sosialis Alternatif (CWI Malaysia)

  News of the spread of Covid-19 in factory hostels across Malaysia has come at a time when Malaysians are facing the highest number of infections since the start of the pandemic in early March this [...]