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  Far Right

  Greek workers and socialists celebrate convictions of Golden Dawn fascists

  October 15, 2020 Carah Daniel, Militant Left (CWI Ireland)

  On 7 October, after a trial lasting five-and-a-half years, the neo-Nazi organisation Golden Dawn was found guilty of being ‘a criminal organisation’. Outside the court in Athens, 15,000 anti-fascist protesters celebrated the news, displaying slogans [...]

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  Britain

  Britain: Unite union votes to make cuts to affiliation fee to Labour Party

  October 15, 2020 Editorial from The Socialist (weekly paper of the Socialist Party - CWI England & Wales)

  Unite the union’s executive council has voted to cut its affiliation fee to the Sir Keir Starmer-led Labour Party by 10% – the equivalent of 55,000 affiliated members. It is reported that the BFAWU (bakers’ [...]

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  Africa

  #EndSWAT: Outrage in Nigeria at government trick: Send solidarity messages to YRC

  October 14, 2020 Youth Rights Campaign, Nigeria

  Anger at replacement of hated SARS police unit by Special Weapons and Tactics (Swat) units A renewed tidal wave of anger swept Nigeria after the police chief, Mohammed Adamu, announced that the now disbanded brutal, [...]

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  South Africa

  South Africa: Struggle for permanent jobs continues

  October 13, 2020 Marxist Workers Party reporters

  On the 12th of October, workers on the ANC government’s slave-labour Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP) continued their struggle for permanent jobs and a living wage. Hundreds of EPWP workers took part in a day [...]

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  Ireland North

  Ireland North: Efforts to counter Covid pandemic undermined by profit motive

  October 13, 2020 Councillor Donal O'Cofaigh, Militant Left (CWI Ireland)

  When the Covid-19 virus first broke in Northern Ireland, workers were once again told that ‘we are all in this together’. It is no more true today than during the 2008 Bankers’ Crisis where capitalist [...]