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  Malaysia

  Singapore: As economy declines, governing People’s Action Party losses support 

  August 7, 2020 Yuva, Sosialis Alternatif Malaysia

  The Singapore general election took place on 11 July with eleven parties contesting for 93 Parliamentary seats. The People’s Action Party (PAP), which has ruled for 57 years since 1965 (after Singapore separated from Malaysia), [...]

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  Japan

  75th anniversary of US atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

  August 6, 2020 Berkay Kartav

  Seventy-five years ago, as World War Two was drawing to a close, United States forces dropped two atomic bombs above the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. This is still one of the most deadly [...]

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  Engels

  “What a torch of reason ceased to burn, What a heart has ceased to beat!” – 125 years since the death of Friedrich Engels

  August 5, 2020 Articles by Peter Taaffe and VI Lenin

  Today, 5 August 2020, marks 125 years since the death of Friedrich Engels (28 November 1820 – 5 August 1895). To mark this anniversary, we republish a book review of Engels – A Revolutionary Life, [...]

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  Britain

  From first wave to second? Boris Johnson’s covid failures

  August 5, 2020 Martin Powell-Davies, from The Socialist (weekly paper of the Socialist Party - CWI England & Wales)

  Back in March, when the spread of the coronavirus pandemic was accelerating globally, the Socialist newspaper explained that “a newly-spreading virus is a danger that can befall any society. The question facing the world today, [...]

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  Iran

  Iran: Oil, petro-chemical and heavy equipment workers join sugar workers taking strike action

  August 4, 2020 Lukas Zöbelein, Sozialistische Organisation Solidarität (CWI Germany)

  With a strike involving thousands of Haft Tappeh sugarcane refinery workers about to enter its third month, other significant strikes began in Iran at the start of August. Some were in the oil industry where [...]