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  Bangladesh

  Bangladesh: Stop closure and privatisation of Jute Mills

  July 7, 2020 Solidarity statement

  We give full support to the workers in Bangladesh fighting to stop the closure, and subsequent privatisation, of state-owned Jute Mills. We condemn the arrest of Jute Mills trade union leaders, Nurul Islam and Waliar [...]

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  Britain

  Britain: 75th anniversary of the Attlee Labour government

  July 6, 2020 Tom Baldwin Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)

  The end of World War Two left behind a world in upheaval. Demobilised troops and a war-weary population demanded a better future. Resistance movements in Europe published programmes demanding nationalisation. Workers’ strikes broke out across [...]

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  CWI

  ‘A new era of global capitalist crisis – revolution and counter revolution’

  July 3, 2020 Report of CWI international meeting by Philip Stott (Socialist Party Scotland)

  Leading representatives of the Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI) met online over the weekend, 27/28 June. The International Executive Committee (IEC) meeting was attended by 70 comrades, from CWI sections from across the world. [...]

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  Belarus

  Belarus: State crackdown after wave of protests

  July 2, 2020 Edmund Schluessel (CWI in Finland), and with reports from Belarus

  Belarus saw two days of mass protests during the third week of June as people took to the streets to demand an end to rigged elections. President Alexander Lukashenko, who has ruled the country since [...]

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  Ireland North

  Ireland North: Union democracy under attack from right wing in NIPSA

  July 1, 2020 Tanya Killen, NIPSA activist, and Militant Left (CWI Ireland) member

  The Northern Ireland Public Service Alliance (NIPSA) is the largest trade union in the North of Ireland, did have a strong reputation as a democratic union but the recent actions of NIPSA ruling body, the [...]