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  Britain

  Britain: Workers need a new mass party to defend their interests

  July 1, 2020 Editorial from The Socialist, weekly paper of the Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)

  When Keir Starmer was elected Labour Party leader in Britain, the Socialist Party warned that it represented “a qualitative step in the capitalist class’s campaign to make the Labour Party once again, as it was [...]

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  Lebanon

  Lebanon: Economic and political crisis deepens

  June 29, 2020 Iain Dalton, Socialist Party England & Wales (CWI)

  “Let me speak frankly. The Lebanese do not expect fruitful results from this meeting. In the view of the Lebanese people, this meeting will be like those that came before it. And after, it will [...]

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  Russia

  Russia: Referendum on constitution aims at keeping Putin in power

  June 29, 2020 Alexander Dmitriev, CWI Russia

  On 25 June voting began in the referendum to decide the future fate of Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin. Voting on a long list of amendments to the constitution will last almost a week, ending on [...]

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  Iran

  Iran: Haft Tappeh sugar cane factory workers return to strike action

  June 25, 2020 Lukas Zöbelein, Sozialistische Organisation Solidarität (CWI Germany)

  Since 14 June, workers at the Haft Tappeh sugar cane factory, near the Iranian city of Shush in oil-rich Khuzestan Province, have again taken strike action. Led by their independent trade union, the workers carried [...]

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  Britain

  Tories sinking in Wales but no enthusiasm for Welsh Labour

  June 25, 2020 Dave Reid, Socialist Party Wales

  Mark Drakeford’s Welsh Labour government has made much of the “four nations approach” to tackling the Covid-19 crisis, claiming to plot a different course to the UK’s Tory Westminster government. But the reality is that [...]