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  France

  Empty accolades for health workers, billions for big companies, lay-offs for millions – Macron “managing’ the crisis”

  June 9, 2020 Leïla Messaoudi, Councillor for Petit-Quevilly (Rouen) and a member of Gauche Révolutionnaire (CWI in France)

  After two and a half months, the lockdown is now over in France and it is time to draw a first balance sheet. There is not one single aspect of the way Macron’s government managed [...]

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  CWI

  “All changed, changed utterly ” – A new era of class struggle and capitalist crisis

  June 8, 2020 Statement by the International Secretariat of the CWI

  The words of W.B Yeats, from his poem ‘Easter 1916’, sum up the current world situation: “All changed, changed utterly.” 2020 is the opening of a new era, as we have explained in the previous [...]

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  USA

  USA: What’s next for the anti-racist movement?

  June 7, 2020 T.R. Whitworth Independent Socialist Group, USA

  “In my opinion, the young generation of whites, blacks, browns, whatever else there is, you’re living at a time of extremism, a time of revolution, a time when there’s got to be a change. People [...]

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  China

  China and the fall-out from Covid-19

  June 6, 2020 Clare Doyle, CWI

  Covid-19 recognises no borders. It has killed hundreds of thousands, ravaged economies across the world and is not finished yet. All governments have been put to the test and poured billions into protecting their economies, [...]

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  Obituary

  Ken Douglas – Inspiring national treasurer and steadfast fighter for socialism

  June 5, 2020 Hannah Sell, Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales) general secretary

  The Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales) collectively is grieving deeply the loss to cancer of our much-loved national treasurer, Ken Douglas (22.9.61 to 4.6.20). Since the day he joined us, over 35 years ago, [...]