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  Fighting Racism

  “You fight capitalism with socialism” – BLM and socialist struggle

  June 13, 2020 Hannah Sell, from The Socialist (newspaper of the Socialist Party - CWI England & Wales)

  The current Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement is the biggest wave of protests against racism since the Civil Rights movement in the 1960s. The most radical leaders of that movement drew the conclusion, as Malcolm [...]

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  Fighting Racism

  USA: Black and white youth rise up against racism

  June 12, 2020 Interview with Independent Socialist Group (USA) protester 

  Emery Addams from the Independent Socialist Group (US) talks about the significance of the mass anti-racist protests shaking the US, outlining the programme and organisation necessary to end racism. This is the biggest anti-racism mobilisation [...]

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  France

  France: 20,000 rally against Paris’s killer gendarmes

  June 12, 2020 Gauche Révolutionnaire (CWI France) Reporters

  Young people and workers have protested across the world. In France, an inquiry verdict on 29 May cleared three gendarmes (military police) of killing 24-year-old black man Adama Traoré. Up to 20,000 people rallied in [...]

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  Covid-19 Pandemic

  “For the world, the blow will be very difficult and very serious,” – Russian oligarch warns about economic consequences of pandemic

  June 11, 2020 Dmitriev Alexandr, CWI Russia

  Anatoly Chubais, the Russian oligarch, Chairman of Rusnano and one of the main initiators of privatisation in the 1990s, warned Forbes magazine recently about the consequences of the pandemic and the global crisis of 2020 [...]

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  Britain

  Black Lives Matter protests sweep Britain: How can the movement win?

  June 10, 2020 Editorial from The Socialist (weekly paper of the Socialist Party - CWI England & Wales)

  “We have outgrown you, despite your best efforts to keep us in the same place. You are in power, but you are outmoded. You’re the old form of human. And the new form is coming [...]