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  Covid-19 Pandemic

  Scotland: Lockdown exit exposing Tory and Scottish National Party failures

  May 11, 2020 Socialist Party Scotland executive committee

  Like many ruling administrations internationally, the Scottish National Party (SNP)-led Scottish government has seen an increase in approval ratings and support during the Covid-19 pandemic. A recent YouGov poll found 74% of Scots held the [...]

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  Turkey

  İEK Türkiye platformu [Platform of the CWI in Turkey]

  May 10, 2020 İEK Türkiye – Devrimci Sosyalist Sol [CWI Turkey Platform - Turkish language version]

  Koronavirüs ile birlikte dünya ekonomisi 2007/8 finansal krizinden daha da derin bir krize girerken, Türkiye’deki egemen sınıf Erdoğan’ın önderliğinde krizin faturasını işçilere çıkarıyor. Hükümet, çark dönsün patronlar kar yapmaya devam etsin diye işçiler fabrikalarda, madenlerde, [...]

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  Featured

  Turkey: Erdogan’s rule, capitalist crisis and working-class political representation 

  May 10, 2020 The platform of CWI-Turkey (İEK Türkiye – Devrimci Sosyalist Sol)

  As the world economy enters a deeper crisis than that of the financial crisis of 2007/8 with the outbreak of COVID-19, the ruling class in Turkey, led by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, is already [...]

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  China

  China: Trump’s insults fuel rivalry

  May 8, 2020 Clare Doyle, CWI

  Donald Trump’s latest outburst against China over the origins of the coronavirus does not come as a surprise. As deaths from the disease and mass unemployment continue to mount and the US economy faces its [...]

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  Britain

  75th anniversary of ‘VE Day’: No return to the 1930s

  May 8, 2020 Tom Baldwin, Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)

  World War Two saw both civilians and soldiers exposed to the horrors of total war. When it was over there was a determination not to return to the horrors of poverty that had characterised the [...]