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  History & Anniversaries

  A new world order: global reconstruction after World War Two

  May 16, 2020 Robin Clapp, from The Socialist (weekly paper of the Socialist Party - CWI England & Wales)

  During the Covid-19 crisis, many commentators have talked about a ‘new Bretton Woods’ and the need for post-crisis international capitalist cooperation and reconstruction. War and global crises led to the reconstruction of global relations after [...]

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  Covid-19 Pandemic

  New era of capitalist turmoil and social upheaval opens – only a socialist alternative offers a way forward

  May 15, 2020 Statement by the International Secretariat of the CWI

  The corona crisis has entered a new phase, in terms of health, the economy and geopolitical relations. It has confirmed the main trends outlined in previous statements produced by the CWI. A new era of [...]

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  Britain

  Pandemic shortages caused by capitalist market – socialist planning is the alternative

  May 14, 2020 Iain Dalton Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales) national committee

  With planning, personal protective equipment (PPE), ventilators, and other key products should have been easy to provide. Yet as each day goes by, the scale of the government’s unpreparedness for the Covid-19 crisis becomes more [...]

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  Britain

  Britain: Tories put profit before lives

  May 13, 2020 Editorial from The Socialist, weekly paper of the Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)

  “Meet the new messaging: same as the old messaging. Only even vaguer and more confusing. Not so much 15 minutes of TV fame as uncomfortably like watching someone have a breakdown in front of you. [...]

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  Covid-19 Pandemic

  Desperate economic situation leads to renewed protests across Lebanon

  May 12, 2020 Iain Dalton, Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)

  After a pause for a little over a month with the covid-19 lockdown, new protests have erupted in Lebanon, as the situation for workers has become desperate. Unemployment has reached 30%, while hyperinflation is worsening, [...]