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  Covid-19 Pandemic

  South Africa: Militarised lockdown against the working class and poor

  April 8, 2020 Shaun Arendse and Weizmann Hamilton, Marxist Workers Party (CWI SA)

  There is growing concern over police and military brutality in the enforcement of South Africa’s twenty-one-day lockdown regulations. Videos have circulated on social media of soldiers beating up and kicking residents in informal settlements, forcing [...]

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  Covid-19 Pandemic

  Sweden’s coronavirus catastrophe: a failure of neo-liberalism, accountability and capitalism

  April 8, 2020 Edmund Schluessel, Sosialistinen Vaihtoehto (CWI in Finland)

  Over five hundred people in Sweden have now died from COVID-19, more than in Norway, Denmark, Finland, and Iceland, combined. Far too late, the Swedish government is slowly planning to implement lockdown of the kind [...]

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  Chile

  Chile: Union bureaucracy attempt to expel a workers’ leader defending shop workers exposed to covid-19

  April 7, 2020 Statement by Vilma Alvarez, a union leader at Jumbo company

  Vilma Alvarez is a supporter of Socialismo Revolucionario (CWI Chile) and a leader of a trade union at the Jumbo supermarket company. The leadership of the union confederation Vilma belongs to, Co-ordinadora de Sindicatos del [...]

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  Covid-19 Pandemic

  Ecuador: Death in paradise – how coronavirus devasted Guayaquil

  April 7, 2020 Andrea Ruiz-Prato

  Up to now, the Ecuadorian port city of Guayaquil has been better-known to the world as a picturesque holiday destination. Its mixture of tropical vegetation, colourful colonial architecture, charming cafes and the extensive walkable waterfront [...]

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  Britain

  Britain: Labour right-backed candidate, Keir Starmer, wins leadership contest

  April 6, 2020 Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales) statement

  Keir Starmer, as was widely predicted, has been elected leader of the Labour Party. He won on the first round with 56.2% of the vote. Almost half a million people voted in the election, and [...]