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  Britain

  Britain: Labour must resist ‘covid coalition’

  April 2, 2020 Editorial from The Socialist, weekly paper of the Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)

  In the early stages of a war or national emergency, there is often a mood to pull together in the ‘national’ interest, and the idea that ‘party politics’ should be put to one side. An [...]

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  Covid-19 Pandemic

  Scottish government failing over covid-19

  April 1, 2020 Matt Dobson, Socialist Party Scotland (CWI)

  Anger is building at Boris Johnson and his Tory Westminster government over the handling of the Covid-19 pandemic. The lack of widespread testing, hundreds of thousands of workers losing their jobs, the fear over the [...]

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  Covid-19 Pandemic

  Workers mobilise over covid-19 threat, as Northern Ireland Executive divides

  April 1, 2020 CWI Reporter, Belfast

  The Covid-19 pandemic is everywhere exposing the dirty underbelly of modern capitalism. In  Northern Ireland, decades of attacks by Tory and New Labour governments in Westminster, and from local parties, on NHS services, have left [...]

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  Comment & Analysis

  As coronavirus crisis intensifies, class antagonisms deepen

  March 31, 2020 Statement by the International Secretariat of the CWI  

  On the other side of the coronavirus pandemic crisis, things will never be the same again. This will be similar to the situation after the two world wars of the twentieth century. The general situation [...]

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  Britain

  Thirty years since huge London anti-poll tax demonstration

  March 31, 2020 Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales CWI) Reporters

  On 31 March 1990, a massive demonstration surged into central London. It was the culmination of months of organisation and defiance of the Tory government’s hated poll tax by millions of overwhelmingly working-class people. The [...]