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  Comment & Analysis

  Coronavirus plunges capitalism into global turmoil -The need for a socialist alternative

  March 23, 2020 Statement from International Secretariat of the CWI

  Statement from International Secretariat of the CWI 23 March 2020 The outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic has plunged world capitalism and society into an entirely new era of turmoil and upheaval. In country after country, [...]

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  Covid-19 Pandemic

  Coronavirus exposes weaknesses of Japanese capitalism and government

  March 21, 2020 Carl Simmons, (Kokusai Rentai - CWI Japan)

  On Friday 13 March, the Japanese Upper House approved a bill granting Japanese Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe, the power to declare a state of emergency to fight coronavirus. Unfortunately, the two major opposition parties, the [...]

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  Covid-19 Pandemic

  Coronavirus: Belfast City council workers put at risk

  March 21, 2020 Unite the trade union shop steward, Belfast City council

  Many frontline local authority workers, including in Belfast, Northern Ireland, will be asked to maintain essential services throughout the coronavirus crisis. In doing so, they need to remember their first priority is their own survival [...]

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  Britain

  Coronavirus: Socialist planning, not capitalist chaos!

  March 20, 2020 Martin Powell-Davies, Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)

  A newly spreading virus is a danger that can befall any society. The question facing the world today, however, is what kind of society can best meet such a challenge. As the coronavirus pandemic spreads, [...]

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  World Economy

  World Economy: The new crisis and its consequences

  March 19, 2020 Editorial from the April 2020 edition of Socialism Today (monthly journal of the Socialist Party - CWI England & Wales)

  As global markets reel in the face of the developing coronavirus pandemic, it is difficult to see how these events will not be the trigger for a new world capitalist economic downturn, with all the [...]