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  Covid-19 Pandemic

  United States: Private healthcare exposed as Trump throws money at markets

  March 19, 2020 Jacob Bilsky, Independent Socialist Group (United States)

  The coronavirus pandemic has laid bare the inadequacies of capitalism internationally, and the problems with private healthcare in the United States, in particular. After months of the corporate media blaming ‘socialism’ for food and consumer [...]

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  France

  Gauche Révolutionnaire (CWI) candidate elected in French local elections

  March 18, 2020 Gauche Révolutionnaire (CWI France) statement (abridged)

  On 15 March, Leïla Messaoudi of Gauche Révolutionnaire (CWI France), was elected to the local council of Petit-Quevilly in the city of Rouen, where she has lived for 14 years and worked for 23 years. [...]

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  Covid-19 Pandemic

  France: Behind the coronavirus health crisis, a crisis of the capitalist way of organising society

  March 18, 2020 Statement by Gauche Revolutionnaire (CWI France)

  “We are at war!” President Emmanuel Macron declared in his speech to the nation on the evening of Monday, 16 March. It came just one day after less than a third of voters turned out [...]

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  Britain

  Coronavirus – A workers’ charter to tackle the crisis

  March 17, 2020 Socialist Party (England and Wales section of the CWI)

  The following 'workers' charter' to deal with the coronavirus crisis and workplace related issues, is produced by Socialist Party (England & Wales section of the CWI). The charter outlines a fighting programme for the current [...]

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  Covid-19 Pandemic

  Lebanon defaults – A new stage of the country’s economic crisis

  March 16, 2020 Iain Dalton, CWI

  A new stage of the economic crisis in Lebanon was reached on Monday 9 March, as the state defaulted on a £1.2bn euro-bond – the first default in the country’s history. This debt will prove [...]