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  Covid-19 Pandemic

  Italy on lockdown: lack of resources and democracy causes panic

  March 14, 2020 Interview with a teacher in Bologna

  With confirmed coronavirus cases in the thousands, the government of Italy has placed the entire country on lockdown. Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte first quarantined 16 million of the country’s 60 million population in infected ‘red [...]

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  CWI

  Statement of unification in political solidarity between the Independent Socialist Group (ISG) in the United States and the Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI)

  March 13, 2020 socialistworld.net

  A series of discussions with members of the International Secretariat (IS) of the CWI and the membership of the Independent Socialist Group (ISG) in the US has resulted in a unanimous vote of the ISG [...]

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  USA

  How can Trump be ousted from the White House

  March 12, 2020 Hannah Sell, Socialist Party general secretary

  Written on 09/03/2020 for The Socialist – Weekly paper of the Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales). Sanders faces uphill struggle to win Democratic Party nomination. Working class must have an independent political voice. The [...]

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  Britain

  Coronavirus: International cooperation needed, not capitalist competition

  March 11, 2020 Jon Dale, from The Socialist, weekly paper of the Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)

  Nine weeks after the first Covid-19 coronavirus patient was identified in Wuhan it had spread to 98 countries. This is much faster than the 2003 Sars coronavirus outbreak, which eventually spread to 37 countries. However, [...]

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  Britain

  Coronavirus infects world economy

  March 10, 2020 Editorial from The Socialist, weekly paper of the Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)

  The biggest one-day fall in stock markets since the financial crisis; an oil price war between Saudi Arabia and Russia; and the fastest drop in the cost of oil for 30 years. The impact of [...]