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  Covid-19 Pandemic

  ‘Health not profit’ strike wave sweeps Italy

  March 15, 2020 Chris Thomas, CWI

  Italy is in lock-down in the fight against coronavirus. Bars, restaurants and shops are closed, with the exception of supermarkets, pharmacies and newsagents. And yet, under pressure from the bosses’ organisation, Confindustria, workers are still [...]

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  Britain

  Capitalist crisis and coronavirus: Tory Prime Minister Johnson’s budget for the bosses

  March 14, 2020 Statement by the Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)

  British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, won the general election, last December, by trying to pose as a ‘man of the people’. Despite the rhetoric the first budget of his premiership showed clearly that, like all [...]

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  Covid-19 Pandemic

  South Korea shows capitalism has money to respond to coronavirus

  March 14, 2020 Interview with an English teacher in Ulsan, South Korea

  South Korea has been held up as a model by some commentators for its containment of coronavirus. It’s far from perfect, but a rapid supply of resources shows that the capitalists do have the money [...]

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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 [...]