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  Britain

  ‘Brexit Day’ – British capitalism enters stormy waters

  January 31, 2020 Robin Clapp, Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)

  Tory Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, elated by his election victory and refreshed from his Caribbean holiday, now faces, in the words of a newspaper journalist, a long-postponed “rendezvous with reality”. Having secured a predictable majority [...]

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  Britain

  Britain: No ‘blank cheque’ for Labour leadership candidates

  January 30, 2020 Editorial from The Socialist (weekly newspaper of the Socialist Party CWI England & Wales)

  The nomination stage of the Labour leadership contest is in full swing, but without the enthusiasm within and beyond the party’s rank and file that marked the surge behind Jeremy Corbyn when he stood for [...]

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  Covid-19 Pandemic

  Coronavirus: capitalism limits response to viral outbreaks

  January 29, 2020 Jon Dale Secretary, Unite union Nottinghamshire Health Branch (from The Socialist - weekly paper of the Socialist Party, CWI England & Wales)

  For the third time in 20 years, a new virus has spread from animals to humans. It began on 29 December in Wuhan, a Chinese city of eleven million, probably crossing to humans at a [...]

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  Ireland Republic

  Low wages, unending inequality, housing and health crisis; backdrop of misery to Ireland’s election

  January 28, 2020 Ciaran McKenna, CWI Ireland

  The general election in Ireland, on 8 February, is a chance for the working class to give their verdict on four years of misrule by this big business government – Fine Gael supported by Fianna [...]

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  Norway

  Norway: Far right walks out of coalition government

  January 28, 2020 Robin Nilsen, CWI Norway

  The Progress Party (FrP) – a right-wing populist party – has pulled out of Norway’s “blue-green” minority government of four parties. On the NRK national television news programme on Monday, 20 January, the FrP announced [...]