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  Germany

  Germany: Workers need fighting strategy for unions, not ‘partnership’ with bosses

  January 23, 2020 Angelika Teweleit, Sozialistische Organisation Solidarität, Berlin

  Hardly a day goes by in Germany without a new announcement of job cuts, dismissals in car plants and components industry and in companies such as Thyssen-Krupp or Siemens. The planned loss of hundreds of [...]

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  France

  Workers’ struggle in France on the boil

  January 22, 2020 James Ivens, Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales) member and participant in French protests (15-19 January)

  After more than 45 days of strikes and 62 weeks of ‘gilets jaunes’ protests, French workers’ appetite for struggle endures. The trade unions counted 250,000 on the national day of action in Paris on 17 [...]

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  Chile

  After mass protests, the Chilean government calls plebiscite to try to put breaks on demands for real change 

  January 20, 2020 Socialismo Revolucionario (CWI Chile) Statement 

  In relation to the plebiscite that has been called for the 26 April 2020, it is necessary to make clear some issues before marking a Yes or No on the ballot paper. The result of [...]

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  India

  India: General strike success, and missed opportunity

  January 20, 2020 Jagadish Chandra, New Socialist Alternative (CWI in India)

  This year’s planned general strike on January 8th was massive. It broke all previous records in the numbers involved in a united class action in India. The strike was called by ten major trade union [...]

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  Austria

  Austria: Greens enter government in coalition with Conservatives

  January 18, 2020 Laura Rafetseder, Sozialistische Offensive (CWI Austria)

  [The] new government means “combination of fiscal restraint and tax cuts with environmental schemes and hard-line immigration policies” (Financial Times) Early January in Austria saw the Greens and the conservative People’s Party (ÖVP) agree to [...]