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  Ireland Republic

  Ireland: Upsurge in strikes, and a bosses’ lockout of workers

  November 21, 2019 Ciarán McKenna, SIPTU Education Sector (personal capacity), and CWI Ireland

  The year, 2019 has, so far, been marked by a relative resurgence in industrial action by workers in the South of Ireland. In 2018, there were 4,340 strike action days across all sectors of the [...]

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  Britain

  Britain: High Court blocks Royal Mail workers’ strike action

  November 20, 2019 From The Socialist, weekly paper of the Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)

  The ruling by the High Court against the Communication Workers Union (CWU) voids its national strike ballot in Royal Mail. It is a massive attack on the union, its postal worker members, and the whole [...]

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  Sri Lanka

  Sri Lanka: Presidential election sees return of dictatorial Rajapaksa clan

  November 18, 2019 TU Senan, CWI

  The extremely polarised presidential election in Sri Lanka has resulted in victory for Gotabaya c. As Defence Minister under the dictatorial president, his brother, Mahinda Rajapaksa, Gotabaya ordered the bloody genocide at the end of [...]

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  Chile

  Notes from Chile

  November 18, 2019 Tony Saunois, CWI, Santiago

  All of Chile’s political parties have signed up to the misnamed, “The Pact for social peace and a new constitution,” with the exception of the Communist Party, which has vacillated on the issue. The Chilean [...]

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  Britain

  Britain: Attacks show elite fear a Corbyn election win

  November 16, 2019 Editorial from The Socialist (weekly paper of the Socialist Party, CWI England & Wales)

  A study into the press coverage of Jeremy Corbyn, Labour’s left leader, in 2015 by the London School of Economics media department has found, unsurprisingly, that is was overwhelmingly biased against him. Of all the [...]