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  History & Anniversaries

  100 years since founding of Communist International; 90 years since Trotsky’s expulsion from Soviet Union

  March 8, 2019 Lenny Shail, from The Socialist (weekly paper of the Socialist Party England & Wales)

  This week saw two important historical anniversaries – the first conference of the Communist (Third) International, held on 6 March 1919, established to help organise Marxist revolutionary forces on an international basis and, after years [...]

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  Britain

  Britain: 35 years since start of heroic Miners’ Strike

  March 8, 2019 Ken Smith, from the Socialist (newspaper of the Socialist Party, CWI England & Wales), first published 13 March 2004

  Thirty five years ago, on 5 March 1984, Yorkshire miners walked out on strike against Tory government plans to impose a massive programme of pit closures. They saw it as the first step to a [...]

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  Women's Struggle

  International Women’s Day: England and Wales – Socialist programme to end women’s oppression

  March 8, 2019 Sarah Sachs-Eldridge, Socialist Party (CWI in England and Wales)

   In the era of austerity and capitalist crisis, women are struggling against their oppression. Women are taking action – marching, striking, getting organised.

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  ARCHIVE | the Socialist Party was the CWI section in the Republic of Ireland until 2019

  International Women’s Day: Belgium – Marches against sexism and austerity

  March 7, 2019 Emily Burns, organiser ROSA

  The 8th of March should be the occasion to bring out the best of traditions of the organised workers’ movement. With the Campaign ROSA, we organise marches against sexism and austerity and participate in different, [...]

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  Canada

  Canada: SNC-Lavalin construction company scandal throws Trudeau government into crisis

  March 7, 2019 Tim Heffernan, Socialist Alternative (CWI Canada)

  For almost a month, the daily front page news for Canadians has been the story of political intrigue at the highest level of government involving, on the one hand, a major multinational, Montreal-based company ensnared [...]