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  Britain

  Britain: Corbynism three years on

  October 22, 2018 Peter Taaffe, Socialist Party (CWI in England & Wales) general secretary

  The Tory government hangs by a thread. Its disastrous Brexit policy threatens to blow it apart and widespread desperation and anger at seemingly endless austerity could erupt at any moment. There’s still time, argues PETER [...]

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  Kazakhstan

  Kazakhstan: Freed political prisoner, Vadim Kuramshin, determined to fight on

  October 22, 2018 Clare Doyle, CWI

  On 16 August this year, after a term of six and a half years in Kazakhstan’s nightmare penal system, human rights lawyer, Vadim Kuramshin, walked free. His first words to the Committee for a Workers’ [...]

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  Quebec

  Québec election: Right wing CAQ victory but Québec Solidaire rising

  October 20, 2018 Bruno G. (Alternative Socialiste, Québec), translated by Martin LeBrun (Socialist Alternative Canada)

  There is no reason to celebrate the election of a Coalition Avenir Québec (CAQ) majority government. Not since Maurice Duplessis’ rule has there been broad electoral support for a political party that is both intolerant [...]

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  Germany

  Bavarian elections and huge #unteilbar anti-racist demonstration – a weekend of German history

  October 20, 2018 Sascha Staničić

  Much of the German media is understandably discussing the “historical event” that took place last weekend – last Sunday’s regional elections in Bavaria. The decline of both the CSU (Bavarian counterpart of Merkel’s Christian-Democrat CDU) [...]

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  Britain

  Britain: Corbyn must fight for a workers’ Brexit

  October 17, 2018 Editorial from The Socialist (weekly paper of the Socialist Party England & Wales)

  If a variant of British Prime Minister Theresa May’s Chequers proposal eventually becomes a Brexit deal, it will mean Britain remaining subject to much of the EU’s austerity-promoting and privatising neoliberalism. On the other hand, [...]