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30 September 2020
Trump's failure over western US wildfires
On 24 July, lightning sparked the first fires of what would become one of the worst wildfire seasons in US history
30 September 2020
A self-declared dollar billionaire US president pays $750 in federal income tax a year, whereas the average US worker pays $8,196 a year in income taxes. Who says capitalism is unfair?
30 September 2020
US: Police escape justice over Breonna Taylor killing
The failure of a grand jury to charge police with the murder of Louisville black medical worker Breonna Taylor has reignited anti-racist protests in the USA and throughout the world.
23 September 2020
The Times and the Mail report the prime minister is "subdued" and "moody," due to struggling for money
2 September 2020
Trotsky online rally - watched across the world
Over 6,000 people have watched our rally - Leon Trotsky: Why couldn't his idea be killed? - commemorating the 80th anniversary of his assassination. It was organised by the Committee for a Workers' International
19 August 2020
Yorkshire: Celebrating the life and ideas of Leon Trotsky
Yorkshire Socialist Party held a political education meeting on Zoom on the ideas of Leon Trotsky, and the relevance and influence of his work today.
19 August 2020
75 years since the publication of Animal Farm: From 'two legs bad' to 'two legs better'
What does Orwell's fable actually say about revolution?
19 August 2020
New book: Leon Trotsky - A Revolutionary Whose Ideas Couldn't Be Killed
New publication from Socialist Books. Leon Trotsky - A Revolutionary Whose Ideas Couldn't Be Killed is a collection of articles from the Committee for a Workers International (CWI).
19 August 2020
80th anniversary of Leon Trotsky's assassination
A revolutionary whose ideas and methods retain their validity
5 August 2020
Cuba: Covid-19 and the 60-year-old embargo
Cuba has one of the lowest Covid-19 death rates in the world - 0.8 per 100,000, compared to 67 in the UK and 44.1 in the US
5 August 2020
80 years since the murder of Leon Trotsky rally
The global economic crisis and the pandemic is causing mass misery for millions around the world not seen since the 1930s.
22 July 2020
Iran: Renewed wave of protests and strikes
A brief attempt to intimidate the thousands of Haft Tappeh sugar cane workers who have been on strike since 14 June (see 'Haft Tappeh sugar cane factory workers return to strike action' on socialistworld.net) was pushed back
22 July 2020
100 years since the foundation of the Communist Party of Great Britain
World War One - the result of capitalist nations' rivalry - led to the slaughter, on an industrial scale, of the working classes internationally
24 June 2020
Lessons from the Black Panthers
The Black Panther Party marked the high point of the Civil Rights movement - what are the lessons for today?
10 June 2020
Capitalism = racism: "You fight capitalism with socialism"
The current Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement is the biggest wave of protests against racism since the Civil Rights movement in the 1960s
3 June 2020
USA - another cop killing of unarmed black man sparks widespread protests
On 25 May, police in Minneapolis choked George Floyd, an unarmed black man, who subsequently died. His death was disturbingly reminiscent of the NYPD killing of Eric Garner in 2014.
3 June 2020
Socialism Today special issue: Lessons from the Corbyn experience
In his recent announcement that he was standing down as leader of Momentum, Jon Lansman claimed that "hundreds of thousands of socialists" have "transformed Labour into a people-powered mass movement", and that "the party was brought back to its roots"
20 May 2020
Trump, coronavirus, capitalism, and the presidential race
Trump's administration has still failed to mobilise an effective response to the pandemic
13 May 2020
The Spanish Flu of 1918 and how it "fanned the flames of revolt"
Laura Spinney's book on the 1918 flu pandemic, first published in 2017, is now being widely read
6 May 2020
Trump puts profit before safety (again)
US president Donald Trump has invoked a 1950s Korean War-era piece of legislation to re-open meat processing plants, closed because of high rates of coronavirus infections among their workforces
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