8 September 2020

Socialist Party Wales: US - Trump, coronavirus, capitalism, and the presidential race

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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

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20 May 2020

Trump, coronavirus, capitalism, and the presidential race

Trump's administration has still failed to mobilise an effective response to the pandemic

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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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6 May 2020

US: Trump's public health cuts have condemned thousands worldwide

More people in the US died from Covid-19 in three months than in nine years of the US armed forces' Vietnam War. The US private healthcare system has been shockingly exposed, writes Jon Dale, secretary, Unite union Nottinghamshire NHS Branch (personal capacity).

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22 April 2020

US private healthcare system in meltdown

Like in the UK, the coronavirus pandemic in the USA has resulted in the postponement or cancellation of non-urgent surgery in hospitals

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21 April 2020

Coronavirus news in brief

As the number of unemployed workers applying for benefits rises to 22 million due to the coronavirus crisis, reactionary US president Donald Trump is determined to end the country's health lockdown measures, which he sees as undermining his chances of a second term in office

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8 April 2020

Amazon workers threaten revolution!

"And to Mr Bezos my message is simple. I don't give a damn about your power. You think you're powerful? We're the ones that have the power."

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1 April 2020

As coronavirus crisis intensifies, class antagonisms deepen

After the pandemic crisis, things will never be the same again. This will be similar to the situation after the two world wars of the 20th century.

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18 March 2020

United States: private healthcare exposed as Trump throws money at markets

Capitalism and the political duopoly of the Democratic and Republican parties are to blame for the US's incompetent response to Covid-19

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11 March 2020

How can Trump be ousted from the White House?

The turmoil in the US Democratic primary battles reflects all of the tensions in US society.

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5 February 2020

Israel/Palestine: Trump 'peace plan' promises further conflict

The recent 'deal' announced by US President Donald Trump and enthusiastically endorsed by Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was billed as a 'Middle East peace plan'. But as the Economist journal wrote: "As a blueprint for a two-state solution it was dead on arrival".

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29 January 2020

Trump's trashing of the environment - Dump the capitalist profit system!

At the recent World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, US president Donald Trump attacked those calling for meaningful action to halt catastrophic, capitalist-induced climate change as "prophets of doom".

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15 January 2020

Renewed protests shake Iranian leaders

A wave of anger over what is seen as the regime's lying and incompetence - after the tragic downing of a Ukrainian passenger jet - has sparked off a third round of mass protests in Iran in just over three years.

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8 January 2020

Suleimani's assassination - Middle East thrown into turmoil

Shockwaves went around the world at the news of Trump's decision to assassinate Suleimani

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8 January 2020

Trump attacks Iran - London protest: We need workers' action against war and austerity

Socialist Party members responded to the call to oppose Trump's drone strike on Iranian general Qasem Soleimani and the ratcheting up to war on Saturday 4 January.

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27 November 2019

Trump and Tories are a threat to environment

Donald Trump will once again be met by protests in London on 3 December

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10 October 2019

Trump gives green light to Turkey to attack Kurds

Turkey has launched a military assault on Kurdish areas in north Syria

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9 October 2019

Trump, impeachment and the need for an independent workers' party

Nancy Pelosi, the Democrat speaker of the House of Representatives, has announced the beginning of an impeachment process against President Trump.

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2 October 2019

Egypt: Street protests challenge Trump's favourite dictator

Street protests in Cairo and several other Egyptian cities broke out on 20 and 21 September. Although only involving dozens or a few hundred, at first, they grew in numbers and spread to other cities.

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