23 September 2020

A day in the life of a salon worker

I work in a salon in Cardiff. It was bad before the pandemic began, and some employers are using the crisis to either drag more work out of their staff for little to no more rewards, or to cut hours, cut

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23 September 2020

'FinCEN Files' expose rampant financial corruption: nationalise the banks!

The intimate connections between organised crime, high finance and the capitalist state have been exposed

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23 September 2020

News in brief

The Times and the Mail report the prime minister is "subdued" and "moody," due to struggling for money

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8 September 2020

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

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2 September 2020

Tate strike: "Coronavirus - no reason to fire us!"

Striking Tate workers in the PCS union have moved into indefinite action

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2 September 2020

TV: Once Upon a Time in Iraq

No one could watch this five-part documentary series about the Iraq war and come away with the feeling that the war was anything but a catastrophe for the people of Iraq, the Middle East and humanity as a whole.

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2 September 2020

Capitalism cause of disproportionate disabled deaths and isolation

Covid-19 has disproportionately hit disabled people. This is one of the effects of capitalist society, which is disabling, and puts profit before lives, including of the people it disables.

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5 August 2020

'First you clap us then you slap us'

Hundreds of healthcare workers marched from St Thomas' hospital in London to 10 Downing Street

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5 August 2020

Capitalism's 'vaccine war' shows need for socialist cooperation

Covid-19 can travel round the world at jet speed. No one can feel secure without global action. Yet despite gushing words from government leaders about international cooperation on research and development, a 'vaccine war' is developing.

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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

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5 August 2020

Anniversary of nuclear destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Can the slide toward a new arms race be halted?: 75 years ago, as World War Two was drawing to a close, United States forces dropped two atomic bombs above the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

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30 July 2020

Socialism 2020

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22 July 2020

Huawei: what's behind Johnson's u-turn?

World capitalism has a growing polarisation into competing blocs

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22 July 2020

Exciting Cuban spy thriller exposes US-sponsored terrorism

Action-packed and exciting, Wasp Network is a spy thriller that tells the story of the 'Cuban Five'

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22 July 2020

Them & Us

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15 July 2020

How the FBI and Chicago police murdered a Black Panther

Books that inspired me: Fred Hampton, chairman of the Illinois Black Panther Party, deserves wider recognition as a socialist leader for black liberation

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8 July 2020

Hong Kong: The fight for democratic rights

Thousands of protesters took to the streets of Hong Kong on the 23rd anniversary of the settlement between London and Beijing

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8 July 2020

Books that inspired me: The Fire Next Time

James Baldwin's 'The fire next time' is a series of short essays describing the author's experiences of being black in America in the 1950s and 60s

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1 July 2020

From slavery to Black Lives Matter - racism and capitalist injustice exposed

TV review: 13th: I was encouraged to watch this documentary by my daughter who has recently been motivated to go to her first protest, the Black Lives Matter demos against racism.

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1 July 2020

Readers' opinion

On 25 June, Google announced a "new licencing programme to support the news industry". The programme pays publishers for high-quality content in an effort to remove paywalls. A "new news experience"

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