Geert Cool is a member of Linkse Socialistiche Partij / Parti Socialiste de Lutte (CWI in Belgium). India’s prime minister, Narendra Modi has gone one step further in strengthening his Hindu nationalist regime. In August 2019, he moved to abolish the limited special rights of Jammu and Kashmir. Now, with the Citizens Amendment Act […]
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Jeremy Trott is a member of Socialist Action Australia. Australia is in the grip of an extreme bushfire crisis. Record-breaking heat waves and months of drought have created the conditions for massive blazes across the country. The scale of the fires is unprecedented, affecting every state on the continent. They are the largest bushfires ever […]
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Dikang is a member of Socialist Action (CWI in Hong Kong). Workers urgently need to organise to resist the repression. Build for a real general strike! Carrie Lam’s Hong Kong government has dramatically escalated the level of police violence against the pro-democracy protest movement. This escalation, obvious since the start of November, has clearly been […]
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Per Olsson is a member of Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (CWI in Sweden). After nearly 18 years of devastating war in Afghanistan, the US government has concluded a preliminary settlement with the Taliban which, as a first step, will mean sending home 5,400 US soldiers within 135 days. In exchange, the Taliban is said to have promised […]
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James Clement is a member of Socialist Alternative (England, Wales & Scotland). The ongoing trade war between Japan and South Korea has heightened with the decision by the South Korean government to sever their military intelligence cooperation with Japan. The trade war itself began when Japan removed South Korea from its white list of 27 […]
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Geert Cool is a member of Linkse Socialistiche Partij / Parti Socialiste de Lutte (CWI in Belgium). Seventy two years after the agreement between the Maharajah (King) of Kashmir and the Indian Government on accession of Kashmir in the areas of foreign affairs, telecommunications and defence, India is unilaterally terminating the autonomous status of Jammu […]
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George Martin Fell Brown is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. The United States is dangerously close to a military conflict with Iran. The catalyst was the shooting down by Iran of a U.S. military drone on June 20. In response Donald Trump authorized airstrikes against Iran only to halt them ten minutes […]
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Jagadish G. Chandra is a member of New Socialist Alternative (CWI in India). Prime Minister, Narendra Modi and his party have scored a second general election victory. It has stunned pundits and political analysts across the board. Given the tumultuous period of the last five years under Modi’s style of governance it was expected that […]
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Robin Clapp is a member of the Socialist Party (CWI in England & Wales). Still the world’s third largest economy in total GDP terms, Japan is stagnating – hit by prolonged economic stagnation, political inertia and rising social alienation. Peak Japan: the end of great ambitions, Brad Glosserman, 2019reviews a comprehensive guide to Japan’s rise […]
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Jagadish G. Chandra is a member of New Socialist Alternative (CWI in India). The huge exercise of India’s 2019 General Election is under way across the country’s 29 states and seven Union territories. The last five years of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s abhorrently casteist, brutally capitalist and cut-throat communal regime have rammed home clearly how […]
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