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Irish Republic: Repeal the eighth amendment!

ROSA activists campaign for a woman's right to choose in Ireland (Click to enlarge)

ROSA activists (for Reproductive rights, against Oppression, Sexism and Austerity), including CWI Ireland members, shown campaigning for a woman's right to choose.

They are demanding a referendum to repeal the eighth amendment to the Irish constitution which prohibits women's abortion rights.

Anti Austerity Alliance TD (MP) and Socialist Party Ireland member Ruth Coppinger has a #repealbill up for debate in the Dail (Irish parliament) in October. Campaigners will use the run up to that debate to put as much pressure as possible on all TDs to vote in favour.

China: Solidarity with striking Walmart workers

CWI members in Hong Kong express solidarity with striking Walmart workers in China (Click to enlarge)

CWI members in Hong Kong express solidarity with striking Walmart workers in mainland China.

China has been hit by unofficial strikes at Walmart stores in at least four cities after company bosses imposed new rotten work contracts. The workers' strikes are unprecedented because they are coordinated - using social media - in a police state where strikes are usually confined to one workplace or city.

See chinaworker.info

Brazil: CWI member contesting council seat

Marzeni Pereira, contesting a council seat in Brazil (Click to enlarge)

Marzeni Pereira is a LSR (CWI) member, a leading water workers' trade unionist who was sacked last year for exposing the water crisis in Sao Paulo. He is standing as candidate for the Sao Paulo council, as part of the PSOL party which LSR participates in as a revolutionary socialist current.

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Finance appeal

The coronavirus crisis has laid bare the class character of society in numerous ways. It is making clear to many that it is the working class that keeps society running, not the CEOs of major corporations.

The results of austerity have been graphically demonstrated as public services strain to cope with the crisis.

The government has now ripped up its 'austerity' mantra and turned to policies that not long ago were denounced as socialist. But after the corona crisis, it will try to make the working class pay for it, by trying to claw back what has been given.

The Socialist Party's material is more vital than ever, so we can continue to report from workers who are fighting for better health and safety measures, against layoffs, for adequate staffing levels, etc.
When the health crisis subsides, we must be ready for the stormy events ahead and the need to arm workers' movements with a socialist programme - one which puts the health and needs of humanity before the profits of a few.

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