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Just days after news from Russia of the imprisonment of Boris Kagarlitsky (https://www.socialistworld.net/2024/02/16/veteran-socialist-academic-condemned-to-five-years-in-russian-prison/) comes the report of the death in custody of Russia’s most famous political prisoner – 47-year-old Alexei Navalny, reportedly after taking exercise [...]
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Boris Kagarlitsky – the Russian sociologist, political scientist, self-declared Marxist, and socialist – is in jail after a court decided to change a “too soft” sentence to fine him into a five-year prison sentence. In [...]
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In an election held last October in Poland, with a historically high voter turnout of more than 74 percent, the previously ruling Law and Justice (PiS) – a right wing populist and nationalist party – lost [...]
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Keir Starmer’s New Labour in Britain is on course to win the general election as the only available governmental alternative to prime minister Rushi Sunak’s hated Tory government. Nonetheless, millions will not be able to [...]
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Successive British governments, starting in earnest with Margaret Thatcher, continuing under Tony Blair and New Labour, and the rest since, have embarked on mass privatisation of previously nationalised industries in Britain. What has been the [...]