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Burma: Two elections, 90% support but no power
Russia: CWI supporters arrested during Moscow protests
Lebanon: Union leaders call “a strike without credibility”
Germany: Massive state repression against “Blockupy” movement
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Burma: Two elections, 90% support but no power

19/05/2012: Workers’ organisations must ensure real change

  Burma

 Russia: CWI supporters arrested during Moscow protests

18/05/2012: Police target socialists at protest camp – urgent protests needed!

  Russia, Solidarity

Lebanon: Union leaders call “a strike without credibility”

18/05/2012: Build fighting, democratic trade unions!

  Lebanon

Germany: Massive state repression against “Blockupy” movement

18/05/2012: Thousands attempt to occupy squares and blockade the ECB in Frankfurt, Germany. Protests are banned.

  Germany

 Kazakhstan: Activists released

18/05/2012: Leader of the “Leave Peoples’ Homes Alone” campaign and member of the SMK, Larissa Boyar, and others have been released from prison

  Kazakhstan, Solidarity

 Kazakhstan: MEP speaks out against repression

15/05/2012: "Despite this ferocious oppression, the opposition and discontent of the working class cannot be silenced"

  Kazakhstan, Video

US: Socialist candidate challenges corporate politics in Washington state

13/05/2012: "During an election dominated by career politicians who are loyal to big business, I am running as a Socialist Alternative candidate to make sure there is at least one independent left-wing, pro-worker candidate in Washington State worth voting for."

  US

US: In calculated move, Obama supports gay marriage

12/05/2012: Step up the Struggle for Equality

  LGBT, US

Nigeria: Experiences of the explosion of class struggle

12/05/2012: Urgency of a working class alternative proven again

  Nigeria

Russia: Moscow left holds May Day Moscow demonstration

12/05/2012: Lively and political CWI contingent attracts variety of activists

  May Day, Russia

May Day: Demonstration in Uleåborg Finland

12/05/2012: Meeting discusses involvement in Afghanistan

  Finland, May Day

Kazakhstan: Miners’ strike ends in victory for workers

11/05/2012: Campaign Kazakhstan reports that newspapers in Kazakhstan said a strike by miners at KazakhMys ended on 7 May with a complete victory for the workers.

  Kazakhstan

 Irish referendum: No to the austerity treaty!

10/05/2012: On 31 May Irish voters are asked to vote on the European fiscal treaty. This video explains what the treaty is about.

  Ireland Republic, Video

May Day in Nigeria: Fanfare fails to mask workers’ anger

10/05/2012: May Day should have offered opportunity for workers to pose their demands and agitation before the government

  May Day, Nigeria

Sri Lanka: United left May Day in Colombo

09/05/2012: Socialist organisations march to joint rally

  May Day, Sri Lanka

Hong Kong: Thousands march on May Day

05/05/2012: Socialist Action (CWI) campaigning against the capitalist 1% and against racism

  Hong Kong, May Day

Sweden: May Day in Gothenburg

05/05/2012: Bobby Seale as guest speaker

  May Day, Sweden

 Kazakhstan: Trial of Vadim Kuramshim resumes

04/05/2012: Solidarity needed to free Vadim!

  Kazakhstan, Solidarity

Pakistan: May Day in Sindh

04/05/2012: Fotos of impressive march

  May Day, Pakistan

Lebanon: Build a mass workers’ movement to get rid of the corrupt ruling class

03/05/2012: For a workers’ programme that puts forward the socialist alternative

  Lebanon, May Day

Germany: Heading towards days of action against Troika austerity

03/05/2012: Days of action planned in Frankfurt/Main against European Central Bank and big finance

  Germany

Britain: "We’re striking back on 10 May"

02/05/2012: Pension cuts, job cuts, service cuts

  Britain

Ireland: Water charges are just paving the way for privatisation

02/05/2012: Irish government doesn’t seem to have learned anything from the massive opposition to its Household Tax

  Ireland Republic

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Greece: New elections due as pro-austerity coalition talks fail

15/05/2012: For a Left government! For anti-austerity, pro-worker, socialist policies!

Nikos Anastasiades, Xekinima (CWI in Greece ) and Niall Mulholland, CWI


  Greece

comment & analysis

Tunisia
General strikes, power struggles and an economic stalemate

15/05/2012: Republic’s president, Marzouki, afraid of ‘new revolution’

CWI reporters

  Tunisia

France
Weekend that shocked Europe

09/05/2012: Austerity rejected in Eurozone’s second biggest economy

Robert Bechert, CWI

  France

Britain
Legitimacy of Cameron and Clegg further shattered

07/05/2012: The Con-Dem government suffered a crushing defeat in last Thursday’s elections for local authorities and in the mayoral contests apart from London.

Peter Taaffe, Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales) general secretary

  Britain

The capitalist “vampire squid” and the class struggle in Europe

06/05/2012: As economic crisis worsens and class struggles continue in Spain, Greece, Portugal and elsewhere in Europe, the need for working class fight-back and to build the influence of Marxism grows.

CWI

  CWI Comment And Analysis, Europe

Argentina
Kirchner nationalises YPF petrol and provokes the wrath of imperialism

20/04/2012: Shrieks of protest from the Spanish government, Repsol, EU leaders, Latin American Presidents and others have been unleashed

Tony Saunois, CWI

  Argentina

Venezuela
Where are Chavez and the Bolivarian Revolution heading?

18/04/2012: The Current Political Context

Johan Rivas, Socialismo Revolucionario (CWI in Venezuela)

  Venezuela

The capitalist “vampire squid” and the class struggle in Europe

06/04/2012: As economic crisis worsens and class struggles continue in Spain, Greece, Portugal and elsewhere in Europe, the need for working class fight-back and to build the influence of Marxism grows.

CWI

  CWI Comment And Analysis, Europe

France
Is the NPA still a step towards a new fighting party for workers and youth?

21/02/2012: Statement from Gauche Révolutionnaire (French section of the CWI) drawing a balance sheet of its experience in the NPA

Gauche Révolutionnaire

  France, New workers' parties

Syria
Protests brutally repressed, armed conflict spreading and threat of imperialist intervention

18/02/2012: For a mass movement of workers and the poor to defeat Assad’s regime and imperialism!

Aysha Zaki, CWI Lebanon

  Syria

Europe
No to the debt! No to the austerity! No to the blackmail!

09/02/2012: International struggle can end dictatorship of the markets

Joint declaration by CWI sections in Greece, Portugal, Ireland, Italy and Spain

  CWI Comment And Analysis, Europe

World
Capitalist chaos – class struggle sharpens

01/02/2012: CWI – a socialist analysis

Agreed by the CWI IEC 21 January 2012

  CWI Comment And Analysis

 CWI International Meeting
Upturn in class struggles across Europe

26/01/2012: Euro-zone crisis deepens

Finghín Kelly, Socialist Party (CWI in Ireland)

  CWI, Europe

World economy
The year of all risks

15/01/2012: On the brink of a new downturn

Lynn Walsh, editor of Socialism Today, monthly magazine of the Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)

  World Economy

 Outlook for 2012
A world in turmoil

31/12/2011: Review of 2011 - A period of revolution and counterrevolution

Peter Taaffe, International Secretariat of the CWI and general secretary Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)

  CWI Comment And Analysis, Video

Nigeria
Boko Haram’s Christmas bombings

28/12/2011: Working masses must unite against descent into anarchy

Segun Sango, General Secretary Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM - CWI in Nigeria)

  Nigeria

Kazakhstan
Bloody attack has not defeated striking workers

17/12/2011: UPDATE @ 22:30 GMT - Only united and extensive workers’ action can end this dictatorial regime

CWI reporters, Russia and Kazakhstan

  Kazakhstan

Britain
When all they offer is cuts, joblessness and misery...

16/09/2011: ...we need a programme of action to fight back!

Peter Taaffe, Socialist Party (CWI in England & Wales) general secretary

  Britain

Palestine
UN vote on ‘statehood’

14/09/2011: How can the national rights of Palestinians be achieved?

Judy Beishon, Socialist Party (CWI England and Wales)

  Israel / Palestine

The consequences of 9/11
A world turned upside down

10/09/2011: The bloody terrorist outrages of 11 September 2001 in New York, Pennsylvania and Washington were one of the defining moments in recent history.

Peter Taaffe, general secretary Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales), first published in Socialism Today

  CWI Comment And Analysis

Libya
After Gaddafi

06/09/2011: Stop the revolution’s derailment - independent workers’ action needed!

Robert Bechert, CWI

  Libya

Free Vadim! Europe

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Kazakhstan: MEP speaks out against repression, 15/05/2012

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