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48-hour general strike tomorrow in Greece

09/02/2012: Anger spilling over against troika austerity

Greece
Support for government in free fall

08/02/2012: General strike on 7 February opposes “mediaeval labour conditions!"

Syria
Anti-regime protests facing ferocious response

08/02/2012: No trust in Arab League and imperialist powers

Kazakhstan
Nazarbayev in Berlin

08/02/2012: A big protest rally in freezing temperatures greeted the Kazakhstan president as he attended a meeting to strengthen relations with the German government and big business.

Egypt
Mubarak’s state machine behind football stadium massacre

05/02/2012: 74 killed in horrific scenes

Ireland
Joe Higgins addresses packed anti-household tax meeting

04/02/2012: Joe Higgins argues in Cork, 26 January, to resist the household tax: "Yes, we have a choice!"

Belgium
January 30 General Strike

03/02/2012: A strike corresponding to the level of anger over austerity programme

EU summit
No capitalist solutions to the spiralling eurozone crisis

03/02/2012: The capitalist classes of Europe are all adopting the same policy of attempting to make the working class pay for the capitalist economic crisis.

Nigeria
Story of the great general strike

02/02/2012: A socialist view on recent showdown between government and people

Italy
Dozens of No TAV activists arrested

01/02/2012: The repression will not stop the movement!

World
Capitalist chaos – class struggle sharpens

01/02/2012: CWI – a socialist analysis

Socialism
Answering Common Questions

31/01/2012: Frequently asked questions

Kazakhstan
Free Vadim Kuramshin!

31/01/2012: Urgent solidarity needed

CWI International Meeting
Revolution and counter-revolution in North Africa and the Middle East

31/01/2012: The lessons of the first waves of revolutionary movements

Africa, CWI Comment And Analysis, Middle East

Kazakhstan
‘Labour Start’ editor makes outrageous claims against oil workers and CWI

31/01/2012: Worldwide solidarity campaign means the Kazakhstan regime can no longer deny 16 December massacre

Tunisia
“The mass of people continue to struggle”

31/01/2012: Interview with two Tunisian socialists, one year after the fall of Ben Ali

US
For an independent Left challenge in Presidential elections

30/01/2012: Fight Against Corporate Politics

US
Capitalist crisis and the occupy movement

30/01/2012: Bryan Koulouris explains how the USA is being transformed by the occupy movements which have arisen in anger at the growing inequality between the 1% and the 99% in the United States

Climate change
Dithering in Durban

30/01/2012: Once again, a United Nations-sponsored climate change conference has completely failed to address the issue of global warming.

Cyprus
Partial general strike paralyses public sector

29/01/2012: December’s industrial action against austerity just the beginning of the fight-back!

Asia
Feeling the coming storm

29/01/2012: Whole continent on the verge of major social convulsions and political shocks

Asia, CWI Comment And Analysis

Latin America
No escape from world crisis

28/01/2012: The illusory appearance of a peculiar isolation from the international picture of stagnation, recession and economic crisis is fragile - a new period of turbulent class conflict lays ahead

CWI Comment And Analysis, Latin America

China
“I was arrested by China’s Secret Police”.

27/01/2012: CWI’s Zhang Shujie speaks out at hearing in Sweden’s parliament

China

CWI International Meeting
Upturn in class struggles across Europe

26/01/2012: Euro-zone crisis deepens

CWI, Europe

Egypt
Huge crowds in Tahrir Square mark revolution anniversary

26/01/2012: Masses in Cairo and other cities demand end to military rule

Egypt

China
‘Long Hair’ to attend Stockholm hearing on state repression

26/01/2012: LSD legislator from Hong Kong to speak in support of young socialist Zhang Shujie, forced to flee China

China

CWI International Meeting
Illusion of stability in Latin America

25/01/2012: Contradictions and new struggles define situation in region

CWI, Latin America

Brazil
In defence of Pinheirinho inhabitants!

25/01/2012: 3 year old child killed in fatal repression

Brazil

Kazakhstan
New wave of arrests against opposition

25/01/2012: Release Vadim Kuramshin and all those arrested – End harassment of opposition activists!

Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan
After the Zhanaozen clampdown

25/01/2012: 16 December underlined the need for the workers’ movement to link economic demands to the struggle to bring down the regime

Kazakhstan, Video

USA
Mobilize to Support Longshore Workers

24/01/2012: Key Battle for the Labour and Occupy Movements

US

CWI International Meeting
World capitalism in crisis

22/01/2012: As world economy worsens, inter-imperialist relations intensify

CWI, CWI Comment And Analysis

Britain
Stephen Lawrence murder – The untold story

21/01/2012: How socialists and the local community fought back against racism and the BNP

Britain

Scotland
ConDem government blunders independence referendum

20/01/2012: Scottish National Party’s version of indepdendence a nightmare for workers

Scotland

Egypt
A year of revolution and counter-revolution

18/01/2012: As economic crisis worsens, new class conflicts loom

Egypt

US

30/01/2012: US: For an independent Left challenge in Presidential elections
30/01/2012: US: Capitalist crisis and the occupy movement
24/01/2012: USA: Mobilize to Support Longshore Workers

US

Solidarity messages for Transit Workers Union members

www.socialistworld.net, 22/12/2005
website of the committee for a workers' international, CWI

The following email and phone number can be used by CWI members and supporters to send messages of support to the striking transit workers in New York.

socialistworld.net

Socialist Alternative members in New York have attended ten picket lines today and have passed on these contact details.