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Ireland: Tax haven for multinational corporations
22/05/2013, Paul Murphy, MEP, Socialist
Party (CWI Ireland):
How Ireland is used as a tax haven by multinational corporations while
the government is preparing to steal the property tax from people’s
wages, social welfare and pensions
Germany: Strike at Amazon
22/05/2013, An Amazon activist reporting to SAV
(CWI Germany):
Union-agreed rates could bring Amazon workers 9000 euros more a year
Taiwan: Sea shooting sees Filipino migrants become target of racist
backlash
21/05/2013, Chris Dite and CWI Taiwan reporters, article from Chinaworker.info:
Anti-racist campaign needed against corrupt ruling elites and capitalism
G8 Summit, Northern Ireland:’Why YOU should oppose the G8’
20/05/2013, Socialist Party, Northern Ireland (CWI Ireland):
This year’s G8 summit will be held in County Fermanagh, Northern
Ireland, on 17th – 18th June. This gathering brings together the heads
of government of eight of the world’s largest capitalist economies to
discuss how they can further the interests of those they represent – the
super-rich, big business and the bankers.
South Africa: Mass retrenchment threat in mining industry demands mass
action
18/05/2013, DSM (CWI South Africa)
reporters:
Workers and Socialist Party calls for one-day-general strike
Iran: What would a Rafsanjani presidency mean?
18/05/2013, Kave Heydari, Iranian CWI supporter in Britain:
Iran’s June 14 presidential election takes place against the background
of deep divisions in society and the regime.
Australia: Labour approves WA’s first uranium mine
17/05/2013, Socialist Party (CWI Australia) reporters Perth:
Australia’s federal environment minister Tony Burke gave the go ahead to
Toro’s $270 million uranium mining project in the Wiluna region of
Western Australia.
New Zealand: Racism and recession in New Zealand
15/05/2013, Jared Phillips, CWI New Zealand:
Working class unity needed to defend rights and living standards
Australian budget: Say ‘NO’ to the cuts agenda of the major parties
14/05/2013, Editorial comment from ‘The Socialist’, paper of the Socialist
Party (CWI Australia):
We shouldn’t let either of the major parties tell us that ‘tough
decisions’ or ‘hard cuts’ are required.
Ireland: ‘Bus Eireann workers in front line of class war - We should all
support them!’
13/05/2013, Socialist Party (CWI Ireland)
Reporters:
Bus workers take strike action over savage wage cuts and attacks on
conditions
May Day in Nigeria: Jonathan government intensifies attacks on
democratic rights
12/05/2013, Ebike Iseru, DSM (CWI Nigeria):
15 DSM members arrested at May Day rallies
Italy: The economic crisis becomes a political and institutional crisis
11/05/2013, Marco Veruggio, ControCorrente (CWI Italy):
The latest events that have happened in Italian politics mark a new
phase of development in the crisis in the third European industrial
power.
Malaysia: Election ’victory’ based on fraud
10/05/2013, Ravichandren, CWI Malaysia:
Ruling Barisan Nasional’s widespread fraud enrages opposition supporters
and young people
Greece: Challenging the Golden Dawn
10/05/2013, Katerina Kleitsa , Xekinima (CWI Greece):
On 2 May the neo-fascist Golden Dawn attempted to distribute food in
Syntagma square in Athens to people holding proof of Greek nationality.
British county elections: Capitalist parties rejected
10/05/2013, Editorial of the Socialist, paper of the Socialist
Party (CWI England & Wales):
Time for a new mass workers’ party
Tunisia: The calm before the storm
09/05/2013, CWI reporter in Tunis:
New clashes on the horizon
Pakistan: General elections held amid political turmoil
08/05/2013, Khalid Bhatti, SMP (CWI Pakistan), Lahore:
Big landlords, capitalists and influential families are calling the shots
Sri Lanka: Successful May Day
08/05/2013, USP(CWI, Sri Lanka):
The United Socialist Party’s May Day demonstration passed successfully
through a number of populous areas of Colombo, ending at Grand Pass
Junction.
Hong Kong: Dockworkers’ strike ends after 40 days
07/05/2013, Vincent Kolo, chinaworker.info:
Union representatives declare a “half success” with a pay rise of 9.8
percent – but important issues are unresolved
Britain’s ’precariat’: Fighting for real jobs
06/05/2013, Claire Laker-Mansfield, Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales), first
published in The
Socialist:
’Get a job!’ is the constant refrain of privileged Tory ministers and
vicious right-wing tabloids. A million unemployed young people are the
subject of a relentless campaign of smears and lies.
Liverpool: Rally marks 30 year anniversary of election of socialist
council
05/05/2013, Dave Walsh, Unite Convener for Liverpool City Council, from The
Socialist, paper of the Socialist
Party (CWI England & Wales):
Great event remembers the ’47’ struggle
Australian budget: Say ‘NO’ to the cuts agenda of the major parties
04/05/2013, Editorial comment from the May 2013 edition of ‘The Socialist’, paper of
the Socialist Party
(CWI Australia):
Those who created the crisis should be forced to pay.
Nigerian May Day arrests: All DSM members released [updated]
03/05/2013, Press statement by Segun Sango, general secretary DSM (CWI Nigeria):
The last set of DSM members still in the detention of the state security
service (SSS) in Kaduna, Northwest Nigeria, and Ibadan Oyo state,
Southwest Nigeria, as of yesterday, has been released.
Pakistan: May Day 2013
03/05/2013, Syed Fazal Abass Shah, secretary general PWF, Pakistan:
Progressive Workers Federation (PWF), TURCP and SMP organised and
intervened in the May Day activities across the country
Bangladesh building collapse: Casualties of a rotten profit system
03/05/2013, The Socialist, paper of the Socialist
Party (CWI England & Wales):
It is said that where labour is cheap, life is cheap. This is never more
so than in the recent horrific deaths of over 400 garment workers
crushed in a collapsed building in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh.
Hong Kong: Dockers’ strike shines a spotlight on Li Ka-shing’s business
empire
03/05/2013, Dikang, Socialist Action (CWI supporters in Hong Kong):
Li Ka-shing owns 13 percent of the world’s port capacity and much more
besides…
CWI Comment and Analysis
ANALYSIS
Nigeria: President Jonathan declares state of emergency
21/05/2013, Segun Sango, Protem National Chairperson, Socialist Party of Nigeria:
An expressway to attacks on democratic rights! For democratic mass
working peoples’ defence committees!
World economy: "Central banks are flying blind"
19/05/2013, Per-Åke Westerlund, from Offensiv, newspaper of Rättvisepartiet
Socialisterna (CWI Sweden):
Increasing concerns and contradictions
Israel/Palestine: The Palestinians’ struggle
12/05/2013, Judy Beishon, Socialist Party
(CWI England & Wales):
How can a state be realised?
Turkey / Kurdistan: PKK announces ceasefire
11/05/2013, Festus Okay, Sosyalist Alternatif (CWI Turkey):
On 8 May the PKK has begun to withdraw from Turkey. Millions are hoping
now for an end to oppression and for democratic rights.
Women and the struggle for socialism: It doesn’t have to be like this
05/05/2013, Christine Thomas, Controcorrente
(CWI Italy):
Christine Thomas’ book outlines how inequalities and discrimination
against women have not disappeared and women’s struggles must be bound
up with wider class struggle to be successful. Read the complete book
online here.
Cyprus: On the edge of a catastrophic slump
25/04/2013, Niall Mulholland, CWI:
Socialist polices needed to resolve crisis in the interests of majority
US: After the Boston Tragedy
23/04/2013, Bryan Koulouris, Boston, Socialist
Alternative (CWI supporters in the US):
NO to Racism and Repression
Britain: Combating violence against women
14/04/2013, Hannah Sell, on behalf of the Socialist
Party (CWI England & Wales) Executive Committee:
A socialist perspective on fighting women’s oppression
Thatcher: A class warrior for capitalism
12/04/2013, Alistair Tice, Socialist Party regional secretary, Yorkshire:
Millions have been waiting for this day, 8 April 2013. Margaret Thatcher
will never be forgiven for the devastation that her Tory governments’
policies wrought on working class communities in the 1980s - and is
still being felt today.
Britain: Margaret Thatcher dies
08/04/2013, Peter Taaffe, Socialist Party
(CWI England & Wales) general secretary:
Thatcher’s bitter legacy
Britain: A further round of savage austerity
08/04/2013, Peter Taaffe, Socialist Party
(CWI England & Wales) general secretary:
We must stop them!
Israel: “There is a future” – of cuts, racism and resistance
05/04/2013, Socialist Struggle Movement (CWI Israel/Palestine):
Weak Israeli government will try to implement austerity budget, and
would try to maintain the occupation, possibly under a new cover of
"negotiations" with Palestinians. Resistance likely on all fronts.
Cyprus: “Working people pay high price for crisis of euro and capitalism”
31/03/2013, Niall Mulholland spoke with Athina Kariati from New Internationalist
Left (CWI in Cyprus) about Cyprus’s deal with the Troika, what it will
mean for working people and what is the socialist solution to the crisis:
Interview with a Cypriot socialist
China: New leadership rejects democratisation
28/03/2013, Vincent Kolo, chinaworker.info:
At annual NPC-CPPCC meetings Xi Jinping and Li Keqiang talk of ‘tough
reforms’ for economy, but rule out ‘Western models’
Venezuela: After the death of Hugo Chávez
24/03/2013, Tony Saunois, CWI, a shorter version of this article was first published
in Socialism Today,
magazine of the Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales:
Radical, populist policies and anti-imperialism helped transform the
political situation
Italy’s clowns: No joke for establishment parties
23/03/2013, Christine Thomas, ControCorrente (CWI in Italy), first published in Socialism
Today, magazine of the Socialist
Party (CWI England & Wales):
In his ‘tsunami’ election tour Grillo began to give voice to the deep
discontent at economic crisis and austerity
Cyprus/EU: Eurozone back in turmoil
22/03/2013, Tony Saunois, CWI:
No trust in capitalist government! No austerity for the Euro! Kick out
the Troika! For a socialist alternative!
[Updated article, 25
March]
South Africa: Workers & Socialist Party launched in Pretoria
21/03/2013, CWI reporters, South Africa:
Launch surpassed all expectations
Iraq: Ten years since ‘shock and awe’
20/03/2013, Niall Mulholland, from The Socialist, weekly newspaper of the Socialist
Party (CWI England and Wales):
Imperialism’s harvest of death and destruction
March 8th: The day of international working women’s solidarity
07/03/2013, Clare Doyle, CWI:
Beware the anger of women against the bosses’ system!
Hugo Chavez dies: The struggle continues
06/03/2013, Tony Saunois, CWI Secretary:
Millions of Venezuelan workers, the poor and youth will mourn the death
of Venezuelan president, Hugo Chavez
Lebanon: Public sector workers on indefinite strike over wages
04/03/2013, Tamer Mahdi, CWI:
Workers’ unity against big business shows potential for anti-sectarian,
socialist alternative
Portugal: New explosion against austerity and the government
03/03/2013, socialistworld.net:
“Screw the Troika – the people are the best rulers”
Tunisia: ‘Buckshot’ Ali Larayedh appointed prime minister
27/02/2013, CWI supporters in Tunisia:
Down with the Ennahdha regime! Down with the system!
Italy: Voters reject austerity in ‘tsunami’ election
27/02/2013, Chris Thomas, Controcorrente (CWI in Italy):
Political instability, crisis and new opportunities ahead
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