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20/06/2013: New layer of workers, youth and poor has entered the scene with the
promise: “This is just the beginning – the struggle continues”
19/06/2013: Socialist MEP condemns police violence during Turkey/ EU trade relations
session
18/06/2013: Well over 250,000 in approximately 20 cities took to the streets
18/06/2013: Revelations by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden have exposed US
hypocrisy over cyber-spying
17/06/2013: End the rule of big business, poverty and war
16/06/2013: Mass demonstrations against the increase of bus fares in all major cities
15/06/2013: “We will defend our rights and continue fighting”.
15/06/2013: Fed up with continued oppression, workers under the banner of ’Pradeep
Laminators Workers’ Union’ have started a propaganda campaign against
the bosses.
13/06/2013: MEP Paul Murphy criticises EU foreign policy representative, Catherine
Ashton, over calls for ’restraint on all sides’
12/06/2013: Unions must organise general strike action now!
12/06/2013: Socialist MP slams huge security operation and anti-working class record
of world leaders
11/06/2013: Erdogan seeks trial of strength with mass protests
11/06/2013: Oppose the summit of capitalist leaders, argues Paul Murphy in the
European Parliament
11/06/2013: Report from London, with CWI comment on the developments in Turkey
11/06/2013: A genuine working class fighter and a revolutionary socialist
10/06/2013: Socialist Party MEP Paul Murphy travelled to Istanbul to see the
protests first-hand – and in his diary from the visit he tells us that
the response from the country’s Prime Minister has been “brutal”.
08/06/2013: 24th anniversary of Beijing’s crackdown draws 150,000 protestors
08/06/2013: Urgent need for independent working class socialist organisations
08/06/2013: Paul Murphy to visit heart of Turkish Protests
07/06/2013: An 18-year-old student activist Clement Meric was murdered in Paris in
broad daylight, on 5 June, by neo-fascist skinheads. This must be
answered by mass mobilisation to halt attempts by the far right to raise
its head.
07/06/2013: Police repression in the belly of the beast
06/06/2013: A group of 12 MEPs from the left wing group in the European Parliament,
GUE-NGL, have signed a joint message of support to Anti-G8 protestors
ahead of the summit in two weeks’ time.
05/06/2013: Unrest grows over economic and social issues
04/06/2013: Public sector workers take strike action against police violence – For a
one day general strike as a next step to bring down the government!
04/06/2013: Over 2,000 poeple attended the anti - bedroom tax rally in Glasgow’s
George Square on June 1 called by the Scottish Anti Bedroom Tax
Federation.
02/06/2013: Secret Services bolster police ahead of G8 Summit in N Ireland
01/06/2013: Vital lessons for today’s democracy struggle
31/05/2013: ‘Boycott, divestment and sanctions’- questions and answers about the BDS
campaign
30/05/2013: Rising support for UKIP shows both the erosion of established party
loyalties and the existence of a profound vacuum of working-class
political representation.
29/05/2013: EU council meeting: Another attempt to put the burden of the capitalist
crisis on the shoulders of youth and working people
28/05/2013: Sweden once had a reputation as some kind of ‘social-democratic model’
with far-reaching public services and social support. But that has been
dismantled by two decades of attacks – what the Economist magazine calls
a ‘silent revolution’
28/05/2013: Profits from destruction
25/05/2013: The one day protest general strike held on 21 May was a significant step
forward for the working class in Sri Lanka.
24/05/2013: Neo-liberalism and police violence have created social time-bomb
24/05/2013: Interview on Militant, the Labour Party and the struggle of the
socialist led council 1983-87 in Liverpool
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Workers demonstrate against cutbackswww.socialistworld.net, 11/11/2005
website of the committee for a workers' international, CWI ’Socialist’ government’s policies threaten French-style explosion
socialistworld.net
The following Alternativa Socialista (CWI) leaflet (in Portuguese) was
distributed on 11 November, during a national protest demonstration by
unions, in Lisbon, against the right wing ’Socialist’ government’s
cutbacks and attacks on workers’ rights and conditions.
The Socialist Party, led by Prime Minister Jose Socrates, won
elections in February, this year, gaining their first absolute
majority since the end of the military regime in 1974.
President de Sampaio called early elections due to widespread
discontent with the previous right wing government’s policies, the
country’s poor economic situation and growing joblessness.
On taking office, Socrates pledged to tackle unemployment and the
budget deficit. But his policies of cutbacks are only increasing the
burdens on working people.
The CWI leaflet supports calls for a two-day strike against attacks on
the public sector and calls for a national strike. Lisbon council
workers have already decided to strike against cuts in December.
The leaflet also includes a translation of a recent French CWI
leaflet, which was produced and distributed, last weekend, in response
to the riots in Paris and across France.
The Portuguese leaflet warns that with continuing government cutbacks
and falling living standards, and without a determined union
fight-back and a principled mass socialist opposition, desperation
could develop in some of the most downtrodden urban areas and riots
could also erupt in Portugal.
socialistworld.net
Workers
demonstrate against cutbacks
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Turkey: Stop the repression
19/06/2013, Paul Murphy, MEP, Socialist Party (CWI Ireland):
Socialist MEP condemns police violence during Turkey/ EU trade relations
session
France: Fatal fascist violence in Paris
07/06/2013, Comments from BlockBuster (Anti-racist youth organisation in Belgium):
An 18-year-old student activist Clement Meric was murdered in Paris in
broad daylight, on 5 June, by neo-fascist skinheads. This must be
answered by mass mobilisation to halt attempts by the far right to raise
its head.
Sweden: The reality of Swedish neo-liberalism
28/05/2013, Per Olsson, Rättisvepartiet Socialisterna (CWI Sweden):
Sweden once had a reputation as some kind of ‘social-democratic model’
with far-reaching public services and social support. But that has been
dismantled by two decades of attacks – what the Economist magazine calls
a ‘silent revolution’
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.
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.
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.
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
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]
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