22/05/2013: 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
20/05/2013: 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.
17/05/2013: 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.
11/05/2013: The latest events that have happened in Italian politics mark a new
phase of development in the crisis in the third European industrial
power.
10/05/2013: On 2 May the neo-fascist Golden Dawn attempted to distribute food in
Syntagma square in Athens to people holding proof of Greek nationality.
08/05/2013: The United Socialist Party’s May Day demonstration passed successfully
through a number of populous areas of Colombo, ending at Grand Pass
Junction.
06/05/2013: ’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.
05/05/2013: 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.
03/05/2013: 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.
03/05/2013: 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.
www.socialistworld.net, 16/04/2011 website of the committee for a workers' international, CWI
About the need to nationalise the energy sector and move away from
fossil fuels and nuclear energy in favour of genuine renewable,
sustainable energy production
The horrible tragedy of the events in Fukushima should serve as a
warning to the dangers of nuclear power, particularly in areas prone to
natural disasters. This is further aggravated when big business and
private industry have a role to play in nuclear energy production and
the interests of profit are more important than the impact on the lives
of ordinary people and the environment.
The catastrophe in Fukushima raises real questions about the future of
nuclear power and our need to move away from both nuclear power and
fossils fuels towards safe, sustainable and renewable forms of energy
but there are also important questions to be asked about how can we make
that switch considering that nuclear power is already a significant
feature in many countries and that nuclear power plants cannot just be
decommissioned overnight.
Big business cannot be trusted to put safety ahead of profit when it
comes to nuclear power and the first step must be to take nuclear power
and energy production out of the hands of private ownership and placed
under democratic control where ordinary people and the workers in the
industry have full control over safety in existing nuclear plants and
can look at the safest and most efficient methods of moving away from
nuclear power.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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!
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.
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
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]
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
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