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Brazil: Protest spreading
18/06/2013, CWI:
Well over 250,000 in approximately 20 cities took to the streets
Hong Kong: 1,000 demonstrators defend whistleblower Snowden
18/06/2013, Text of Socialist Action (CWI Hong Kong) leaflet distributed at Hong
Kong demonstration:
Revelations by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden have exposed US
hypocrisy over cyber-spying
G8 summit: No to G8 austerity
17/06/2013, Niall Mulholland, CWI:
End the rule of big business, poverty and war
Pakistan / Sindh province: Stop victimization and union busting of women
health workers
15/06/2013, Fazal Abbas Shah, Secretary General Progressive Workers Federation of
Pakistan:
“We will defend our rights and continue fighting”.
India: Agitation of Workers at Pune
15/06/2013, New Socialist Alternative (CWI India):
Fed up with continued oppression, workers under the banner of ’Pradeep
Laminators Workers’ Union’ have started a propaganda campaign against
the bosses.
Turkey: End police brutality - defend anti-government protesters
13/06/2013, Paul Murphy, MEP, Socialist Party (CWI Ireland):
MEP Paul Murphy criticises EU foreign policy representative, Catherine
Ashton, over calls for ’restraint on all sides’
Greece: Government shuts down state broadcaster ERT
12/06/2013, Leaflet text by Xekinima (CWI
Greece):
Unions must organise general strike action now!
Video: Joe Higgins questions Irish Prime Minister about G8 summit
12/06/2013, Socialistworld.net:
Socialist MP slams huge security operation and anti-working class record
of world leaders
Turkey: “Vandals” continue to fight back
11/06/2013, Kai Stein, first published in the Socialist, paper of the Socialist
Party (CWI England & Wales):
Erdogan seeks trial of strength with mass protests
G8: Join the protest!
11/06/2013, Paul Murphy, MEP, Socialist
Party (CWI Ireland):
Oppose the summit of capitalist leaders, argues Paul Murphy in the
European Parliament
Turkey: International solidarity protests
11/06/2013, Socialist Party (CWI England
& Wales):
Report from London, with CWI comment on the developments in Turkey
Obituary: Comrade Kemelo Ernest Mokgalagadi
11/06/2013, Mametlwe Sebei, Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI South Africa):
A genuine working class fighter and a revolutionary socialist
Turkey: Solidarity is vital to show protesters the world is watching
10/06/2013, Paul Murphy, MEP, Socialist Party (CWI Ireland) first published in thejournal.ie:
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”.
Hong Kong: Tiananmen vigil sends a warning to China’s new leaders
08/06/2013, Dikang, Socialist Action (CWI) in Hong Kong:
24th anniversary of Beijing’s crackdown draws 150,000 protestors
Turkey: Solidarity with the mass protests
08/06/2013, From www.paulmurphymep.eu,
website of Paul Murphy, MEP, Socialist
Party (CWI Ireland):
Paul Murphy to visit heart of Turkish Protests
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.
Germany: Blockupy protests
07/06/2013, Sascha Stanicic, SAV (CWI Germany):
Police repression in the belly of the beast
G8: MEPs send message of solidarity to anti-G8 protestors
06/06/2013, www.paulmurphymep.eu - website
of Paul Murhpy, MEP, Socialist
Party (CWI Ireland) reports:
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.
Russia: CWI conference discusses perspectives for Putin’s regime
05/06/2013, CWI Reporters, Moscow:
Unrest grows over economic and social issues
Scotland: Thousands attend anti-bedroom tax protest in Glasgow
04/06/2013, Matt Dobson, Socialist Party Scotland (CWI Scotland):
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.
G8: Armed police and soldiers descend on County Fermanagh
02/06/2013, Tyler McNally and Gary Mulcahy, Socialist Party (CWI Ireland):
Secret Services bolster police ahead of G8 Summit in N Ireland
China / Hong Kong: Remembering 4 June 1989
01/06/2013, Dikang, Socialist Action (CWI Hong Kong):
Vital lessons for today’s democracy struggle
Britain: TUSC and the road to a new workers’ party
30/05/2013, Clive Heemskerk, first published in Socialism
Today, magazine of the Socialist
Party (CWI England & Wales):
Rising support for UKIP shows both the erosion of established party
loyalties and the existence of a profound vacuum of working-class
political representation.
Europe: Austerity and unemployment across the continent
29/05/2013, Joe Higgins, TD, Socialist
Party (CWI Ireland):
EU council meeting: Another attempt to put the burden of the capitalist
crisis on the shoulders of youth and working people
Environment: Brazil’s forests
28/05/2013, Ben Robinson, Socialist Party (CWI England and Wales):
Profits from destruction
Sri Lanka: Working class beginning to move forward
25/05/2013, Srinath Perera, United Socialist Party (USP – CWI, Sri Lanka):
The one day protest general strike held on 21 May was a significant step
forward for the working class in Sri Lanka.
CWI Comment and Analysis
ANALYSIS
Brazil: Mass struggles resurface as weight of crisis is felt
16/06/2013, André Ferrari LSR (CWI in Brazil):
Mass demonstrations against the increase of bus fares in all major cities
Syria: Conflict threatens to spread across the Middle East
08/06/2013, Peter Taaffe, general secretary Socialist
Party (CWI England & Wales):
Urgent need for independent working class socialist organisations
Turkey: Mass movement challenges Erdogan government
04/06/2013, Sosyalist Alternatif (CWI Turkey) Reporters:
Public sector workers take strike action against police violence – For a
one day general strike as a next step to bring down the government!
Boycotting Israel: The socialist view
31/05/2013, Judy Beishon, first published in Socialism
Today, magazine of the Socialist
Party (CWI England & Wales):
‘Boycott, divestment and sanctions’- questions and answers about the BDS
campaign
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’
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!
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