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19/05/2013: Increasing concerns and contradictions
18/05/2013: Workers and Socialist Party calls for one-day-general strike
18/05/2013: Iran’s June 14 presidential election takes place against the background
of deep divisions in society and the regime.
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.
15/05/2013: Working class unity needed to defend rights and living standards
14/05/2013: We shouldn’t let either of the major parties tell us that ‘tough
decisions’ or ‘hard cuts’ are required.
13/05/2013: Bus workers take strike action over savage wage cuts and attacks on
conditions
12/05/2013: 15 DSM members arrested at May Day rallies
12/05/2013: How can a state be realised?
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.
11/05/2013: On 8 May the PKK has begun to withdraw from Turkey. Millions are hoping
now for an end to oppression and for democratic rights.
10/05/2013: Ruling Barisan Nasional’s widespread fraud enrages opposition supporters
and young people
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.
10/05/2013: Time for a new mass workers’ party
09/05/2013: New clashes on the horizon
08/05/2013: Big landlords, capitalists and influential families are calling the shots
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.
07/05/2013: Union representatives declare a “half success” with a pay rise of 9.8
percent – but important issues are unresolved
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: Great event remembers the ’47’ struggle
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.
04/05/2013: Those who created the crisis should be forced to pay.
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: Progressive Workers Federation (PWF), TURCP and SMP organised and
intervened in the May Day activities across the country
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.
03/05/2013: Li Ka-shing owns 13 percent of the world’s port capacity and much more
besides…
02/05/2013: ‘Defend pensions! Stop corruption!’
02/05/2013: Photos of May Day demonstration in Sindh
02/05/2013: DSM comrades arrested and detained
01/05/2013: CC rules budget illegal for second time, government declares war against
it
01/05/2013: The CWI sends revolutionary greetings and solidarity to workers, young
people and all those exploited by capitalism.
30/04/2013: Irish Presidency brought unprecedented levels of cuts to the EU budget.
29/04/2013: Writing off of any debt accrued due to the bedroom tax, supporting the
building of new social housing, opposing all cuts and austerity measures
28/04/2013: Socialist policies needed
28/04/2013: SSM member, Suiher Daska and other left candidates were elected to the
leadership of the union on the background of the coming struggles
against austerity
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 Kazakhstan
Vadim Kuramshin has been freed!www.socialistworld.net, 28/08/2012
website of the committee for a workers' international, CWI Great victory for the international solidarity campaign
socialistworld.net
The Socialist Movement Kazakhstan have made an announcement on their
site that Vadim was released directly from the court-room in Taraz this
morning soon after 11 am.
They express their heartfelt congratulations and gratitude to all those
who “did not stand aside and, together with us, constantly worried about
his fate and fought for his release”.
This is a great victory for the international solidarity campaign.
More details to follow.
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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.
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
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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