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09/02/2012: Anger spilling over against troika austerity
08/02/2012: General strike on 7 February opposes “mediaeval labour conditions!"
08/02/2012: No trust in Arab League and imperialist powers
08/02/2012: A big protest rally in freezing temperatures greeted the Kazakhstan
president as he attended a meeting to strengthen relations with the
German government and big business.
05/02/2012: 74 killed in horrific scenes
04/02/2012: Joe Higgins argues in Cork, 26 January, to resist the household tax:
"Yes, we have a choice!"
03/02/2012: A strike corresponding to the level of anger over austerity programme
03/02/2012: The capitalist classes of Europe are all adopting the same policy of
attempting to make the working class pay for the capitalist economic
crisis.
02/02/2012: A socialist view on recent showdown between government and people
01/02/2012: The repression will not stop the movement!
01/02/2012: CWI – a socialist analysis
31/01/2012: Frequently asked questions
31/01/2012: Urgent solidarity needed
31/01/2012: The lessons of the first waves of revolutionary movements
31/01/2012: Worldwide solidarity campaign means the Kazakhstan regime can no longer
deny 16 December massacre
31/01/2012: Interview with two Tunisian socialists, one year after the fall of Ben
Ali
30/01/2012: Fight Against Corporate Politics
30/01/2012: Bryan Koulouris explains how the USA is being transformed by the occupy
movements which have arisen in anger at the growing inequality between
the 1% and the 99% in the United States
30/01/2012: Once again, a United Nations-sponsored climate change conference has
completely failed to address the issue of global warming.
29/01/2012: December’s industrial action against austerity just the beginning of the
fight-back!
29/01/2012: Whole continent on the verge of major social convulsions and political
shocks
28/01/2012: The illusory appearance of a peculiar isolation from the international
picture of stagnation, recession and economic crisis is fragile - a new
period of turbulent class conflict lays ahead
27/01/2012: CWI’s Zhang Shujie speaks out at hearing in Sweden’s parliament
26/01/2012: Euro-zone crisis deepens
26/01/2012: Masses in Cairo and other cities demand end to military rule
26/01/2012: LSD legislator from Hong Kong to speak in support of young socialist
Zhang Shujie, forced to flee China
25/01/2012: Contradictions and new struggles define situation in region
25/01/2012: 3 year old child killed in fatal repression
25/01/2012: Release Vadim Kuramshin and all those arrested – End harassment of
opposition activists!
25/01/2012: 16 December underlined the need for the workers’ movement to link
economic demands to the struggle to bring down the regime
24/01/2012: Key Battle for the Labour and Occupy Movements
22/01/2012: As world economy worsens, inter-imperialist relations intensify
21/01/2012: How socialists and the local community fought back against racism and
the BNP
20/01/2012: Scottish National Party’s version of indepdendence a nightmare for
workers
18/01/2012: As economic crisis worsens, new class conflicts loom
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website of the committee for a workers' international, CWI 15 February. No to war in Iraq. cwi reports from around the world.
CWI online
Millions demonstrate against the war
The following list of demonstrations and their participants was drawn up
by members of the Linkse Socialistiche Partij(LSP)/Mouvement pour une
Alternative Militant Links(MAS), the CWI’s Belgian affiliate. Some of
the figures are taken from media reports and therefore may not be
accurate. Where CWI members have participated we have included these
more accurate figures. Not all of the 603 protests are listed.
Australia
Canberra 16,000
Hobart 15,000
Lismore 7,000
Melbourne 250,000
Newcastle 20,000
Perth 30,000
Austria
Vienna 30,000
Belgium
Brussels 100,000
Bulgaria
Sofia 2,000
Canada
Toronto 80,000
Montreal 150,000
Toronto 60-80,000
Vancouver 35,000
Winnipeg 5,700
Denmark
Copenhagen 40,000
Germany
Berlin 500,000
Stuttgart 50,000
England/Wales
London 2,000,000
Egypt
Cairo 2,000
Finland
Helsinki 15,000
France
Paris 300,000
Toulouse 10,000
total 550,000
Greece
Athens 200,000
Thessaloniki 25,000
Hungary
Budapest 20,000
Ireland (South)
Dublin 150,000
Ireland (North)
Belfast 20,000
India
Culcatta 10,000
Iraq
Baghdad 100,000
Israel
Tel Aviv 3,000
Italy
Rome 3,000,000
Monza 5,000
Turin 1,500
Japan
Tokyo 25,000
Osaka 1,000
Kazakhstan
Almaty 50
Korea
Seoul 10,000
Netherlands
Amsterdam 70,000
New Zealand
Auckland 10,000
Wellington 3,000
Norway
Oslo 60,000
Trondheim 11,000
Bergen 8,000
Portugal
Lisboa - 100.000
Porto -10.000
Coimbra 5.000
Ukraine
Kiev 2,000
Palestine
Gaza 15,000
Phillipines
Manila 6,000
Poland
Warsaw 3,000
Russia
Moscow 1,000
Scotland
Glasgow 80,000
Spain
Barcelona 1,500,000
Madrid 1,000,000
Sevilla 250,000
Oviedo 200,000
Cadiz 100,000
Las Palmas 100,000
Malaga 50,000
Santander 35,000
Andalusia 20,000
Algeciras 15,000
Ferrol 15,000
Lugo 12,000
Huesca 5,000
Syria
Damascus 250,000
Thailand
Pattani 10,000
Bangkok 3,000
Turkey
Istanbul 5,000
United States
New York 500,000
Lansing 10,000
Chicago 7,000
Milwaukee 5,000
Seattle 25,000
Los Angeles 100,000
San Francisco 250,000
South Africa
Capetown 5,000
Johannesburg 8,000
Durban 1,000
Sweden
Stockholm 80,000
Gothenburg 30,000
Umea 2,700
Lulea 1,100
Switzerland
Bern 40,000
United States
New York 500,000
Lansing 10,000
Chicago 7,000
Milwaukee 5,000
Seattle 25,000
Los Angeles 100,000
San Francisco 250,000
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