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Egypt
Mubarak’s state machine behind football stadium massacre

05/02/2012: 74 killed in horrific scenes

Ireland
Joe Higgins addresses packed anti-household tax meeting

04/02/2012: Joe Higgins argues in Cork, 26 January, to resist the household tax: "Yes, we have a choice!"

Belgium
January 30 General Strike

03/02/2012: A strike corresponding to the level of anger over austerity programme

EU summit
No capitalist solutions to the spiralling eurozone crisis

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.

Nigeria
Story of the great general strike

02/02/2012: A socialist view on recent showdown between government and people

Italy
Dozens of No TAV activists arrested

01/02/2012: The repression will not stop the movement!

World
Capitalist chaos – class struggle sharpens

01/02/2012: CWI – a socialist analysis

Socialism
Answering Common Questions

31/01/2012: Frequently asked questions

Kazakhstan
Free Vadim Kuramshin!

31/01/2012: Urgent solidarity needed

CWI International Meeting
Revolution and counter-revolution in North Africa and the Middle East

31/01/2012: The lessons of the first waves of revolutionary movements

Africa, CWI Comment And Analysis, Middle East

Kazakhstan
‘Labour Start’ editor makes outrageous claims against oil workers and CWI

31/01/2012: Worldwide solidarity campaign means the Kazakhstan regime can no longer deny 16 December massacre

Tunisia
“The mass of people continue to struggle”

31/01/2012: Interview with two Tunisian socialists, one year after the fall of Ben Ali

US
For an independent Left challenge in Presidential elections

30/01/2012: Fight Against Corporate Politics

US
Capitalist crisis and the occupy movement

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

Climate change
Dithering in Durban

30/01/2012: Once again, a United Nations-sponsored climate change conference has completely failed to address the issue of global warming.

Cyprus
Partial general strike paralyses public sector

29/01/2012: December’s industrial action against austerity just the beginning of the fight-back!

Asia
Feeling the coming storm

29/01/2012: Whole continent on the verge of major social convulsions and political shocks

Asia, CWI Comment And Analysis

Latin America
No escape from world crisis

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

CWI Comment And Analysis, Latin America

China
“I was arrested by China’s Secret Police”.

27/01/2012: CWI’s Zhang Shujie speaks out at hearing in Sweden’s parliament

China

CWI International Meeting
Upturn in class struggles across Europe

26/01/2012: Euro-zone crisis deepens

CWI, Europe

27/01/2012: China: “I was arrested by China’s Secret Police”.
26/01/2012: China: ‘Long Hair’ to attend Stockholm hearing on state repression
12/01/2012: CWI’s Zhang Shujie forced to flee China

China

200,000 strong Tiananmen commemoration in Hong Kong

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“Not forgotten, not forgiven”

Chinaworker.info

In 2 articles linked below, Vincent Kolo of Chinaworker.info reports on the mass commemoration vigil held in Hong Kong on the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen square massacre, 1989.

Hong Kong’s Tiananmen vigil: “Not forgotten, not forgiven”

150,000 turnout in Hong Kong for 20th anniversary of "6/4" massacre