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Britain
Fight-back!:

03/09/2010: The only antidote to painful public-sector cuts

  Britain

Venezuela
Activists, including CWI members, arrested and detained by state forces

03/09/2010: Repression and criminalisation of struggle is not socialism!

  Venezuela

Brazil
Support the Plinio de Arruda Sampaio campaign!

02/09/2010: A socialist candidate for the Brazilian presidential elections

  Brazil

Nigeria
Goodluck Jonathan Presidency

02/09/2010: Can Nigeria experience positive development and improved living conditions?

  Nigeria

South Africa
Public sector struggle continues

01/09/2010: Say no to job cuts and poverty wages!

  South Africa

Britain
ConDem government plans to slash council services

01/09/2010: Do local councillors have ‘no choice’? – Lessons from 1980s Liverpool Council struggle

  Britain

Poland
30th anniversary of Solidarnosc

31/08/2010: The celebrations of the 30th anniversary of Solidarity take place against the background of attacks and an unprecedented media campaign against today’s trade unions and workers.

  Poland

Russia
President Medvedev suspends Khimkinskii motorway construction

31/08/2010: Struggle must continue to save environment and to win democratic rights!

  Russia

Scotland
SNP relegate independence in wake of economic crisis

31/08/2010: SNP are putting independence on the backburner

  Scotland

Theory
Is “human nature” a barrier to socialism?

30/08/2010: Aren’t people motivated by money? Wouldn’t socialism stifle hard work and innovation?

  Theory

 Kazakhstan
Urgent protests needed

29/08/2010: Lawyer attacked and arrested in run-up to Euro MP’s visit

  Kazakhstan, Solidarity

"Charity"
Let them eat cake, not the crumbs off the table ...

29/08/2010: Business and media circles are agog at “the most significant development in philanthropy” for many decades.

  World Economy

US
Stolen Legacy - The Tea Party’s March on Washington

28/08/2010: On August 28, the right-wing populist Tea Party Movement, an assortment of conservative organizations, and Fox News commentator Glenn Beck will descend on Washington, D.C. for the so-called “Restoring the Honor” rally.

  US

Australia
Neither big business party given mandate to govern

28/08/2010: The Australian Federal election held on August 21 delivered a hung parliament – the first in 70 years. Neither the Labor Party led by Julia Gillard nor the Coalition led by Tony Abbott won the 76 seats required to form a government. The result is both a reflection of the lack of enthusiasm people have towards the two major parties and a reflection of the uncertain future that faces Australian capitalism.

  Australia

Bangladesh
fighting poverty pay

27/08/2010: Strike and protest action in around 4,000 factories

  Bangladesh

Pakistan emergency
Women and children most at risk in flood-hit areas

27/08/2010: “Criminal negligence” of government and the super-rich

  Pakistan

Northern Ireland
Dissident republicanism Nothing to offer but a return to sectarian killings

27/08/2010: Accordging to the Police Federation of Northern Ireland, dissident republican groups have been responsible for carrying out an average of two attacks a day since the beginning of the year.

  Ireland North

Britain
London firefighters balloting for action

27/08/2010: Up to 1,000 firefighters poured into the conference room of TUC headquarters for a mass meeting of the London Fire Brigades Union (FBU) on Tuesday night (24 August).

  Britain

Hungary
Saying ‘NO’ to the IMF?

26/08/2010: The Hungarian parliamentary elections in April 2010 secured a landslide victory for the conservative FIDESZ party, with their leader Victor Orbán retaking the Prime Ministerial position that he had held from 1998 to 2002.

  Hungary

Chile
Miners found alive!

25/08/2010: The government hid information to the families for hours

  Chile

 Britain
Protest against brutal attack on Russian activists continue

25/08/2010: London Socialist Party members travelled to Watford (North of London) to deliver a protest letter to the Vinci regional office.

  Britain, Solidarity

 Russia
“We will not relent in our struggle”!

25/08/2010: Solidarity message from socialist brutally assaulted by thugs

  Russia, Solidarity

South Africa
Government threatens right to strike...

24/08/2010: DSM demands: General Strike to support public sector workers

  South Africa

29 September
Europe braced for working class action across borders

24/08/2010: Towards a 24 hour all-European general strike!

  Europe

Britain
Student demo should be start of the fightback

24/08/2010: With thousands of young people being denied a university place, facing a substandard education, forced into low paid work or left on the scrapheap of unemployment, a nationally organised fightback is essential.

  Britain, Youth

 Pakistan
Emergency demands massive response

23/08/2010: Workers in Europe donate

  Pakistan, Solidarity

France
The decay of Sarkozy’s government

23/08/2010: Racism, corruption, economic crisis and class struggle

  France

 Theory
New introduction to The Transitional Programme

21/08/2010: Trotsky’s key 1938 work shows rich application of the method of Marxism

  CWI, Theory, Trotsky

Anniversary
“The Trotsky conundrum”

20/08/2010: 70 years on from his asasination, is it “Springtime for Trotsky?”

  Trotsky

Malaysia
Three day protest by more than 5,000 migrant workers

20/08/2010: Employers bow down to their demands

  Malaysia

 Solidarity
Protests in Austria, Belgium and Ireland

19/08/2010: Response to brutal attacks on Russian activists

  Solidarity

 Pakistan
Workers’ solidarity urgently needed

19/08/2010: TWENTY MILLION people affected, over 1,600 dead and thousands face starvation, but the Pakistan government’s lacklustre response and incompetence has made the disaster worse.

  Pakistan, Solidarity


Video

Joe Higgins first speech to European parliament

www.socialistworld.net, 21/07/2009
website of the committee for a workers' international, CWI

Socialist MEP launches attack on capitalist representatives

socialistworld.net

Here in Socialist Party (CWI in Ireland) MEP Joe Higgins� first speech in the European Parliament he talks about the grand coalition between the right wing EPP and supposed �social democrats� in Europe. Only allowed one minute to speak, Joe also spoke of the attempt being made to force the Irish people into accepting the neo-liberal Lisbon Treaty through a second referendum in October.





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