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Turkey: Stop the repression
Brazil: Protest spreading
Hong Kong: 1,000 demonstrators defend whistleblower Snowden
G8 summit: No to G8 austerity
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 Turkey: Stop the repression

19/06/2013: Socialist MEP condemns police violence during Turkey/ EU trade relations session

  Turkey, Video

Brazil: Protest spreading

18/06/2013: Well over 250,000 in approximately 20 cities took to the streets

  Brazil

Hong Kong: 1,000 demonstrators defend whistleblower Snowden

18/06/2013: Revelations by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden have exposed US hypocrisy over cyber-spying

  Hong Kong

G8 summit: No to G8 austerity

17/06/2013: End the rule of big business, poverty and war

  Anti-globalisation

Pakistan / Sindh province: Stop victimization and union busting of women health workers

15/06/2013: “We will defend our rights and continue fighting”.

  Pakistan

 India: Agitation of Workers at Pune

15/06/2013: Fed up with continued oppression, workers under the banner of ’Pradeep Laminators Workers’ Union’ have started a propaganda campaign against the bosses.

  India, Solidarity

 Turkey: End police brutality - defend anti-government protesters

13/06/2013: MEP Paul Murphy criticises EU foreign policy representative, Catherine Ashton, over calls for ’restraint on all sides’

  Turkey, Video

Greece: Government shuts down state broadcaster ERT

12/06/2013: Unions must organise general strike action now!

  Greece

 Video: Joe Higgins questions Irish Prime Minister about G8 summit

12/06/2013: Socialist MP slams huge security operation and anti-working class record of world leaders

  Video

Turkey: “Vandals” continue to fight back

11/06/2013: Erdogan seeks trial of strength with mass protests

  Turkey

 G8: Join the protest!

11/06/2013: Oppose the summit of capitalist leaders, argues Paul Murphy in the European Parliament

  Anti-globalisation, Video

 Turkey: International solidarity protests

11/06/2013: Report from London, with CWI comment on the developments in Turkey

  Turkey, Video

Obituary: Comrade Kemelo Ernest Mokgalagadi

11/06/2013: A genuine working class fighter and a revolutionary socialist

  Obituary, South Africa

Turkey: Solidarity is vital to show protesters the world is watching

10/06/2013: 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”.

  Turkey

Hong Kong: Tiananmen vigil sends a warning to China’s new leaders

08/06/2013: 24th anniversary of Beijing’s crackdown draws 150,000 protestors

  China, Hong Kong

Turkey: Solidarity with the mass protests

08/06/2013: Paul Murphy to visit heart of Turkish Protests

  Turkey

France: Fatal fascist violence in Paris

07/06/2013: 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.

  France

Germany: Blockupy protests

07/06/2013: Police repression in the belly of the beast

  Germany

G8: MEPs send message of solidarity to anti-G8 protestors

06/06/2013: 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.

  Anti-globalisation, Ireland North, Ireland Republic

Russia: CWI conference discusses perspectives for Putin’s regime

05/06/2013: Unrest grows over economic and social issues

  Russia

Scotland: Thousands attend anti-bedroom tax protest in Glasgow

04/06/2013: 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.

  Scotland

G8: Armed police and soldiers descend on County Fermanagh

02/06/2013: Secret Services bolster police ahead of G8 Summit in N Ireland

  Anti-globalisation, Ireland North

China / Hong Kong: Remembering 4 June 1989

01/06/2013: Vital lessons for today’s democracy struggle

  China, Hong Kong

Britain: TUSC and the road to a new workers’ party

30/05/2013: Rising support for UKIP shows both the erosion of established party loyalties and the existence of a profound vacuum of working-class political representation.

  Britain, New workers' parties

 Europe: Austerity and unemployment across the continent

29/05/2013: EU council meeting: Another attempt to put the burden of the capitalist crisis on the shoulders of youth and working people

  Europe, Video

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Brazil: Mass struggles resurface as weight of crisis is felt

16/06/2013: Mass demonstrations against the increase of bus fares in all major cities

André Ferrari LSR (CWI in Brazil)


  Brazil

comment & analysis

Syria
Conflict threatens to spread across the Middle East

08/06/2013: Urgent need for independent working class socialist organisations

Peter Taaffe, general secretary Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)

  Syria

Turkey
Mass movement challenges Erdogan government

04/06/2013: Public sector workers take strike action against police violence – For a one day general strike as a next step to bring down the government!

Sosyalist Alternatif (CWI Turkey) Reporters

  Turkey

Boycotting Israel
The socialist view

31/05/2013: ‘Boycott, divestment and sanctions’- questions and answers about the BDS campaign

Judy Beishon, first published in Socialism Today, magazine of the Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)

  Israel / Palestine

 Women and the struggle for socialism
It doesn’t have to be like this

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.

Christine Thomas, Controcorrente (CWI Italy)

  Women

Cyprus
On the edge of a catastrophic slump

25/04/2013: Socialist polices needed to resolve crisis in the interests of majority

Niall Mulholland, CWI

  Cyprus

Venezuela
After the death of Hugo Chávez

24/03/2013: Radical, populist policies and anti-imperialism helped transform the political situation

Tony Saunois, CWI, a shorter version of this article was first published in Socialism Today, magazine of the Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales

  Venezuela

Iraq
Ten years since ‘shock and awe’

20/03/2013: Imperialism’s harvest of death and destruction

Niall Mulholland, from The Socialist, weekly newspaper of the Socialist Party (CWI England and Wales)

  Iraq

 March 8th
The day of international working women’s solidarity

07/03/2013: Beware the anger of women against the bosses’ system!

Clare Doyle, CWI

  Women

Tunisia
‘Buckshot’ Ali Larayedh appointed prime minister

27/02/2013: Down with the Ennahdha regime! Down with the system!

CWI supporters in Tunisia

  Tunisia

Italy
Voters reject austerity in ‘tsunami’ election

27/02/2013: Political instability, crisis and new opportunities ahead

Chris Thomas, Controcorrente (CWI in Italy)

  Italy

Germany
A crucial stage for the Left Party

23/02/2013: A few years ago Germany’s Left Party, Die Linke, was seen as a model for the emergence of new, united, left-wing parties in Europe…

Sascha Stanicic, Sozialistische Alternative (CWI in Germany)

  Germany

South Africa
Democratic Socialist Movement national conference

13/02/2013: Hardening solid gold

Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI in South Africa)

  South Africa

Tunisia
General strike rocks the country

13/02/2013: Whip of counter-revolution must lead to renewed struggle on social and economic issues

Article followed by an interview with Dali Malik, CWI supporter in Tunisia

  Tunisia

Italy
February election likely to end in stalemate

26/01/2013: Plethora of parties and coalitions but none that represent workers’ need for a fight

Clare Doyle, in conjunction with Marco Veruggio, Controcorrente (CWI, Italy)

  Italy

World Perspectives
Age of austerity preparing seismic convulsions

12/12/2012: We are living through one of the most dramatic periods in history

Document adopted by the December 2012 meeting of the International Executive Committee of the CWI

  CWI Comment And Analysis

Ireland
Economic and social issues preparing an explosion

29/11/2012: Anti-household tax struggle sinks deep roots as signs of increased anger against austerity emerge

Kevin Mcloughlin, Socialist Party (CWI in Ireland)

  Ireland Republic

South Africa
Striking miners take an important step forward

16/10/2012: National Strike Coordinating Committee launched on 13 October

Democratic Socialist Movement, DSM (CWI South Africa)

  South Africa

Venezuelean elections 2012
Chávez defeats the right

10/10/2012: But socialist policies needed.

Tony Saunois, Caracas

  Venezuela

Europe
Autumn resurgence of class struggle

04/10/2012: Time to strike a united blow against EU/Troika austerity! For a European-wide day of general strikes and mobilisations this autumn! Towards a 24-hour all-European general strike!

CWI statement

  CWI Comment And Analysis

Europe’s car industry
Another crisis in the making

27/09/2012: For a European-wide and international strategy of the trade unions to defend factories, jobs and working conditions

Stephan Kimmerle, CWI

  Car industry, Europe, World Economy

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