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21/05/2013: Anti-racist campaign needed against corrupt ruling elites and capitalism
21/05/2013: An expressway to attacks on democratic rights! For democratic mass
working peoples’ defence committees!
20/05/2013: This year’s G8 summit will be held in County Fermanagh, Northern
Ireland, on 17th – 18th June. This gathering brings together the heads
of government of eight of the world’s largest capitalist economies to
discuss how they can further the interests of those they represent – the
super-rich, big business and the bankers.
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.
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|  29/09/2012, The large Nato force has been unable to defeat a vastly poorer force of
Taliban-led fighters estimated at less than 25,000.
Editorial of the Socialist, paper of the Socialist
Party (CWI England & Wales)
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|  23/12/2010, Joe Higgins MEP on the devastation and slaughter of the war on
Afghanistan
Joe Higgins, MEP, Socialist Party (CWI Ireland)
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|  20/10/2010, 9 years after invasion and occupation
Niall Mulholland, CWI
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|  10/09/2010, Ten months after President Obama announced he would add 31,000 more
United States troops to the war in Afghanistan, his surge is showing
signs of failing.
Patrick Ayers, Socialist Alternative (CWI USA)
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|  08/08/2010, The concerted might of the strongest and largest military force in the
world, that of the US, is failing to defeat the disparate and crudely
equipped Taliban militias in one of the poorest countries of the world.
From the Socialist, newspaper of the Socialist
Party (CWI England & Wales)
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|  30/06/2010, Obama’s dismissal of general reveals military crisis
Niall Mulholland, from The Socialist (weekly paper of the Socialist
Party, CWI England and Wales)
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|  22/02/2010, Pro-establishment parties plan huge cuts programme after new elections
Pieter Brans, Offensief (CWI supporters in Netherlands), Amsterdam
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|  08/01/2010, End the Occupation! Troops Home Now!
Dan DiMaggio, Socialist Alternative (CWI in the USA)
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| 06/11/2009, Karzai appointment will only deepen crisis
Cedric Gerome, CWI |
| 04/09/2009, Will it make any difference?
Khalid Bhatti, Socialist Movement Pakistan (CWI in Pakistan) |
| 13/08/2009, Rising casualties in an un-winnable war
Peter Hadden, Socialist Party (CWI in Northern Ireland) |
| 16/05/2009, Western-backed elite enrich themselves as vast majority live in poverty
Dave Carr, from The Socialist, weekly paper of the Socialist Party (CWI
England&Wales) |
| 11/10/2006, Why is the Taliban resurgent?
Khalid Bhatti, SMP (CWI in Pakistan) |
| 08/11/2005, Low turnout poll ‘elects’ new reactionary parliament
Khalid Bhatti, Socialist Movement Pakistan (CWI), Lahore. |
| 21/10/2004, Tony Blair and George Bush, both seeking re-election, are desperately
trying to put a good light on the deteriorating situation in Iraq.
James Kerr and Dave Carr, Socialist Party |
| 07/10/2004, US-sponsored elections regarded "a joke"
Khalid Bhatti, Socialist Movement (cwi in Pakistan), Lahore |
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CWI statement - 25/10/2001: Afghanistan: cwi anti-war activities - Gent, Florence, Amsterdam,
Berlin, New York, Prague, Finland, Austria, Nigeria, Portugal
Reports compiled by CWI online - 16/10/2001: Afghanistan: cwi anti-war activities - Italy
Reports compiled by CWI online - 16/10/2001: Afghanistan: War takes decisive turn
CWI statement, 16 October 2001 - 15/10/2001: Afghanistan: cwi anti-war activities - Britain
Reports compiled by CWI online - 12/10/2001: Afghanistan: cwi anti-war activities - Ireland
socialistworld.net - 10/10/2001: Afghanistan: cwi anti-war activities - Greece
CWI online - 09/10/2001: Afghanistan: US bombing plunges world into turmoil
CWI Statement 9 October 2001 - 09/10/2001: Afghanistan: cwi: anti-war activities - Berlin
CWI online - 03/10/2001: Afghanistan: cwi anti-war activities - Australia
Dateline: 3 October 2001 - 01/10/2001: Afghanistan: cwi anti-war activities - Washington
socialistworld.net - 01/10/2001: Afghanistan: cwi anti-war activities Index
Compiled by CWI online - 28/09/2001: US: Anti-war protests - Thousands of peace demonstrations
This article first appeared in The
Socialist - 28/09/2001: Afghanistan: Anti-war protests - Around the world
This article first appeared in The
Socialist - 28/09/2001: Afghanistan: Anti-war movement grows
This article first appeared in The
Socialist - 28/09/2001: Afghanistan: Anti-war protests - Voices in the US
Diane Stokes, Socialist
Alternative - 28/09/2001: Afghanistan: After the Taliban - No peace and no justice
CWI statement - 28/09/2001: Afghanistan: No to Bush and Blair’s war!
Christine Thomas - 28/09/2001: Afghanistan: Imperialism’s bloody record
This article first appeared in The
Socialist - 28/09/2001: Afghanistan: Bush’s military nightmare
Dave Carr
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