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Britain: A rotten system!
World and British economic crisis continues
Peter Taaffe, from Socialism Today, Issue 130, July/August 2009
(monthly journal of the Socialist Party – CWI England and Wales)
Monday 29 June 2009
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Sri Lanka: "War victory" celebrated
National question remains unresolved
Siritunga Jayasuriya, United Socialist Party (CWI, Sri Lanka), Thursday 2 July 2009
Britain: Confident and enthusiastic national shop stewards' conference
Conference reflects on victories and discusses the way forward
Socialist Party reporters (CWI in England & Wales), Thursday 2 July 2009
Latvia: Economy in Freefall
IMF and EU’s poisonous “medicine”
Per Olsonn, Rattvisepartiet Socialisterna (CWI in Sweden), Wednesday 1 July 2009
Sweden: Pakistani ferry workers win right to permanent visas
“This is a major victory!”
Arne Johansson, Rättvisepartiet Socilaisterna (CWI Sweden), Tuesday 30 June 2009
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Britain: Lindsey oil refinery strikers win stunning victory
Militant action pays!
Alistair Tice, Socialist Party (CWI England and Wales), Friday 26 June 2009
Ireland: Socialist success in euro election
Governing Fianna Fáil suffer devastating setback - Is Labour an alternative?
Kevin McLoughlin, Socialist Party (CWI Ireland), Friday 26 June 2009
Iran: Three weeks of revolutionary crisis
Splits in the ruling Islamist-capitalist class
Per-Åke Westerlund (CWI Sweden), Thursday 25 June 2009
Britain: Lindsey refinery dispute:
Workers show their strength
Keith Gibson, Lindsey oil refinery strike committee, Wednesday 24 June 2009
Iran: Where now for the Iranian revolution?
Working class must decisively enter struggle
Tony Saunois, CWI, Monday 22 June 2009
Northern Ireland: Unite against racist attacks!
Anti-racist campaigner receives death threats
Socialist Party reporters (CWI in Northern Ireland), Friday 19 June 2009
Britain: Oil refinery strikes defy anti-trade union laws
Support strikers at Lindsey oil refinery!
Socialist Party reporters (CWI in England & Wales), Friday 19 June 2009
Germany: Mass protests in Germany the high point of a one-week education strike
Only the beginning of a powerful movement against government attacks
Anne Engelhardt, SAV (CWI in Germany), Thursday 18 June 2009
Nigeria: Soweto massacre anniversary arrests - 4 activists freed
Struggle for decent public education continues
H.T Soweto, National Coordinator, Education Rights Campaign (ERC), Thursday 18 June 2009
Sweden: ‘Wild cat’ strike at warehouse
For defence of jobs and working conditions!
From Mattias Bernhardsson and Joel Eriksso, Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (CWI Sweden), on the picket line, Wednesday 17 June 2009
Nigeria: Police forcefully disperse youth and students’ rally commemorating the 1976 Soweto massacre in Lagos
Release the arrested activists Now!
Segun Sango, General secretary, Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM – CWI in Nigeria), Wednesday 17 June 2009
Germany: SAV City Councillor re-elected in Rostock
SAV consolidates roots in the community and defends seat
SAV reporters (CWI in Germany), Saturday 13 June 2009
Britain: Rob Williams reinstatement a victory for all workers
Workers’ solidarity forces Linamar bosses back
Socialist Party reporters (CWI in England & Wales), Friday 12 June 2009
Lebanon: Opposition wins “peoples' majority”, pro-government block wins parliamentary majority
Renewed crisis - no alternative on offer
Aysha Zaki, CWI Lebanon, Friday 12 June 2009
Peru: Alan Garcia’s Peruvian government massacres indigenous Amazonians
Bloody attempt to impose neo-liberal capitalism in the Amazon jungle of Peru
Celso Calfullan, Socialismo Revolucionario (CWI in Chile), Friday 12 June 2009
Sri Lanka: Defiant march for media freedom in Colombo
Beginnings of fight-back against dictatorial Rajapakse regime
Socialistworld.net, Thursday 11 June 2009
Britain: Rob Williams reinstated!
Victory in fight against victimisation of trade unionists!
Socialist Party reporters, CWI in England & Wales, Wednesday 10 June 2009
Euro elections 2009: Europe on the edge
Little or no confidence in governments, but no genuine socialist alternative
Robert Bechert, CWI, Wednesday 10 June 2009
Britain: New Labour melt-down
Fighting socialist leadership needed
Peter Taaffe, General Secretary, Socialist Party (CWI, England and Wales), Tuesday 9 June 2009
Britain: Unison (public sector union) NEC elections
Left-right balance unchanged with gains for the Socialist Party
Socialist Party reporters (CWI in England & Wales), Tuesday 9 June 2009
Ireland: Audio: Joe Higgins victory interview
Socialist Party MEP responds to election
Socialistworld.net, Tuesday 9 June 2009
Ireland: Joe Higgins elected as MEP!
Sensational victory for Socialist Party (CWI in Ireland)
Socialist Party reporters (CWI in Ireland), Monday 8 June 2009
Ireland: UPDATE: Joe Higgins (CWI in Ireland) wins sensational victory in EU elections
Socialists win seat on fighting socialist programme
Socialistworld.net, Monday 8 June 2009
China: 200,000 strong Tiananmen commemoration in Hong Kong
“Not forgotten, not forgiven”
Chinaworker.info, Monday 8 June 2009
Nigeria: Niger Delta crisis - collective working class action needed
JTF must end the occupation now!!
Segun Sango, General secretary, Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI in Nigeria), Monday 8 June 2009
Lebanon: Parliamentary Elections 2009
No alternative on offer as the system repeats itself
Shadi Aoun, Committee for a Workers International (Lebanon), Sunday 7 June 2009
Korean peninsula: Nuclear sabre-rattling
Working class action to end war threat!
Clare Doyle, CWI, Sunday 7 June 2009
US: GM Goes Bankrupt — Defend Jobs!
Retool GM to Produce Mass Transit Vehicles!
Brett Hoven, UAW Local 879 (personal capacity), Socialist Alternative (CWI supporters in the US), Friday 5 June 2009
Poland: On 20th anniversary of collapse of Stalinism in Poland…
Working class finds itself between the class struggle and the union bureaucracy
Ewa Groszewska & Paul Newbery, members of August 80 union, Committee for the Aid and Defence of Victimised Workers, and Polish Labour Party, Thursday 4 June 2009
Ireland: Socialist Party puts in huge efforts in Local and European Election campaigns
Mass media talks of possibility that Joe Higgins, Socialist Party, could challenge for MEP seat
Kevin McLoughlin, Socialist Party (CWI in Ireland), Dublin, Wednesday 3 June 2009
Germany: “I was, I am, I will be!”
Speculation that Rosa Luxemburg's corpse lies in Berlin hospital
Sascha Stanicic, SAV (CWI Germany) Berlin, Tuesday 2 June 2009
Spain: General strike in Basque country
Spanish capitalism in deep crisis
Danny Byrne, CWI, Spain, Monday 1 June 2009
China: 8,000 march in Hong Kong to commemorate Tiananmen massacre
Highest turnout since early 1990s shows that legacy of “6/4” (June 4th massacre) remains a powerful factor among Chinese people
Vincent Kolo, chinaworker.info, Monday 1 June 2009
Brazil: LSR - Liberty, Socialism and Revolution is born
An example of principled unity against a background of splits and fragmentation on the left
André Ferrari, National Committee of LSR - Liberty, Socialism and Revolution, Thursday 28 May 2009
Bolivia: ‘NO’ to the Dismissal of 152 Water Service Workers!
To fight the economic crisis, we need socialist, not neoliberal, solutions
Revolutionary Socialista Alternative (ASR, CIT-Bolivia), Wednesday 27 May 2009
Brazil: Liberdade, Socialismo e Revolução launched
Succesful unification congress between SR (former CWI section) and the CLS
socialistworld.net, Tuesday 26 May 2009
Germany: Die Linke excludes leading SAV members in Germany
But political arguments of the right-wing defeated
By SAV correspondents, Tuesday 26 May 2009
Britain: A Very British Revolution?
For an extension of genuine democracy
Peter Taaffe, General Secretary, Socialist Party, cwi in England and Wales, Saturday 23 May 2009
Sri Lanka: United Socialist Party leader on death list
Days of victory celebrations humiliating all Tamils
Elizabeth Clarke, CWI, Saturday 23 May 2009
Britain: Swindling MPs are detached from reality
No MP to receive more than the average wage of a skilled worker!
Editorial from The Socialist, weekly paper of the Socialist Party (CWI England and Wales), Friday 22 May 2009
Latvia: Unprecedented economic collapse
IMF and EU blackmail means misery for workers
Per Olsson, Rattvisepartiet Socialisterna (CWI in Sweden), Thursday 21 May 2009
Kashmir: Health workers’ struggle wins demands
First ever victor for health department service workers
Jamal Khan, Trade Unions Rights Campaign Kashmir (TURCK), Wednesday 20 May 2009
China: Thousands of college students in Nanjing city clash with police
Authorities nervous in lead up to Tiananmen 1989 massacre
From chinaworker.info, Wednesday 20 May 2009
Germany: 100,000 on union demonstration
Workers on the streets - but union leaders face the wrong way!
Sascha Stanicic, Sozialistische Alternative (SAV - CWI in Germany), Tuesday 19 May 2009
Sri Lanka: Defeat for ‘Tigers’ deepens Tamil people’s grievances
Rajapakse government cannot fulfil needs of workers and poor
Elizabeth Clarke, CWI, Monday 18 May 2009
Belgium: 50,000-strong Brussels demonstration joins 300,000 other trade unionists across Europe fighting for jobs
Now workers’ all-European action plan for jobs needed!
Eric Byl, Linkse Socialistische Partij / Parti Socialiste de Lutte (the CWI in Belgium), Brussels, Monday 18 May 2009
Gaza: The nightmare continues
New ‘peace talks’ will not lead to genuine Palestinian state
Niall Mulholland, CWI, Saturday 16 May 2009
Afghanistan: Imperialism sucked deeper into the quagmire
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), Saturday 16 May 2009
Spain: Devastating impact of the economic crisis
Class battles brewing
Nick Auvache, CWI, in Spain, Friday 15 May 2009
Australia: Working people yet to see full effects of economic downturn
One million unemployed forecast & anti-union legislation intact - Socialist solutions urgently needed!
Mel Gregson, Socialist Party (CWI in Australia), Thursday 14 May 2009
Britain: Sweep away the thieves and their system
‘Fish rot from the head first’.
Editorial from The Socialist, paper of the Socialist Pary, cwi in England and Wales, Tuesday 12 May 2009
US: Modern capitalism and the “Swine Flu” outbreak
Disaster worsened by profit system
Andy Moxley and Aleida Vilchez, Socialist Alternative (CWI in USA), Monday 11 May 2009
South Africa: ANC returned to power in landslide
As class polarisation continues, black working class voters vest their hopes in Zuma …for now!
Weizmann Hamilton, Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI in South Africa), Saturday 9 May 2009
Iceland: “Left” election victory but no left policies
Crisis deepens – three companies go bankrupt every day
Mattias Bernhardsson and Skuli Jon Kristinsson, Reykjavik, Iceland, Friday 8 May 2009
Britain: Decisive action needed against victimisations
Defend Rob Williams!
Editorial, the Socialist, paper of the Socialist Party (CWI in England & Wales), Friday 8 May 2009
May Day 2009: Workers and youth mark May Day in Israel and Belgium
More reports from around the world
Socialistworld.net, Friday 8 May 2009
Britain: Rob Williams, union Convenor at Linamar plant, Swansea, sacked by brutal bosses
Step up the struggle - Messages of protest needed urgently!
Socialist Party (England and Wales CWI) Statement, Thursday 7 May 2009
Britain and Northern Ireland: Visteon car workers show - Action gets results
Struggle ends in victory!
Socialist Party reporters (CWI in England & Wales), Wednesday 6 May 2009
Austria: Police attack anti-fascists on May Day
Brutality inflicted on peaceful protest
Will Peek and Sonja Grusch, Socialist Left Party (SLP - CWI in Austria), Wednesday 6 May 2009
May Day 2009: Workers make their voices heard around the world
Marches and protests mark international workers’ day
Socialistworld.net, Tuesday 5 May 2009
Ireland: Lessons of the Waterford Crystal plant occupation
Nationalisation was the only option!
Cillian Gillespie and Stephen Boyd, Socialist Party (CWI in Ireland), Friday 1 May 2009
Lebanon: May Day - Workers need to build their own alternative!
Living conditions deteriorate due to neo-liberal politics and private sector mafia
Text of CWI Lebanon May Day 2009 leaflet, Thursday 30 April 2009
Austria: 60,000 school students strike on 24 April
Growing unrest among workers and youth
Laura Rafetseder, Socialist Left Party (CWI in Austria), Thursday 30 April 2009
Britain: UPDATE - Linamar management forced to withdraw sacking of leading trade unionist
Bosses forced to the negotiation table
Socialist Party reporters (CWI in England & Wales), Wednesday 29 April 2009
Britain: Leading union activist Rob Williams sacked
Reinstate Linamar car plant union convenor now – Messages of support urgently needed!
Socialist Party (cwi England and Wales) Press Release, Tuesday 28 April 2009
History: Spanish civil war
Defeat snatched from the jaws of victory
Hannah Sell, Socialist Party (CWI in England & Wales), Monday 27 April 2009
Sri Lanka: Bloody end to war, no end to national conflict
Socialists continue fight against Rajapakse dictatorship
Clare Doyle, from Socialism Today, magazine of the Socialist Party (CWI in England & Wales), Sunday 26 April 2009
Britain: British budget and the economic crisis
“Green shoots” of economic revival?
Video interview with Peter Taaffe, Socialist Party (CWI in England & Wales), Friday 24 April 2009
Egypt: 6 April “Day of Anger” - Call from activists for jobs and democratic rights
Strikes and occupations grow - workers’ party with socialist policies needed!
CWI reporter in Egypt, Friday 24 April 2009
Sri Lanka: Stop the slaughter of Tamils
Joe Higgins attacks Sri Lankan government in Irish Daily Mail
Joe Higgins, Socialist Party (CWI in Ireland) article from Irish Daily Mail, 22 April 2009,, Thursday 23 April 2009
China: Tiananmen 1989 – seven weeks that shook the world
20th anniversary
Chinaworker.info, Thursday 23 April 2009
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