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Turkey
“Warlike violence” to crush the movement

20/06/2013: New layer of workers, youth and poor has entered the scene with the promise: “This is just the beginning – the struggle continues”

Turkey
Stop the repression

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

Brazil
Protest spreading

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

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

G8 summit
No to G8 austerity

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

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

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

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

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.

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’

Greece
Government shuts down state broadcaster ERT

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

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

Turkey
“Vandals” continue to fight back

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

G8
Join the protest!

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

Turkey
International solidarity protests

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

Obituary
Comrade Kemelo Ernest Mokgalagadi

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

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

Syria
Conflict threatens to spread across the Middle East

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

Syria

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

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!

Turkey

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

Boycotting Israel
The socialist view

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

Israel / Palestine

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.