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Kazakhstan: Campaign leader sentenced to ten days in prison
Britain: No to terrorism! No to racism! No to war!
Tunisia: the Ministry of Women excuses violations against women rights
Germany: DIE LINKE and the Euro
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 Kazakhstan: Campaign leader sentenced to ten days in prison

23/05/2013: MEP demands immediate release of Housing Campaigners - solidarity still needed

  Kazakhstan, Solidarity

Britain: No to terrorism! No to racism! No to war!

23/05/2013: Statement on Woolwich killing

  Britain

 Tunisia: the Ministry of Women excuses violations against women rights

23/05/2013: In the «most developped country for women in the Arab world», the struggle for women rights remains more relevant than ever

  Tunisia, Women

Germany: DIE LINKE and the Euro

23/05/2013: After Lafontaine’s proposal to get rid of the Euro – what should the left say?

  Germany, New workers' parties

 Ireland: Tax haven for multinational corporations

22/05/2013: How Ireland is used as a tax haven by multinational corporations while the government is preparing to steal the property tax from people’s wages, social welfare and pensions

  Ireland Republic, Video

Germany: Strike at Amazon

22/05/2013: Union-agreed rates could bring Amazon workers 9000 euros more a year

  Germany

Taiwan: Sea shooting sees Filipino migrants become target of racist backlash

21/05/2013: Anti-racist campaign needed against corrupt ruling elites and capitalism

  Taiwan

G8 Summit, Northern Ireland: ’Why YOU should oppose the G8’

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.

  Anti-globalisation, Ireland North

Iran: What would a Rafsanjani presidency mean?

18/05/2013: Iran’s June 14 presidential election takes place against the background of deep divisions in society and the regime.

  Iran

Australia: Labour approves WA’s first uranium mine

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.

  Australia, Environment

New Zealand: Racism and recession in New Zealand

15/05/2013: Working class unity needed to defend rights and living standards

  New Zealand

Australian budget: Say ‘NO’ to the cuts agenda of the major parties

14/05/2013: We shouldn’t let either of the major parties tell us that ‘tough decisions’ or ‘hard cuts’ are required.

  Australia

Ireland: ‘Bus Eireann workers in front line of class war - We should all support them!’

13/05/2013: Bus workers take strike action over savage wage cuts and attacks on conditions

  Ireland Republic

Italy: The economic crisis becomes a political and institutional crisis

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.

  Italy

Malaysia: Election ’victory’ based on fraud

10/05/2013: Ruling Barisan Nasional’s widespread fraud enrages opposition supporters and young people

  Malaysia

Greece: Challenging the Golden Dawn

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.

  Greece

British county elections: Capitalist parties rejected

10/05/2013: Time for a new mass workers’ party

  Britain

Tunisia: The calm before the storm

09/05/2013: New clashes on the horizon

  Tunisia

Pakistan: General elections held amid political turmoil

08/05/2013: Big landlords, capitalists and influential families are calling the shots

  Pakistan

Sri Lanka: Successful May Day

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.

  May Day, Sri Lanka

Hong Kong: Dockworkers’ strike ends after 40 days

07/05/2013: Union representatives declare a “half success” with a pay rise of 9.8 percent – but important issues are unresolved

  Hong Kong

Britain’s ’precariat’: Fighting for real jobs

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.

  Britain, Youth

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South Africa: Mass retrenchment threat in mining industry demands mass action

18/05/2013: Workers and Socialist Party calls for one-day-general strike

DSM (CWI South Africa) reporters


  South Africa

comment & analysis

Nigeria
President Jonathan declares state of emergency

21/05/2013: An expressway to attacks on democratic rights! For democratic mass working peoples’ defence committees!

Segun Sango, Protem National Chairperson, Socialist Party of Nigeria

  Nigeria

World economy
"Central banks are flying blind"

19/05/2013: Increasing concerns and contradictions

Per-Åke Westerlund, from Offensiv, newspaper of Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (CWI Sweden)

  World Economy

Turkey / Kurdistan
PKK announces ceasefire

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.

Festus Okay, Sosyalist Alternatif (CWI Turkey)

  Kurdistan, Turkey

 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

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