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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.
29/04/2013: Writing off of any debt accrued due to the bedroom tax, supporting the
building of new social housing, opposing all cuts and austerity measures
28/04/2013: Socialist policies needed
28/04/2013: SSM member, Suiher Daska and other left candidates were elected to the
leadership of the union on the background of the coming struggles
against austerity
28/04/2013: "Still Counting the Dead: Survivors of Sri Lanka’s hidden war" by
Frances Harrison
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 Europesee also: Website of Paul Murphy,
MEP (member of the European Parliament) for the Socialist Party (CWI
Ireland) |
|  30/04/2013, Irish Presidency brought unprecedented levels of cuts to the EU budget.
Paul Murphy MEP and Kevin Henry, Socialist
Party (CWI Ireland), first published in the Irish Left Review
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|  13/03/2013, Yesterday, Shimon Peres, the Israeli President, was met by protests as
he visited Strasbourg to address the European Parliament
Paul Murphy, Socialist Party MEP
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|  04/01/2013, A government of austerity driving austerity across Europe
Socialist Party (CWI in Ireland) reporters
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|  15/11/2012, A glimpse of the immense power of the working class if action is built
and coordinated across borders
CWI
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|  09/11/2012, Opening towards an all-European strike
CWI Statement
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|  30/10/2012, For a Southern European-wide general strike on 14 November!
CWI Statement
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|  19/10/2012, No desperate accolades from Nobel or anywhere will stop this present
decline or shore up the EU’s biggest faultline - the eurozone crisis.
Editorial of the Socialist, paper of the Socialist
Party (CWI England & Wales)
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|  05/10/2012, Joe Higgins challenges European Parliament President Martin Schulz in
the Dail
Joe Higgins video
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|  27/09/2012, For a European-wide and international strategy of the trade unions to
defend factories, jobs and working conditions
Stephan Kimmerle, CWI
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|  26/07/2012, Huge opportunities for building new workers’ party
Giuliano Brunetti, Controcorrente (CWI in Italy)
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|  20/07/2012, Greece and Spain to fore in Europe’s deepening political, economic and
social crisis
Kevin Parslow, Socialist Party (CWI England and Wales
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|  17/07/2012, For a 48 hour general strike to bring down Rajoy government
John Hird, CWI Spain
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|  16/07/2012, For nationalisation of banks and financial institutions with democratic
public ownership
Editorial from The Socialist, weekly paper of the Socialist Party (CWI
England and Wales)
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|  04/07/2012, Big business agenda defeated by mass campaigning
Socialistworld.net
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|  04/07/2012, “[S]truggle for a society and an economy based on the free exchange of
information, knowledge, and research for the benefit of all”
Socialistworld.net
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|  03/07/2012, Keep up mobilizations to fight for internet freedom
Paul Murphy, MEP, Socialist Party (CWI Ireland)
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Further articles on 'Europe':- 27/06/2012: France set to join Europe’s turmoil
Gauche Révolutionnaire (CWI in France) - 24/06/2012: ACTA: Important victory for campaigners for internet freedom in Europe
Tanja Niemeier, LSP/PSL (CWI Belgium) - 13/06/2012: Spain: New epicentre of crisis in Europe
Danny Byrne, CWI - 24/05/2012: EU: Commissioner questioned on failed austerity policies
Paul Murphy, MEP, Socialist Party (CWI Ireland) - 06/05/2012: The capitalist “vampire squid” and the class struggle in Europe
CWI - 22/04/2012: Argentina/EU: Paul Murphy MEP speaks out over nationalisation of YPF
(Repsol) oil company
Paul Murphy, MEP, Socialist
Party (CWI Ireland) - 20/04/2012: EU: Turning Europe into an economic wasteland
Paul Murphy, MEP, Socialist Party (CWI Ireland) - 06/04/2012: The capitalist “vampire squid” and the class struggle in Europe
CWI - 14/03/2012: Europe: Fiscal treaty and blackmail clause
Video: Paul Murphy, MEP, Socialist Party (CWI Ireland) - 08/03/2012: Europe: A Treaty to institutionalise austerity
Paul Murphy, MEP, Socialist
Party (CWI Ireland) - 09/02/2012: Europe: No to the debt! No to the austerity! No to the blackmail!
Joint declaration by CWI sections in Greece,
Portugal, Ireland,
Italy and Spain - 03/02/2012: EU summit: No capitalist solutions to the spiralling eurozone crisis
Editorial of the Socialist, paper of the Socialist
Party (CWI England & Wales) - 26/01/2012: CWI International Meeting: Upturn in class struggles across Europe
Finghín Kelly, Socialist Party (CWI in Ireland)
2011: - 13/12/2011: Video: Paul Murphy MEP grills Barroso
Video of Paul Murphy MEP, Socialist
Party (CWI Ireland) - 07/12/2011: Eurozone crisis: Another "solution"
Robert Bechert, first published in the Socialist, paper of the Socialist
Party (CWI England & Wales) - 05/12/2011: N30 Strike: Paul Murphy MEP supports public sector workers’ strike
Video of Paul Murphy MEP, Socialist
Party (CWI Ireland) - 04/12/2011: Eurozone: ECB holds countries to ransom
Video of Paul Murphy MEP, Socialist Party (CWI Ireland) - 25/11/2011: Europe: The Markets rule
Joe Higgins, TD (member of the
Irish Parliament), Socialist Party (CWI Ireland) - 25/11/2011: Eurozone: Into the abyss?
Lynn Walsh, Editor, Socialism
Today, monthly magazine of the Socialist
Party (CWI England & Wales) - 19/11/2011: Europe: Pro-big business governments imposed on Greece and Italy
Paul Murphy, MEP, Socialist Party (CWI Ireland) - 12/11/2011: Eurozone Crisis: Un-elected banker set to be new Greek Prime Minister
Al Jazeera English, 10 November 2011 - 11/11/2011: Eurozone Crisis: Failed G20 summit takes eurozone nearer to the abyss
Lynn Walsh, from The Socialist, weekly newspaper of the Socialist Party
(CWI England & Wales) - 26/10/2011: Europe: EU Austerity laws passed
Paul Murphy MEP, Socialist Party (CWI Ireland) - 22/10/2011: Eurozone: Lost in Euroland
Robert Bechert, CWI - 05/10/2011: Europe: Austerity locked-in with EU economic governance package
Paul Murphy, MEP, Socialist
Party (CWI Ireland), first published in the "Irish
Left Review" - 05/08/2011: World economy: Stock market collapse - global economy shaking
Per Olsson (RS) - 02/08/2011: CWI Summer School: Economic, social and political crisis maturing
together in Europe
Kevin Parslow, Socialist
Party (CWI England & Wales) - 15/06/2011: Europe: Left MEPs’ Open letter of solidarity and support for resistance
to austerity
By Paul Murphy, Socialist Party MEP, and 11 other members of the
European United Left / Nordic Green Left (GUE/NGL) in the European
Parliament - 09/06/2011: Europe: Protests grow as young people say: ’We want a future!’
International Socialist Resistance (ISR) - 09/06/2011: Europe: "One day general strike across Europe would send powerful
message"
Paul Murphy, MEP, Socialist
Party (CWI Ireland) - 04/06/2011: Europe: Militarisation
Paul Murphy, MEP, Socialist Party (CWI Ireland) - 26/05/2011: Europe: Struggling to save the eurozone
Lynn Walsh, editor of Socialism
Today, magazine of the Socialist
Party (CWI England & Wales) - 19/05/2011: Eurozone: Crisis deepens
Editorial of the Socialist, paper of the Socialist
Party (CWI England & Wales) - 07/05/2011: EU commission: Less democracy to facilitate economic shock doctrine
Paul Murphy, MEP, Socialist Party (CWI Ireland) - 14/04/2011: World & Europe: New period of instability and revolutions
International Secretariat of the CWI - 20/01/2011: Ireland: EU/IMF intervention enslaves working people
Joe Higgins, MEP, Socialist Party (CWI Ireland)
2010: - 31/12/2010: CWI 10th World Congress: Eastern Europe and the CIS (former Soviet
States)
Document No. 6, CWI World Congress - 23/12/2010: CWI 10th World Congress: Europe
Document No. 5, CWI World Congress - 19/12/2010: Ireland / EU: Opposition to eurozone crisis mechanism!
Joe Higgins, MEP, Socialist Party (CWI Ireland) - 19/12/2010: OSCE Summit: Hypocrisy of world “leaders”
Joe Higgins, MEP, Socialist Party (CWI Ireland) - 03/12/2010: Europe: Joe Higgins challenges ECB President
Joe Higgins, MEP, Socialist
Party (CWI Ireland) speaking in the European Parliament - 13/11/2010: EU / India: Exploitation through free trade
Joe Higgins, MEP, Socialist Party (CWI Ireland) - 11/11/2010: Ireland and the EU: Fear and loathing in Brussels and Dublin…
Joe Higgins, MEP, Socialist Party (CWI Ireland) - 24/10/2010: Human rights: Hypocrisy of EU Commission
Joe Higgins, MEP Socialist
Party (CWI Ireland) - 27/09/2010: Europe / Ireland: 29/9 - Unions call European day of protest
Michael O’Brien, Socialist
Party (CWI Ireland) - 27/09/2010: Europe / Pakistan: Joe Higgins condemns agreement to facilitate
deportation of immigrants
Joe Higgins, MEP, Socialist
Party (CWI Ireland) - 26/09/2010: Financial system: New arrangements in Europe without real changes
Joe Higgins, MEP, Socialist Party (CWI Ireland) - 25/09/2010: EU-China summit: Bigger profits on the backs of Chinese workers
Joe Higgins, MEP, Socialist Party (CWI Ireland) - 10/09/2010: European Day of action: Statement of Left MEPs from GUE/NGL on 29/9
Statement of Left MEPs - 24/08/2010: 29 September: Europe braced for working class action across borders
CWI statement - 27/07/2010: Northern Ireland: Riots expose reality of sectarianism
Ciaran Mulholland, Socialist Party (CWI Ireland) - 15/07/2010: The EU Project: Is it doomed?
Paul Murphy, Socialist Party
(CWI Ireland) - 14/07/2010: Ireland & the EU: Austerity programmes provoke general strikes and
struggles
Kevin McLoughlin, Socialist Party (CWI Ireland) - 11/07/2010: EU: Joe Higgins MEP questions Spanish Trade Secretary on human rights
and trade agreements
Joe Higgins, Member of European Parliament, Socialist
Party (CWI Ireland) - 30/06/2010: Europe: Week of ‘Protest and Solidarity’ held across Europe
Paul Murphy, Brussels - 15/06/2010: Age of retirement: Joe Higgins MEP challenges the global attack on
pension rights
Joe Higgins, MEP Socialist Party (CWI Ireland), 2 June - 12/06/2010: Netherlands: Elections see gains for cuts-making Liberals and far-right
Geert Wilders
Pieter Brans, Offensief (CWI supporters in Netherlands), Amsterdam - 09/06/2010: Crisis: Joe Higgins MEP interviewed on the socialist solution to the
crisis
Video with Joe Higgins - 07/06/2010: Ireland: Will Ireland follow Greece?
Kevin McLoughlin, from June 2010 issue of The Socialist (paper of the
Socialist Party, CWI Ireland) - 01/06/2010: Israel/Palestine:“An act of piracy in international waters"
CWI Reporters, Brussels - 26/05/2010: Europe: The European Union’s spiral of crisis
Robert Bechert, CWI, from June 2010 issue of Socialism
Today, the monthly journal of the Socialist Party (CWI England and
Wales) - 21/05/2010: Slovenia: Students smash parliament buildings in anger at government’s
attacks
CWI - 13/05/2010: Europe: Initiative for a "Week of Protest & Solidarity"
Left MEPs from GUE/NGL - 13/05/2010: Europe: Proposal for European-wide protest 21 - 26 June
CWI - 09/05/2010: Europe: Workers’ unity needed to fight attacks on workers
Joe Higgins, Member of the European Parliament, Socialist Party (CWI
Ireland) - 09/05/2010: "Europe 2020": Fight back against neo-liberal strategy
Joe Higgins, MEP Socialist Party (CWI Ireland) - 06/05/2010: Eurozone hit by debt crises: Turmoil reveals limits of European
integration
The Socialist, paper of the Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales) - 30/04/2010: Europe: Workers’ unity across Europe to resist the attacks! "We will not
pay for the bosses’ crisis"!
Statement of GUE/NGL (United Left) MEPs in solidarity with Greek and all
European workers - 29/04/2010: Europe: Capitalist austerity must be met with workers’ action!
CWI joint declaration - 26/04/2010: Europe: A continent of capitalist crisis
Danny Byrne, CWI - 24/04/2010: Europe: Icelandic volcanic eruption causes huge travel chaos
Rob Jones, CWI - 19/04/2010: Europe: Eurozone crisis, capitalist conflicts and class struggles
International Secretariat of the CWI - 19/04/2010: Volcanoes, Chaos and the Case for Socialism
Sonja Grusch, Austria - 29/03/2010: Capitalist crisis: Neo-colonial world hit hardest
Joe Higgins, MEP - 12/03/2010: World Trade: Higgins condemns use of trade agreements to dominate poor
countries
Joe Higgins speaking in the European Parliament - 11/03/2010: Education in Europe: 10 years of the ‘Bologna Process’
Tilman Ruster, SLP (CWI Austria) - 09/03/2010: Europe: Building action across the continent
Editorial of "The
Socialist" - 19/02/2010: Europe: Euro tremors
Lynn Walsh, from March 2010 edition of Socialism Today, magazine of the
Socialism Today - 11/02/2010: Europe: Joe Higgins (CWI) opposes new neo-liberal European commission
Socialistworld.net - 19/01/2010: Video: Joe Higgins MEP questions Karel de Gucht on EU trade policies
Video with Joe Higgins, MEP
2009: 2008: 2007: 2005: 2004: - 10/12/2004: European Union: "Speed up the Lisbon Agenda"
Per-Åke Westerlund, Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (cwi Sweden) - 28/10/2004: European Union: No light at the end of the tunnel
Per-Åke Westerlund, Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (cwi Sweden) - 20/10/2004: european social forum: Capitalism condemned - but where’s the
alternative?
Jim Horton, Socialist Party, England and Wales (cwi) - 20/10/2004: european social forum: cwi pictures
- 15/10/2004: european social forum: ’Social Europe’ - just another form of capitalism
Karl Debbaut, cwi - 14/10/2004: european social forum: A socialist guide to the ESF
Judy Beishon, Socialist Party, England and Wales - 18/06/2004: Europe: Euro elections - ’Kicked in the ballot box’
Karl Debbaut, CWI. - 28/04/2004: EU enlargement in Central Europe: No mood to party
Karl Debbaut, cwi - 07/04/2004: European Union: "Counter-terrorism" will not stop terrorism, but
threatens democratic rights
Per-Åke Westerlund, Sweden - 24/03/2004: Europe: European Union’s neo-liberal ’Lisbon agenda’
Per-Ake Westerlund, cwi, Sweden - 08/03/2004: Europe: European Greens unite - but are they a radical alternative?
Tim Lessells, Socialist Party, England and Wales
2003: 2002: - 20/12/2002: Europe: Protests agains EU and rasism
Per Olsson, Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna, Sweden. 18 December 18, 2002 - 14/12/2002: Europe: Copenhagen summit
Per Olsson, Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna, Sweden
This article
was printed in Offensiv, socialist weekly of Rättvisepartiet
Socialisterna in Sweden, on 12th December 2002 - 13/11/2002: Europe: European Social Forum
Christine Thomas, from The Socialist, paper of the Socialist Party,
England and Wales section of the CWI. - 18/09/2002: Europe: European social forum - A socialist world is possible
Judy Beishon, from The Socialist, weekly paper of the Socialist Party,
England and Wales section of the CWI - 03/06/2002: Europe: Character of the far right threat
- 27/04/2002: Europe: Is Europe moving to the right?
By Robert Bechert, 27 April 2002
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