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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.
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
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|  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)
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|  26/08/2011, Attempts to form a new left umbrella party
Nihat Boyraz, SAV (CWI Germany),
and Jan Kowalski, CWI
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|  01/03/2010, It Is nearly seven years after the US-led invasion of Iraq. US
imperialism had hoped for a quick war, the Iraqi oil industry under the
control of US companies and a compliant, stable regime. However, the
situation today is very different to what George Bush and Tony Blair
envisaged.
Chris Newby
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| 21/08/2006, August 6 saw 4,000 people take to the streets of Chamchamal, a Kurdish
city in northern Iraq, in protest against the huge increase in fuel
prices and the lack of water and electric.
Rozh Pavilov, cwi |
| 10/09/2005, Oppressed workers and poor resist regime
Tim Lessells, Socialist Party, England and Wales |
| 25/06/2004, Since the war on Iraq, the Kurds have stood out in stark contrast to the
rest of the Middle East.
Paula Mitchell, Socialist Party |
| 17/11/2002, Kurdish people, known as the Kurds, live in an area that consists of
south-eastern Turkey, northern Iraq, north-western Iran and a part of
Syria.
Stephen Smellie |
| 03/03/1999, International Women’s Day. cwi Kurdistan campaign.
Reports compiled by CWI online |
| 01/03/1999, The abduction of the Kurdish Workers’ Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Ocalan
by Turkish secret services has sparked furious mass protests by Kurds
and more than ever internationalised the Kurdish question. The CWI
stands with the oppressed Kurdish people and supports and campaigns for
their right to self-determination.
Issued by the Committee for a Workers’ International, 1 March 1999 |
| 01/03/1999, This statement of the Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI)
mainly deals with those parts of Kurdistan which are currently located
in Turkey. It does not go into the situation in Turkey or other parts of
Kurdistan in depth.
CWI statement |
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