  latest news
24/05/2012: For nation-wide union-led mass actions and a 48-hr general strike
24/05/2012: "Growth will not be achieved simply by stamping the word onto an
austerity treaty, because austerity kills growth"
23/05/2012: When authoritarianism faces resistance
23/05/2012: Mass demonstration against EU’s austerity policies
23/05/2012: Third anniversary of slaughter of Tamil people by Sri Lankan army marked
by protests all around the world
21/05/2012: Revolution and counter-revolution
20/05/2012: Anger from below, manoeuvres from the top
19/05/2012: Workers’ organisations must ensure real change
18/05/2012: Police target socialists at protest camp – urgent protests needed!
18/05/2012: Build fighting, democratic trade unions!
18/05/2012: Thousands attempt to occupy squares and blockade the ECB in Frankfurt,
Germany. Protests are banned.
18/05/2012: Leader of the “Leave Peoples’ Homes Alone” campaign and member of the
SMK, Larissa Boyar, and others have been released from prison
15/05/2012: For a Left government! For anti-austerity, pro-worker, socialist
policies!
15/05/2012: Republic’s president, Marzouki, afraid of ‘new revolution’
15/05/2012: "Despite this ferocious oppression, the opposition and discontent of the
working class cannot be silenced"
15/05/2012: Protesters respond by setting up ‘Occupy-Abai’
13/05/2012: "During an election dominated by career politicians who are loyal to big
business, I am running as a Socialist Alternative candidate to make sure
there is at least one independent left-wing, pro-worker candidate in
Washington State worth voting for."
12/05/2012: Step up the Struggle for Equality
12/05/2012: Urgency of a working class alternative proven again
12/05/2012: Lively and political CWI contingent attracts variety of activists
12/05/2012: Meeting discusses involvement in Afghanistan
11/05/2012: Campaign Kazakhstan reports
that newspapers in Kazakhstan said a strike by miners at KazakhMys ended
on 7 May with a complete victory for the workers.
10/05/2012: On 31 May Irish voters are asked to vote on the European fiscal treaty.
This video explains what the treaty is about.
10/05/2012: May Day should have offered opportunity for workers to pose their
demands and agitation before the government
09/05/2012: Austerity rejected in Eurozone’s second biggest economy
09/05/2012: Left presented with big opportunities
09/05/2012: Socialist organisations march to joint rally
07/05/2012: The Con-Dem government suffered a crushing defeat in last Thursday’s
elections for local authorities and in the mayoral contests apart from
London.
06/05/2012: As economic crisis worsens and class struggles continue in Spain,
Greece, Portugal and elsewhere in Europe, the need for working class
fight-back and to build the influence of Marxism grows.
05/05/2012: Socialist Action (CWI) campaigning against the capitalist 1% and against
racism
05/05/2012: Bobby Seale as guest speaker
04/05/2012: Solidarity needed to free Vadim!
04/05/2012: Fotos of impressive march
03/05/2012: For a workers’ programme that puts forward the socialist alternative
03/05/2012: Days of action planned in Frankfurt/Main against European Central Bank
and big finance
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 Women |
|  16/04/2012, First time to initiate proposal to legalise abortion in Ireland
Clare Daly, TD (member of the Irish parliament), Socialist
Party (CWI Ireland)
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|  14/04/2012, More ‘healthy’, ‘positive’ and ‘real’ representations of women in the
fashion world and beauty advertising?
Comment by the Socialist Party (CWI Australia) reporters
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|  10/03/2012, On International Women’s Day, CWI activists protest against austerity
package hitting women
Laura Rafetseder, Socialist Left Party
(CWI in Austria)
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|  08/03/2012, International women’s day, 8 March, has been marked this year with an
upturn in struggle, much of it to keep hold of many gains won in the
past. Con-Dem austerity is hitting women hardest.
Jane James, Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)
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|  08/03/2012, "The Life and Times of Stella Browne: feminist and free spirit" by
Lesley A Hall
Reviewed by Eleanor Donne, Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)
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|  06/03/2012, For more than a century, 8 March has been the day to commemorate and
celebrate the fight of working class and revolutionary women for a
better deal and a socialist society.
Clare Doyle, CWI
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|  02/12/2011, Video footage of demonstration organised by Socialist Movement Pakistan
(CWI Pakistan)
Socialistworld.net
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|  10/03/2011, Women will be propelled to the forefront of struggles
Marty Harrison, Member, Pennsylvania Association of Staff Nurses and
Allied Professionals, from socialistalternative.org
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|  09/03/2011, On 13 February, one million women (and men) marched in 230 towns and
cities across Italy.
Christine Thomas, Controcorrente (CWI Italy)
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|  09/03/2011, The genocidal war in the north and east of Sri Lanka, which ended in May
2009, has created more than 68,000 widows. On the other hand, there are
another 30,000 widows in the southern part of the country due to the
demise of soldiers of the government forces.
Dhammika de Silva (USP Central Committee Member)
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|  09/03/2011, Protests focus on migrants’ rights – abuse and torture of Indonesian
migrants abroad
Siu Fei and Vincent Kolo, chinaworker.info
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|  08/03/2011, Unprecedented cuts, North and South, hit women
Laura Ashley shop steward and striker, Laura Waters, writes about her
experiences
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|  08/03/2011, ‘Women’s Struggle against the Right’ organises demonstration on
International Women’s Day
Elin Gauffin, Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (CWI in Sweden)
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Further articles on 'Women':2010: - 30/09/2010: The beauty industry: Out of control?
Becci Heagney, first published in the Socialist, paper of the Socialist
Party (CWI England & Wales) - 24/09/2010: Pakistan: Protesting nurses hold all-night vigil in Layyah
Rukhsana Manzoor, Finance Organiser TURCP - 24/09/2010: Women and the struggle against oppression
Interview - 18/09/2010: Women and Advertizing: Low Self-Esteem is Good for Profits
Genevieve Morse, USA, Shop Steward, Classified Staff Union / MTA
(personal capacity) - 01/09/2010: Reviews: Living Dolls - The Return of Sexism By Natasha Walter
CWI - 08/05/2010: Belgium: Government plans to ban the burqa
Anja Deschoemacker, LSP/PSL (CWI in Belgium) - 10/03/2010: Belgium: Attacks on jobs and wages threaten women’s gains
Anja Deschoemacker, national women’s organiser of PSL/LSP (CWI Belgium) - 09/03/2010: Women’s day 2010: The situation facing women in Britain
From "The Socialist", paper of the Socialist Party, CWI in England and
Wales - 08/03/2010: Asia: Women migrants face the brunt of capitalism’s crisis
- 08/03/2010: Women’s day 2010: Still fighting for equality
Eleanor Donne, Socialist Party England and Wales from March issue of
Socialism Today - 07/03/2010: Women’s day 2010: The history of International Women’s Day
Socialism Today - 03/03/2010: Women and socialism: China - Women’s struggle then and now
Elin Gauffin, CWI Sweden - 03/03/2010: Women and socialism: A century of struggle
Elin Gauffin, CWI Sweden
2009: 2008: 2007: - 10/03/2007: women: Marking International Women’s Day
The Socialist - 09/03/2007: women: Kurdish women in Syria have a hard fight
Guleperi Biro, Kurdish asylum-seeker in Cyprus - 08/03/2007: women: Nigeria - Women’s burdens demand socialist action
Titi Salaam-Ogunniran, Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI, Nigeria) - 07/03/2007: International Women’s Day: Australia - The fight for equal pay continues!
Kylie McGregor, UNITE President and Socialist Party (CWI, Australia) - 06/03/2007: women: International Women’s Day 2007 - Pakistani women suffer untold
misery and new law gives no protection
Rukhsana Manzoor, Socialist Movement Pakistan, Lahore - 05/03/2007: Women: Women in India bear brunt of widening wealth gap
Nirmala Shetty, New Socialist Alternative (CWI, India) - 02/03/2007: Women: Brazil - Violence towards women - a public issue at last!
Jane Barros, Socialismo Revolucionario (CWI) - 01/03/2007: women: International Women’s day - Sweden. No to the right wing
government’s maid system
Karin Wallmark, Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (CWI Sweden) - 01/03/2007: women: Europe - Men’s violence against women
Katja Raetz, Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (CWI, Sweden)
2006: - 08/03/2006: international women’s day 2006: Chinese women workers in revolt
Huang Xin - 05/03/2006: international women’s day: Women in India bear brunt of widening wealth
gap
Nirmala Shetty, New Socialist Alternative (CWI, India) - 01/03/2006: women: international womens’ day 2006
Clare Doyle, CWI - 01/03/2006: women: international womens’ day 2006 - Pakistan
Rukhsana Manzoor, Socialist Movement Pakistan - 01/03/2006: women: international womens’ day 2006 - South Africa
Sheri Hamilton, Democratic Socialist Movement - 01/03/2006: women: international womens’ day 2006 - Venezuala
Elisabeth O’Hara, Socialist Party (England and Wales) - 01/03/2006: women: international womens’ day 2006 - Germany
David Matrai, Berlin - 01/03/2006: women: international womens’ day 2006 - Sweden
Elin Gauffin, Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna - 01/03/2006: women: international womens’ day 2006 - Britain
Zena Awad, Socialist Party, England and Wales - 01/03/2006: women: international womens’ day 2006 - Belgium
Marijke Descamps, LSP/MAS (CWI) Belgium - 01/03/2006: women: international womens’ day 2006 - Australia
Anthony Maine, Socialist Party - 01/03/2006: women: international womens’ day 2006 - USA
Margaret Collins, Socialist Alternative - 01/03/2006: women: international womens’ day 2006 - Hard facts
2005: 2004: 2003: 2002: 2001: 2000: 1999: - 11/05/1999: Nigeria: CWI section under serious attack
Clare Doyle, CWI Campaigns - 03/05/1999: Women: International Women’s day - Index
- 03/03/1999: Women: International Women’s day - Britain
Chris Thomas, Socialist Party - 03/03/1999: Women: International Women’s day - US
Martha Root, (Service Employees International Union Local 285), Labor
Militant - 03/03/1999: Women: International Women’s day - Sri Lanka
Dhamika de Silva and Srinath Perera, United Socialist Party - 03/03/1999: Women: International Women’s day - Sweden
Carolin Evander, Rattvisepartiet Socialisterna, CWI Sweden - 03/03/1999: Women: International Women’s day - Portugal
Torge, Colectivo "Luta Socialista", CWI Portugal - 03/03/1999: Women: International Women’s day - Japan
Nahoko Isu, CWI Japan - 03/03/1999: Women: International Women’s day - India
With Red Salute, Nirmala Shetti, (Dudiyora Hora’ta) - 03/03/1999: Women: International Women’s day - Germany
Antje Zander, Socialistiche Alternative - 03/03/1999: Women: International Women’s day - CIS
Anna Shvedova, CWI-CIS - 03/03/1999: Women: International Women’s day - Brazil
Eliana Maciel, Socialismo Revolucionario, CWI Brazil - 03/03/1999: Women: International Women’s Day - Women fight the system
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