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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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|  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
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|  02/12/2012, We are living through one of the most dramatic periods in history.
Extracts from the draft document on world perspectives that will be
discussed at the December meeting of the International Executive
Committee (IEC) of the Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI)
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|  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
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|  20/09/2012, Reaping the grapes of wrath
Cedric Gerome, CWI
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|  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.
CWI
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|  30/04/2012, International Workers’ Day and the socialist alternative to austerity
and barbarism
CWI
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|  06/04/2012, 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.
CWI
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|  20/03/2012, How to end a nightmare?
Robert Bechert, CWI
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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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|  18/02/2012, Speach on the revolutionary developments in Egypt and the Middle east,
the struggles in Greece and the rest of Europe, developments in China
and elsewhere
Video of Peter Taaffe, Socialist
Party (CWI England & Wales) general secretary
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|  01/02/2012, CWI – a socialist analysis
Agreed by the CWI IEC 21 January 2012
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|  29/01/2012, Whole continent on the verge of major social convulsions and political
shocks
CWI
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|  28/01/2012, The illusory appearance of a peculiar isolation from the international
picture of stagnation, recession and economic crisis is fragile - a new
period of turbulent class conflict lays ahead
CWI
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Further articles on 'CWI Comment And Analysis':2011: 2010: - 31/12/2010: 2011: A year of sharpening struggle
Peter Taaffe, general secretary of the Socialist
Party (CWI England & Wales) - 31/12/2010: CWI 10th World Congress: Eastern Europe and the CIS (former Soviet
States)
Document No. 6, CWI World Congress - 29/12/2010: CWI 10th World Congress: Latin America
Document No. 4, CWI World Congress - 28/12/2010: CWI 10th World Congress: Middle East
Document No. 3, CWI World Congress - 27/12/2010: CWI 10th World Congress: Asia
Document No. 2, CWI World Congress - 26/12/2010: CWI 10th World Congress: World Relations
Document No. 1, CWI World Congress - 25/12/2010: CWI World Congress: Building the socialist movement around the world
Ty Moore, Socialist Alternative (CWI in USA) - 24/12/2010: CWI 10th World Congress: Precarious growth and crisis in Latin America
CWI reporters - 23/12/2010: CWI 10th World Congress: Europe
Document No. 5, CWI World Congress - 22/12/2010: 10th CWI World Congress: Rising contradictions in Asia
Sean Figg, Socialist Party
(CWI England and Wales) Congress delegation - 13/12/2010: 10th CWI World Congress: Europe - Starkly changed economic, social and
political landscape
Robin Clapp, Socialist Party (CWI England and Wales) Congress delegation - 09/12/2010: CWI 10th World Congress: World relations - ‘All is changed, changed
utterly’
Sarah Sachs-Eldridge, Socialist Party (CWI England and Wales) Congress
delegation - 12/10/2010: CWI 10th World Congress: World Relations
Socialistworld.net - 19/04/2010: Europe: Eurozone crisis, capitalist conflicts and class struggles
International Secretariat of the CWI - 01/02/2010: Perspectives for Malaysia: A Marxist approach
by Peter Taaffe - 19/01/2010: CWI comment and analysis: The tawdry morals of capitalism
Peter Taaffe, from forthcoming new issue of Socialism
Today, monthly journal of the Socialist Party (CWI England and Wales)
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