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World economy
"Central banks are flying blind"

19/05/2013: Increasing concerns and contradictions

South Africa
Mass retrenchment threat in mining industry demands mass action

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

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.

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.

New Zealand
Racism and recession in New Zealand

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

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.

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

May Day in Nigeria
Jonathan government intensifies attacks on democratic rights

12/05/2013: 15 DSM members arrested at May Day rallies

Israel/Palestine
The Palestinians’ struggle

12/05/2013: How can a state be realised?

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.

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.

Malaysia
Election ’victory’ based on fraud

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

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.

British county elections
Capitalist parties rejected

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

Tunisia
The calm before the storm

09/05/2013: New clashes on the horizon

Pakistan
General elections held amid political turmoil

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

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.

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

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

Liverpool
Rally marks 30 year anniversary of election of socialist council

05/05/2013: Great event remembers the ’47’ struggle

Britain, History

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.

Women

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

04/05/2013: Those who created the crisis should be forced to pay.

Australia

Nigerian May Day arrests
All DSM members released [updated]

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.

May Day, Nigeria, Solidarity

Pakistan
May Day 2013

03/05/2013: Progressive Workers Federation (PWF), TURCP and SMP organised and intervened in the May Day activities across the country

May Day, Video

Bangladesh building collapse
Casualties of a rotten profit system

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.

Bangladesh

Hong Kong
Dockers’ strike shines a spotlight on Li Ka-shing’s business empire

03/05/2013: Li Ka-shing owns 13 percent of the world’s port capacity and much more besides…

Hong Kong

Taiwan
Over 20,000 march on May Day

02/05/2013: ‘Defend pensions! Stop corruption!’

May Day, Taiwan

Pakistan
May Day demonstration in Sindh

02/05/2013: Photos of May Day demonstration in Sindh

May Day, Pakistan

Nigeria
Militarisation of May Day rallies

02/05/2013: DSM comrades arrested and detained

May Day, Nigeria, Solidarity

Portugal
Constitutional court ruling sends government into disarray

01/05/2013: CC rules budget illegal for second time, government declares war against it

Portugal

May Day Greetings

01/05/2013: The CWI sends revolutionary greetings and solidarity to workers, young people and all those exploited by capitalism.

May Day

Europe
EU austerity budget – cuts, cuts, cuts

30/04/2013: Irish Presidency brought unprecedented levels of cuts to the EU budget.

Europe

Scotland
Anti-Bedroom Tax Federation launched

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

Scotland

Britain
Break with Thatcher’s legacy!

28/04/2013: Socialist policies needed

Britain

Israel
Social worker union prepares for the coming battle

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

Israel / Palestine

Video

Pakistan: May Day 2013

03/05/2013, Progressive Workers Federation (PWF), TURCP and SMP organised and intervened in the May Day activities across the country
Syed Fazal Abass Shah, secretary general PWF, Pakistan

Ireland: March against austerity and the Property Tax

16/04/2013, Nearly 10,000 show determined, angry and positive mood
Matt Waine, Socialist Party (CWI Ireland)

EU/Cyprus: "Cypriot peope left to mercy of Robber Barons, aka the Troika"

28/03/2013, "Time for workers to unite - from Greece to Ireland"
Speach of Joe Higgins TD, Socialist Party (CWI Ireland) in Irish Parliament

US: Sawant to run for Seattle City Council

17/03/2013, Socialist Challenges Democratic Party Establishment
Philip Locker, Socialist Alternative (CWI supporters in the US)

Video: Greece, the fightback against austerity nightmare

29/02/2013, Andros Payiatsos speaks at European counter-summit in Dublin
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Video: Portuguese government leaders humiliated

22/02/2013, Signs of growing radicalisation and struggle
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Ireland: Joe Higgins condemns new Irish bank bill

08/02/2013, Socialist Party (CWI) MP argues for democratic socialist alternative to capitalist market chaos
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Video: MEP Paul Murphy supports Belgian and French workers of ArcelorMittal

06/02/2013, "Transforming the factories into headquarters for all of those who are resisting the cuts and the attacks on working conditions"
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Video: Paul Murphy challenges Irish Prime Minister and government MEP

19/01/2013, And provokes the wrath of both…
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Video: Solidarity with Irish HMV workers’ occupation

18/01/2013, Joe Higgins TD (MP) calls for solidarity and demands nationalisation and workers’ control and management
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Video: EU’s empty promises on youth unemployment

15/01/2013, Paul Murphy, Socialist Party (CWI in Ireland) MEP speaks in European parliament on EU’s ’Youth Guarantee’ scheme
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Britain - debate: The way towards working class representation

05/01/2013, Should socialists aim to convert the Labour Party to a socialist viewpoint, or call on unions to support the struggle to build a new mass workers’ party, like the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC)?
Debate at "Socialism 2012" with Clive Heemskerk, Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales) and Owen Jones, author of Chavs