  latest news
22/05/2013: How Ireland is used as a tax haven by multinational corporations while
the government is preparing to steal the property tax from people’s
wages, social welfare and pensions
22/05/2013: Union-agreed rates could bring Amazon workers 9000 euros more a year
21/05/2013: Anti-racist campaign needed against corrupt ruling elites and capitalism
21/05/2013: An expressway to attacks on democratic rights! For democratic mass
working peoples’ defence committees!
20/05/2013: This year’s G8 summit will be held in County Fermanagh, Northern
Ireland, on 17th – 18th June. This gathering brings together the heads
of government of eight of the world’s largest capitalist economies to
discuss how they can further the interests of those they represent – the
super-rich, big business and the bankers.
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
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Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender |
|  02/01/2013, Solidarity against homophobia - rights of LGBT community and rights of
working class under threat
Igor Yashin, CWI Moscow
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|  26/12/2012, Voters Affirm Marriage Equality in Four States
Kate Devlin, Socialist Alternative (CWI supporters in the US)
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|  20/12/2012, CWI member, Igor Yasin, and investigative journalist, Elena
Kostyuchenko, among ten arrested [Update (20/12/12): Igor, Elena
and 8 others released - full report to follow]
CWI Reporters, Moscow
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|  13/12/2012, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex (LGBTI) activists, together
with human rights campaigners, protested outside the Ugandan High
Commission in London on Monday 10 December against a repressive new bill
currently going through the Ugandan parliament.
Greg Randall, Socialist Party
(CWI England & Wales)
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|  12/05/2012, Step up the Struggle for Equality
Ramy Khalil, Socialist
Alternative (CWI supporters in the US)
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|  04/06/2011, Facing repression, gay rights activists in Russia have no time for
carnivals.
CWI reporters in Moscow
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|  28/01/2011, Joe Higgins MEP speaks in defence of the rights of the LGBT community in
Lithuania
Joe Higgins, MEP, Socialist Party (CWI Ireland)
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|  20/01/2011, The Struggle for LGBT Rights Continues
Nick Shillingford, Socialist Alternative (CWI USA)
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|  13/01/2011, At a Plenary Session of the European Parliament, Joe Higgins shows his
opposition to the vicious attempts to stoke up homophobia in Uganda
Joe Higgins, MEP, Socialist Party (CWI Ireland)
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|  07/08/2010, 20,000 people marched along the streets of Warsaw on 17 July on what was
Eastern Europe’s largest ever gay rights demonstration.
Paul Newberry, Warsaw
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| 11/08/2009, The struggle continues
Charlie James and Shahar Ben-Khorin, Socialist Struggle Movement (CWI in
Israel) |
| 02/06/2007, Once again the world’s media has been focused on the horrific breaking
up of an attempted protest in Moscow.
Igor, member of ’Sotsialisticheskoye Soprotivleniye’, CWI Russia. |
| 03/11/2006, Reactionary Jewish and Arab groups unite in homophobic campaign
Shahar Benhar, Maavak Sotzialisti, CWI Israel |
| 01/07/2006, The Moscow city authorities banned the Pride march planned for 27 May
and the courts upheld this ban.
Igor Yasin, Socialist Resistance, cwi, Russia |
| 01/07/2006, The shift towards the left in social attitudes over the last ten years
has meant that lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people have
won important rights in Britain.
Tom Penman, Socialist Party LGBT group |
| 29/07/2005, The newly elected president of Iran, the religious conservative and
former revolutionary guard Mahmoud Ahmadinejad who was elected on the 24
June tried to play down fears of Iranian workers during the election
campaign that he would reverse the “liberalization” of recent years.
Marc Vallée Socialist Party England and Wales. |
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