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25/05/2013: The one day protest general strike held on 21 May was a significant step
forward for the working class in Sri Lanka.
24/05/2013: Neo-liberalism and police violence have created social time-bomb
24/05/2013: Interview on Militant, the Labour Party and the struggle of the
socialist led council 1983-87 in Liverpool
24/05/2013: The Tories are thrashing around in ever-deeper water on the issue of
Europe.
23/05/2013: MEP demands immediate release of Housing Campaigners - solidarity still
needed
23/05/2013: Statement on Woolwich killing
23/05/2013: In the «most developped country for women in the Arab world», the
struggle for women rights remains more relevant than ever
23/05/2013: After Lafontaine’s proposal to get rid of the Euro – what should the
left say?
22/05/2013: Protests needed via embassies
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.
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Russian Revolution 1917
The 1917 Russian revolution, when the working class and peasant majority
succeeded, for the first time in history, in transforming society,
abolishing capitalism and landlordism, still stands as the greatest even
in human history for socialists and Marxists. The event led to a wave of
struggle and revolution, throughout Europe and beyond, putting the idea
of a socialist world firmly onto the agenda. The CWI stands firmly in
the tradition of the Bolshevik Party of Lenin and Trotsky, in fighting
to build a revolutionary socialist international in the 21st century.
For those fighting to change society today, the experience of the
Russian revolution, and its subsequent tragic Stalinist degeneration, is
rich in lessons.
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| 11/10/2007, The October Revolution – when the working class took power
Peter Taaffe, General Secretary, Socialist Party |
| 12/07/2007, Revolution never develops in a straight line.
Peter Taaffe, Socialist Party general secretary, London |
| 16/03/2007, Ninety years ago, the working class of Russia, led by the immortal
workers of what is now St Petersburg, rose in a revolution that
overthrew the 1,000-year dictatorial rule of the Tsar.
Peter Taaffe, general secretary of the Socialist Party |
| 22/03/2005, Restored version of ‘Battleship Potemkin’ at 55th Berlin Film Festival
Aron Amm, Berlin |
| 13/01/2005, The Russian Revolution of 1905 began on Sunday 9 January, after more
than one thousand people - men, women and children - were massacred by
military guards outside the Winter Palace of the tsar.
PerAke Westerlund, Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna, cwi Sweden |
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