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 Turkey
Stop the repression

19/06/2013: Socialist MEP condemns police violence during Turkey/ EU trade relations session

  Turkey, Video

Brazil
Protest spreading

18/06/2013: Well over 250,000 in approximately 20 cities took to the streets

  Brazil

Hong Kong
1,000 demonstrators defend whistleblower Snowden

18/06/2013: Revelations by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden have exposed US hypocrisy over cyber-spying

  Hong Kong

G8 summit
No to G8 austerity

17/06/2013: End the rule of big business, poverty and war

  Anti-globalisation

Brazil
Mass struggles resurface as weight of crisis is felt

16/06/2013: Mass demonstrations against the increase of bus fares in all major cities

  Brazil

Pakistan / Sindh province
Stop victimization and union busting of women health workers

15/06/2013: “We will defend our rights and continue fighting”.

  Pakistan

 India
Agitation of Workers at Pune

15/06/2013: Fed up with continued oppression, workers under the banner of ’Pradeep Laminators Workers’ Union’ have started a propaganda campaign against the bosses.

  India, Solidarity

 Turkey
End police brutality - defend anti-government protesters

13/06/2013: MEP Paul Murphy criticises EU foreign policy representative, Catherine Ashton, over calls for ’restraint on all sides’

  Turkey, Video

Greece
Government shuts down state broadcaster ERT

12/06/2013: Unions must organise general strike action now!

  Greece

 Video
Joe Higgins questions Irish Prime Minister about G8 summit

12/06/2013: Socialist MP slams huge security operation and anti-working class record of world leaders

  Video

Turkey
“Vandals” continue to fight back

11/06/2013: Erdogan seeks trial of strength with mass protests

  Turkey

 G8
Join the protest!

11/06/2013: Oppose the summit of capitalist leaders, argues Paul Murphy in the European Parliament

  Anti-globalisation, Video

 Turkey
International solidarity protests

11/06/2013: Report from London, with CWI comment on the developments in Turkey

  Turkey, Video

Obituary
Comrade Kemelo Ernest Mokgalagadi

11/06/2013: A genuine working class fighter and a revolutionary socialist

  Obituary, South Africa

Turkey
Solidarity is vital to show protesters the world is watching

10/06/2013: Socialist Party MEP Paul Murphy travelled to Istanbul to see the protests first-hand – and in his diary from the visit he tells us that the response from the country’s Prime Minister has been “brutal”.

  Turkey

Hong Kong
Tiananmen vigil sends a warning to China’s new leaders

08/06/2013: 24th anniversary of Beijing’s crackdown draws 150,000 protestors

  China, Hong Kong

Syria
Conflict threatens to spread across the Middle East

08/06/2013: Urgent need for independent working class socialist organisations

  Syria

Turkey
Solidarity with the mass protests

08/06/2013: Paul Murphy to visit heart of Turkish Protests

  Turkey

France
Fatal fascist violence in Paris

07/06/2013: An 18-year-old student activist Clement Meric was murdered in Paris in broad daylight, on 5 June, by neo-fascist skinheads. This must be answered by mass mobilisation to halt attempts by the far right to raise its head.

  France

Germany
Blockupy protests

07/06/2013: Police repression in the belly of the beast

  Germany

G8
MEPs send message of solidarity to anti-G8 protestors

06/06/2013: A group of 12 MEPs from the left wing group in the European Parliament, GUE-NGL, have signed a joint message of support to Anti-G8 protestors ahead of the summit in two weeks’ time.

  Anti-globalisation, Ireland North, Ireland Republic

Russia
CWI conference discusses perspectives for Putin’s regime

05/06/2013: Unrest grows over economic and social issues

  Russia

Turkey
Mass movement challenges Erdogan government

04/06/2013: Public sector workers take strike action against police violence – For a one day general strike as a next step to bring down the government!

  Turkey

Scotland
Thousands attend anti-bedroom tax protest in Glasgow

04/06/2013: Over 2,000 poeple attended the anti - bedroom tax rally in Glasgow’s George Square on June 1 called by the Scottish Anti Bedroom Tax Federation.

  Scotland

G8
Armed police and soldiers descend on County Fermanagh

02/06/2013: Secret Services bolster police ahead of G8 Summit in N Ireland

  Anti-globalisation, Ireland North

China / Hong Kong
Remembering 4 June 1989

01/06/2013: Vital lessons for today’s democracy struggle

  China, Hong Kong

Boycotting Israel
The socialist view

31/05/2013: ‘Boycott, divestment and sanctions’- questions and answers about the BDS campaign

  Israel / Palestine

Britain
TUSC and the road to a new workers’ party

30/05/2013: Rising support for UKIP shows both the erosion of established party loyalties and the existence of a profound vacuum of working-class political representation.

  Britain, New workers' parties

 Europe
Austerity and unemployment across the continent

29/05/2013: EU council meeting: Another attempt to put the burden of the capitalist crisis on the shoulders of youth and working people

  Europe, Video

Sweden
The reality of Swedish neo-liberalism

28/05/2013: Sweden once had a reputation as some kind of ‘social-democratic model’ with far-reaching public services and social support. But that has been dismantled by two decades of attacks – what the Economist magazine calls a ‘silent revolution’

  Sweden

Environment
Brazil’s forests

28/05/2013: Profits from destruction

  Brazil, Environment

Sri Lanka
Working class beginning to move forward

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.

  Sri Lanka

Sweden
Riots in Stockholm working-class suburbs

24/05/2013: Neo-liberalism and police violence have created social time-bomb

  Sweden

30 years ago
Liverpool - a city that dared to fight

24/05/2013: Interview on Militant, the Labour Party and the struggle of the socialist led council 1983-87 in Liverpool

  Britain, History

Britain
Tories in turmoil over Europe

24/05/2013: The Tories are thrashing around in ever-deeper water on the issue of Europe.

  Britain, Europe

Solidarity campaigns

India: Agitation of Workers at Pune

15/06/2013, Fed up with continued oppression, workers under the banner of ’Pradeep Laminators Workers’ Union’ have started a propaganda campaign against the bosses.
New Socialist Alternative (CWI India)

Kazakhstan: Campaign leader sentenced to ten days in prison

23/05/2013, MEP demands immediate release of Housing Campaigners - solidarity still needed
Campaign Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan - solidarity needed: Housing justice activists arrested in Astana

22/05/2013, Protests needed via embassies
Campaign Kazakhstan

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.
Press statement by Segun Sango, general secretary DSM (CWI Nigeria)

Nigeria: Militarisation of May Day rallies

02/05/2013, DSM comrades arrested and detained
Press statement by Segun Sango, general secretary DSM (CWI Nigeria)

Nigeria: Recall DSM member Michael Ogundele now!

18/04/2013, University of Ibadan (UI): End victimisation of student activists! - Call for protest letters and solidarity
Abbey Trotsky, Ibadan, DSM (CWI Nigeria)

Nigeria: End victimisation at Obafemi Awolowo University!

17/04/2013, Appeal for protest letters and solidarity
Kola Ibrahim, DSM (CWI Nigeria)

Hong Kong: Dockworkers strike lays bare class divisions

10/04/2013, Fifteen years without a pay rise – “We are like slaves of the company!”
Socialist Action (CWI) reporters in Hong Kong

Kazakhstan: Leader of workers’ demonstration in Zhezkazgan arrested

11/02/2013, Protest to embassies and KazakhMys bosses
Campaign Kazakhstan

Cyprus: Construction workers on indefinite strike

06/02/2013, Police attack strikers with teargas – International solidarity action needed!
Athina Kariati, New Internationalist Left (CWI in Cyprus), Nicosia

Hong Kong: Hunger strike for union rights

29/01/2013, HKSM driving instructors sacked for forming trade union – show your solidarity!
Jaco, Socialist Action (CWI) in Hong Kong

South Africa: Twenty arrested in Flagstaff protest for basic services

22/01/2013, Mass protest at court – urgent solidarity needed
Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI in South Africa) reporters

Vadim Kuramshin’s court appeal to start on 23 January

18/01/2013, Attacks continue against his legal team – Urgent protests needed!
socialistworld.net

South Africa – solidarity: Harmony Gold lock-out and mass eviction

10/01/2013, Workers lives are threatened after a week without food, access to medication
Liv Shange, DSM (CWI South Africa)

Kazakhstan: Socialist activists, Georgie Epshtien and Arman Ozhaubayev, arrested

14/12/2012, Protest against despotic regime’s crack-down!
Campaign Kazakhstan Reporters

Kazakhstan: Vadim Kuramshin, prisoners’ rights campaigner, jailed for 12 years

10/12/2012, All pretense of a fair trial dropped – Protest Now!
From Campaign Kazakhstan

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