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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
Tories in turmoil over Europe

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

Kazakhstan
Campaign leader sentenced to ten days in prison

23/05/2013: MEP demands immediate release of Housing Campaigners - solidarity still needed

Britain
No to terrorism! No to racism! No to war!

23/05/2013: Statement on Woolwich killing

Tunisia
the Ministry of Women excuses violations against women rights

23/05/2013: In the «most developped country for women in the Arab world», the struggle for women rights remains more relevant than ever

Germany
DIE LINKE and the Euro

23/05/2013: After Lafontaine’s proposal to get rid of the Euro – what should the left say?

Kazakhstan - solidarity needed
Housing justice activists arrested in Astana

22/05/2013: Protests needed via embassies

Ireland
Tax haven for multinational corporations

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

Germany
Strike at Amazon

22/05/2013: Union-agreed rates could bring Amazon workers 9000 euros more a year

Taiwan
Sea shooting sees Filipino migrants become target of racist backlash

21/05/2013: Anti-racist campaign needed against corrupt ruling elites and capitalism

Nigeria
President Jonathan declares state of emergency

21/05/2013: An expressway to attacks on democratic rights! For democratic mass working peoples’ defence committees!

G8 Summit, Northern Ireland
’Why YOU should oppose the G8’

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.

Anti-globalisation, Ireland North

World economy
"Central banks are flying blind"

19/05/2013: Increasing concerns and contradictions

World Economy

South Africa
Mass retrenchment threat in mining industry demands mass action

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

South Africa

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.

Iran

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.

Australia, Environment

New Zealand
Racism and recession in New Zealand

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

New Zealand

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.

Australia

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

Ireland Republic

May Day in Nigeria
Jonathan government intensifies attacks on democratic rights

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

May Day, Nigeria

Israel/Palestine
The Palestinians’ struggle

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

Israel / Palestine

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.

Italy

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.

Kurdistan, Turkey

Malaysia
Election ’victory’ based on fraud

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

Malaysia

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.

Greece

British county elections
Capitalist parties rejected

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

Britain

Tunisia
The calm before the storm

09/05/2013: New clashes on the horizon

Tunisia

Pakistan
General elections held amid political turmoil

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

Pakistan

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.

May Day, Sri Lanka

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

Hong Kong

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

Israel / Palestine

CWI in Israel/Palestine: Socialist Struggle Movement
Socialist Struggle Movement, P.O.B 35277, Tel-Aviv-Jaffa, ZIP 61351, Israel, ++972 54 818 44 61, email
http://www.maavak.org.il

Israel/Palestine: The Palestinians’ struggle

12/05/2013, How can a state be realised?
Judy Beishon, Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)

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
Doron Ginosar and Efrat Levin, Socialist Struggle Movement (CWI in Israel/Palestine)

Israel: “There is a future” – of cuts, racism and resistance

05/04/2013, Weak Israeli government will try to implement austerity budget, and would try to maintain the occupation, possibly under a new cover of "negotiations" with Palestinians. Resistance likely on all fronts.
Socialist Struggle Movement (CWI Israel/Palestine)

Israel/Palestine: Protests Against Shimon Peres at European Parliament

13/03/2013, Yesterday, Shimon Peres, the Israeli President, was met by protests as he visited Strasbourg to address the European Parliament
Paul Murphy, Socialist Party MEP

Israel/Palestine: Video

22/12/2012, Interview with Yasha Marmer, a leading member of the Socialist Struggle Movement (CWI in Israel-Palestine)
Socialistworld.net

Palestine: No more Israeli state terror!

28/11/2012, During the Israeli government’s eight days of brutal assault on the Gaza strip, over 163 Palestinians were killed, 1,235 wounded and the entire 1.7 million population of the strip traumatised.
Leaflet of the Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)