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Yemen
Gulf States/imperialism impose one-candidate Presidential ‘election’

22/02/2012: Months of grassroots revolt shows way forward for impoverished masses

  Yemen

France
Is the NPA still a step towards a new fighting party for workers and youth?

21/02/2012: Statement from Gauche Révolutionnaire (French section of the CWI) drawing a balance sheet of its experience in the NPA

  France, New workers' parties

Young people take to the streets against ‘ACTA’

20/02/2012: Mass protests in Germany, Austria and Europe

  Culture, Youth

 Video
"A Second Egyptian Revolution is needed"

19/02/2012: MEP Paul Murphy raises the need for the Egyptian masses to take political and economic power out of the hands of the ruling elite and military

  Egypt, Video

Syria
Protests brutally repressed, armed conflict spreading and threat of imperialist intervention

18/02/2012: For a mass movement of workers and the poor to defeat Assad’s regime and imperialism!

  Syria

 Perspectives
A World in Crisis

18/02/2012: Speach on the revolutionary developments in Egypt and the Middle east, the struggles in Greece and the rest of Europe, developments in China and elsewhere

  CWI Comment And Analysis, Video

Portugal
General strike announced after biggest workers’ march in 32 years

17/02/2012: Determination to break from current path towards ruin and bankruptcy

  Portugal

South Africa
Video of protest against unfair dismissal of mine workers

17/02/2012: Cosawu union won application to represent about 700 workers

  South Africa

Russia
Another 100,000 strong anti-Putin demo

16/02/2012: But many protesters ask: “We came – what next?”

  Russia

Romania
Protest movement topples government

16/02/2012: Socialist analysis of the winter protests

  Romania

Kazakhstan
Press conference in Moscow

15/02/2012: Kurmanov and Ukteshbayev speak out

  Kazakhstan

Brazil
Worker killed at AmBev brewery

15/02/2012: Beer with the taste of blood of workers don’t go down smoothly

  Brazil

Greece
Up to half a million people at Syntagma Square

14/02/2012: Massive response by the Greek workers to new cuts and austerity

  Greece

 Kazakhstan
Threat to Zhanartu leaders widely condemned

14/02/2012: Immediate support given by Bob Crow, rail-workers’ leader in Britain, Paul Murphy, MEP, from Ireland, Swedish trade union journalist and Australian Councillor, Steve Jolly

  Kazakhstan, Solidarity

 Video
Paul Murphy MEP denounces savagery imposed on Greek people

14/02/2012: Greek workers can defeat austerity, the troika and the vampire bondholders

  Video

 China
Socialist Zhang Shujie exposes state repression of left activists

14/02/2012: TV news report highlights the case of CWI supporter Zhang Shujie

  China, Video

 5th CWI Latin American School
A great success

13/02/2012: LA School 2012 takes place against the backgound of sharp changes on the continent

  CWI, Latin America, Video

Netherlands
Opposition Socialist Party surges to first place in polls

13/02/2012: Workers need a party with anti-cuts, socialist policies not coalitions with capitalist parties!

  Netherlands

Olympics 2012
London - a tale of two cities

12/02/2012: London is a city of enormous disparities between rich and poor, the most unequal city in the developed world - a report from the city hosting this year’s olympics

  Britain, Sport

Europe
No to the debt! No to the austerity! No to the blackmail!

09/02/2012: International struggle can end dictatorship of the markets

  CWI Comment And Analysis, Europe

NEWSFLASH
48-hour general strike tomorrow in Greece

09/02/2012: Anger spilling over against troika austerity

  Greece

Greece
Support for government in free fall

08/02/2012: General strike on 7 February opposes “mediaeval labour conditions!"

  Greece

Syria
Anti-regime protests facing ferocious response

08/02/2012: No trust in Arab League and imperialist powers

  Syria

Kazakhstan
Nazarbayev in Berlin

08/02/2012: A big protest rally in freezing temperatures greeted the Kazakhstan president as he attended a meeting to strengthen relations with the German government and big business.

  Kazakhstan

 Ireland
Joe Higgins addresses packed anti-household tax meeting

04/02/2012: Joe Higgins argues in Cork, 26 January, to resist the household tax: "Yes, we have a choice!"

  Ireland North, Video

Belgium
January 30 General Strike

03/02/2012: A strike corresponding to the level of anger over austerity programme

  Belgium

EU summit
No capitalist solutions to the spiralling eurozone crisis

03/02/2012: The capitalist classes of Europe are all adopting the same policy of attempting to make the working class pay for the capitalist economic crisis.

  Europe

 Nigeria
Story of the great general strike

02/02/2012: A socialist view on recent showdown between government and people

  Nigeria, Video

Italy
Dozens of No TAV activists arrested

01/02/2012: The repression will not stop the movement!

  Italy

Tunisia

Tunisia: “The mass of people continue to struggle”

31/01/2012, Interview with two Tunisian socialists, one year after the fall of Ben Ali
The Socialist, paper of the Socialist Party (CWI in England and Wales)

Tunisia: Thousands occupy Constituent Assembly site

05/12/2011, "Bardo 1" gives a new expression to persistent anger
CWI reporter in Tunis

Tunisia: New government being assembled

26/11/2011, Is the revolution over?
CWI reporter in Tunis

Tunisia: Ennahda’s breakthrough brings major change in political landscape

28/10/2011, Election ‘success story’ masks growing anger from below
CWI reporter in Tunis

Tunisia: Decisive working class action can prevent counter revolution regaining control

09/06/2011, Contribution to the ongoing debate on the Tunisian revolution and its aftermath.
By a CWI activist recently in Tunisia

Tunisia: Impressions of a revolution

23/05/2011, Paul Murphy, MEP, writes about his visit to the country that triggered the ‘Arab Spring’
Paul Murphy, MEP, Socialist Party (CWI Ireland)

Tunisia: "We need a second revolution!"

14/05/2011, Growing threat of counter-revolution as roots of the old regime still remain
Gauche Revolutionnaire (CWI in France)

Tunisia: Militant Mayday march calls for continuing the revolution

03/05/2011, "Workers, you prepare the bread, but you live with the crumbs!"
CWI reporters, Tunis

Tunisia: A fragile pause in the revolution

15/03/2011, ‘You come back – we come back!’
Tim Martyn, Socialist Party, (CWI, England and Wales) recently in Tunisia

Tunisia: Ghannouchi steps down

28/02/2011, Revolution and counter-revolution on the streets
From CWI reporters, Monday 28

Tunisia:New upsurge of revolution

25/02/2011, Protests against government biggest since January 14
CWI Reporter in Tunis

Tunisia: Revolution at a crossroads

03/02/2011, Capitalist ’democracy’ will not satisfy demands
CWI reporter from Tunis

Tunisia: "We need a clean trade union, which really represents the working class"

30/01/2011, Interview with Ghassen Kamarti, by CWI reporter in Tunis
Socialistworld.net

Tunisia: ’Caravans’ of the revolution converge on Tunis

25/01/2011, Army ordered to block roads as police join the movement
Eyewitness account from CWI reporter in Tunis

Tunisia: Victory for the workers and the people!

24/01/2011, The first phase of the revolution ousted Ben Ali! It must continue!
Gauche Revolutionnaire (CWI in France)

Tunisia: “We don’t want this government! It has no legitimacy!”

21/01/2011, Masses demand real democracy and change to social conditions
Interview with CWI reporter in Tunis

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