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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, 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

 Kazakhstan
Campaign leader sentenced to ten days in prison

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

  Kazakhstan, Solidarity

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

23/05/2013: Statement on Woolwich killing

  Britain

 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

  Tunisia, Women

Germany
DIE LINKE and the Euro

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

  Germany, New workers' parties

 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

  Ireland Republic, Video

Germany
Strike at Amazon

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

  Germany

Taiwan
Sea shooting sees Filipino migrants become target of racist backlash

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

  Taiwan

Nigeria
President Jonathan declares state of emergency

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

  Nigeria

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

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

Syria

Syria: Turning point in civil war?

08/01/2013, Regime causes untold civilian suffering and death… rebels’ carry out sectarian massacres - No to imperialist intervention
Arne Johansson, from Offensiv (weekly paper of Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna, CWI in Sweden)

Middle East: The Syrian cauldron

23/08/2012, What began 18 months ago as a popular uprising against the dictatorship of Bashar al-Assad is on its way to becoming a full-blown civil war that could spread around the region.
Niall Mulholland, CWI, first published in Socialism Today (magazine of the Socialist Party, CWI in England & Wales)

Syria: Is there an alternative to the developing civil war?

08/08/2012, Syria’s agony continues unabated.
Niall Mulholland, CWI

Paul Murphy MEP speaks on situation in Syria

13/06/2012, "[A]ny military intervention, regardless of how it’s dressed up...will not ease the suffering of the Syrian people"
Socialist Party (CWI Ireland)

Syria: Houla massacre deepens fears of slide into full-blown civil war

06/06/2012, In struggle against brutal Assad regime, working class must oppose sectarianism and imperialist intervention
Niall Mulholland, CWI

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!
Aysha Zaki, CWI Lebanon

Syria: Anti-regime protests facing ferocious response

08/02/2012, No trust in Arab League and imperialist powers
Judy Beishon, Socialist Party (CWI in England and Wales)

Syria: Eight months of mass protests met with bloody brutality

24/11/2011, United working class-led movement needed for real regime change
Judy Beishon, from The Socialist, weekly newspaper of the Socialist Party (CWI England and Wales)

Syria: State unleashes new terror

08/08/2011, The death toll is rising from the Syrian army’s brutal assault on the mass uprising in the city of Hama and other areas.
Judy Beishon, first published in the Socialist, paper of the Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales), 3 August

Syria: Regime steps up repression…

28/06/2011, But opposition continues to grow
Judy Beishon, from The Socialist, weekly newspaper of the Socialist Party (CWI in England and Wales)

Syria: Assad orders brutal crackdown against opposition

28/04/2011, Only a united struggle of the masses can defeat regime
Robert Bechert, CWI

Syria: The masses awaken

29/03/2011, Bloody repression fails to stop protests
Georg Maier, SLP (CWI in Austria)

women: Kurdish women in Syria have a hard fight

09/03/2007, Kurdish women, who are oppressed inside their community in Syria, are facing two kinds of oppression.
Guleperi Biro, Kurdish asylum-seeker in Cyprus

Lebanon: Civil war illustrates the tragedy of sectarian division

22/09/2005, This year marks the 30th anniversary of Lebanon’s descent into 15 years of horrific civil war.
Kevin Simpson, Committee for a Workers’ International, London

Iraq: Is US imperialism invincible?

03/05/2003, "A WAR to remake the world" is how Michael Ledeen, a leading neo-conservative associated with the Bush government, described the war on Iraq. Exactly how the world could be remade was succinctly explained by White House hawk Richard Perle when he said that victory for US imperialism in Iraq would enable them to "deliver a short message, a two-word message: ’You’re next’".
Hannah Sell

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