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Turkey
“Warlike violence” to crush the movement

20/06/2013: New layer of workers, youth and poor has entered the scene with the promise: “This is just the beginning – the struggle continues”

Turkey
Stop the repression

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

Brazil
Protest spreading

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

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

G8 summit
No to G8 austerity

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

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

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

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

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.

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’

Greece
Government shuts down state broadcaster ERT

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

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

Turkey
“Vandals” continue to fight back

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

G8
Join the protest!

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

Turkey
International solidarity protests

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

Obituary
Comrade Kemelo Ernest Mokgalagadi

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

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

Brazil

CWI in Brazil: Liberdade Socialismo e Revolução (Liberty, Socialism and Revolution)
Liberdade Socialismo e Revolução, Caixa Postal 02009, CEP 01031-970, Sao Paulo, SP, Brasil, email
http://www.lsr-cit.org

Brazil: Protest spreading

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

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
André Ferrari LSR (CWI in Brazil)

Environment: Brazil’s forests

28/05/2013, Profits from destruction
Ben Robinson, Socialist Party (CWI England and Wales)

Brazil: Government parties win municipal elections

26/10/2012, But growing contradictions for President Dilma Rouseff, as Party of Socialism and Freedom makes gains
André Ferrari, Liberty, Socialism and Revolution (CWI in Brazil) and member of PSOL National Board

CWI Summer School: The role of the working class in the revolution in the neo-colonial world

19/07/2012, Arab revolutions, Sri Lanka, Algeria, Brazil…lessons from history and today’s struggles
Cillian Gillespie, Socialist Party (CWI Ireland)

Brazil: Economy slowing down

08/07/2012, Contrary to official propaganda, Brazil’s economy is still vulnerable
By Marcus Kollbrunner, Liberdade Socialismo e Revolução (CWI Brazil)

Brazil: Leading trade unionist sacked by AB InBev for denouncing the death of a worker in the factory

14/03/2012, Call for solidarity and pressure upon the company to reverse this new attack
LSR (CWI in Brazil)

Brazil: Worker killed at AmBev brewery

15/02/2012, Beer with the taste of blood of workers don’t go down smoothly
By Joaquim Aristeu worker at AmBev, Vice President of Comision Interna para Prevención de Accidentes); member of State Council of CSP-CONLUTAS and LSR (CWI) Brazil

Brazil: In defence of Pinheirinho inhabitants!

25/01/2012, 3 year old child killed in fatal repression
Solidarity statement from the International Executive Committee of the CWI on 20 January 2012

Brazil: Third Congress of PSOL

14/12/2011, Attempt to block electoral alliances with ruling parties fails
André Ferrari, LSR (CWI Brazil)

Brazil: Left union opposition advances in the fight for the leadership of SINTAEMA

04/11/2011, A list of opposition activists led by the LSR (CWI in Brazil) will contest the second round of elections for the leadership of the largest union of sanitation workers in Latin America.
Liberty, Socialism and Revolution (CWI in Brazil) Reporters