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23/05/2013: In the «most developped country for women in the Arab world», the
struggle for women rights remains more relevant than ever
23/05/2013: After Lafontaine’s proposal to get rid of the Euro – what should the
left say?
22/05/2013: Protests needed via embassies
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
22/05/2013: Union-agreed rates could bring Amazon workers 9000 euros more a year
21/05/2013: Anti-racist campaign needed against corrupt ruling elites and capitalism
21/05/2013: An expressway to attacks on democratic rights! For democratic mass
working peoples’ defence committees!
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.
19/05/2013: Increasing concerns and contradictions
18/05/2013: Workers and Socialist Party calls for one-day-general strike
18/05/2013: Iran’s June 14 presidential election takes place against the background
of deep divisions in society and the regime.
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.
15/05/2013: Working class unity needed to defend rights and living standards
14/05/2013: We shouldn’t let either of the major parties tell us that ‘tough
decisions’ or ‘hard cuts’ are required.
13/05/2013: Bus workers take strike action over savage wage cuts and attacks on
conditions
12/05/2013: 15 DSM members arrested at May Day rallies
12/05/2013: How can a state be realised?
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.
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.
10/05/2013: Ruling Barisan Nasional’s widespread fraud enrages opposition supporters
and young people
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.
10/05/2013: Time for a new mass workers’ party
09/05/2013: New clashes on the horizon
08/05/2013: Big landlords, capitalists and influential families are calling the shots
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.
07/05/2013: Union representatives declare a “half success” with a pay rise of 9.8
percent – but important issues are unresolved
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.
05/05/2013: Great event remembers the ’47’ struggle
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.
04/05/2013: Those who created the crisis should be forced to pay.
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.
03/05/2013: Progressive Workers Federation (PWF), TURCP and SMP organised and
intervened in the May Day activities across the country
03/05/2013: It is said that where labour is cheap, life is cheap. This is never more
so than in the recent horrific deaths of over 400 garment workers
crushed in a collapsed building in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh.
03/05/2013: Li Ka-shing owns 13 percent of the world’s port capacity and much more
besides…
02/05/2013: ‘Defend pensions! Stop corruption!’
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|  20/06/2011, Resistance to coalition government’s cuts
Toby Dite, Prague
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| 19/09/2003, On Saturday 13 September 15 to 20,000 Trade Union members demonstrated
in Prague. The protest was against an austerity package proposed by the
government. These reforms were renamed by trade unionists as "deforms”
as they carried a coffin to Premier Vladimir Spidla adorned with slogans
saying “Government manifesto” and “Spidla’s election promises”. Czech
Railway workers blocked the Governments’ office with a railway buffer.
The board attached to it read “The gift of the railwaymen’s union to the
government of Premier Vladimir Spidla”.
Vasek Votruba, Socialisticka alternativa Budoucnost (Socialist
alternative the Future), Prague. |
| 04/02/2003, Prague - The independent federation of tram drivers (FRT) organised a
one day strike on February 4 over wage claims. The main demand is that
tram drivers wages would be equalized with the wages of other transport
workers, like bus drivers in Prague. Picket lines were attacked by
scabs, security guards hired by management and the police force. 10 tram
drivers were injured in the clashes.
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| 24/08/2002, At least one quarter of the Czech Republic was flooded last week after
flash floods. 14 people died because of the disaster (some of them did
not leave flooded houses, and one died when a boat was bombed by the
authorities as a ‘safety preventative measure’). The fire fighters and
other emergency workers did a huge amount of work – they really are
heroes. Immediately after the floods started, they came from all over
the country to help. The police mostly controlled areas to stop looting.
Vasek Votruba, Prague, 22 August 2002 |
| 19/06/2002, Results from last week’s parliamentary elections in the Czech Republic
show that the social democrats (CSSD) won with 30.4%, followed by the
communist party (KSCM) (18.8%), which is the highest vote for the KSCM
since the collapse of Stalinism in 1989.
Vasek Votruba, Prague, 17 June 2002 |
| 01/01/2001, In the Czech Republic, political competition has made television into an
unscrupulous battleground for ambitious bureaucrats, reflecting a
government led by rival parties, the rightist ODS and the leftist CSSD,
who each want so badly to govern that they have forged an unlikely
"opposition agreement."
CWI statement |
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