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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

Socialism
Answering Common Questions

31/01/2012: Frequently asked questions

Kazakhstan
Free Vadim Kuramshin!

31/01/2012: Urgent solidarity needed

  Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan
‘Labour Start’ editor makes outrageous claims against oil workers and CWI

31/01/2012: Worldwide solidarity campaign means the Kazakhstan regime can no longer deny 16 December massacre

  Kazakhstan

Tunisia
“The mass of people continue to struggle”

31/01/2012: Interview with two Tunisian socialists, one year after the fall of Ben Ali

  Tunisia

US
For an independent Left challenge in Presidential elections

30/01/2012: Fight Against Corporate Politics

  US

 US
Capitalist crisis and the occupy movement

30/01/2012: Bryan Koulouris explains how the USA is being transformed by the occupy movements which have arisen in anger at the growing inequality between the 1% and the 99% in the United States

  US, Video

Climate change
Dithering in Durban

30/01/2012: Once again, a United Nations-sponsored climate change conference has completely failed to address the issue of global warming.

  Environment

Cyprus
Partial general strike paralyses public sector

29/01/2012: December’s industrial action against austerity just the beginning of the fight-back!

  Cyprus

Asia
Feeling the coming storm

29/01/2012: Whole continent on the verge of major social convulsions and political shocks

  Asia, CWI Comment And Analysis

Latin America
No escape from world crisis

28/01/2012: The illusory appearance of a peculiar isolation from the international picture of stagnation, recession and economic crisis is fragile - a new period of turbulent class conflict lays ahead

  CWI Comment And Analysis, Latin America

China
“I was arrested by China’s Secret Police”.

27/01/2012: CWI’s Zhang Shujie speaks out at hearing in Sweden’s parliament

  China

Egypt
Huge crowds in Tahrir Square mark revolution anniversary

26/01/2012: Masses in Cairo and other cities demand end to military rule

  Egypt

China
‘Long Hair’ to attend Stockholm hearing on state repression

26/01/2012: LSD legislator from Hong Kong to speak in support of young socialist Zhang Shujie, forced to flee China

  China

 CWI International Meeting
Illusion of stability in Latin America

25/01/2012: Contradictions and new struggles define situation in region

  CWI, Latin America

Brazil
In defence of Pinheirinho inhabitants!

25/01/2012: 3 year old child killed in fatal repression

  Brazil

Kazakhstan
New wave of arrests against opposition

25/01/2012: Release Vadim Kuramshin and all those arrested – End harassment of opposition activists!

  Kazakhstan

 Kazakhstan
After the Zhanaozen clampdown

25/01/2012: 16 December underlined the need for the workers’ movement to link economic demands to the struggle to bring down the regime

  Kazakhstan, Video

USA
Mobilize to Support Longshore Workers

24/01/2012: Key Battle for the Labour and Occupy Movements

  US

 CWI International Meeting
World capitalism in crisis

22/01/2012: As world economy worsens, inter-imperialist relations intensify

  CWI, CWI Comment And Analysis

Britain
Stephen Lawrence murder – The untold story

21/01/2012: How socialists and the local community fought back against racism and the BNP

  Britain

Scotland
ConDem government blunders independence referendum

20/01/2012: Scottish National Party’s version of indepdendence a nightmare for workers

  Scotland

Egypt
A year of revolution and counter-revolution

18/01/2012: As economic crisis worsens, new class conflicts loom

  Egypt

Nigeria
Widespread disapointment and anger as labour suspends strike

17/01/2012: Struggle forces Jonathan back a bit, but could have won far more with a more resolute leadership - We Condemn Repression by Police and Army

  Nigeria

Mexico

Mexico: Interview with Mexican workers in struggle.

19/12/2008, Resistance to neo-liberalism growing
socialistworld.net

Mexico: Conflict in Oaxaca rumbles on

30/07/2007, State and federal police attack demonstration and arrest 31 people, leaving countless wounded
Karl Debbaut, cwi, London

Mexico: Leaders of APPO, including Flavio Sosa, arrested in Mexico City

07/12/2006, Calderon government accused of state terrorism against the peoples of Oaxaca
Juan Guerrero, Mexico City

Mexico: More violence in Oaxaca

27/11/2006, Confrontations between police and demonstrators result in 48 wounded and 60 arrests
Juan Guerrero, Mexico City

Mexico: Hundreds of thousands gather for inauguration of legitimate president López Obrador

22/11/2006, "Se ve, se siente, tenemos presidente"
Juan Guerrero, Mexico City

Mexico: Hundreds travel to Oaxaca to show solidarity with mass protesters

18/11/2006, ‘Monument to the Revolution’, Mexico DF - that is our rendezvous for last Saturday morning, 9 am.
Eyewitness report by Juan Guerrero (CWI)

Mexico: Low intensity war against the people of Oaxaca

14/11/2006, 25 deaths, 400 disappearances as the federal state clamps down to kill APPO
Dirk Kozijns, Mexico City, Friday 10 of November 2006

Mexico: Police and army move against the rebellion in Oaxaca

30/10/2006, Police in civilian clothes shoot four people before moving in with armoured trucks and helicopters
Karl Debbaut, CWI, Monday, 30 October

Mexico:"Social upheaval inflames Mexico

06/10/2006, This was the headline in the US Wall Street Journal in its weekend edition on 1-3 September.
Tony Saunois, CWI, London, Friday 6 October 2006

Mexico: Federal electoral tribunal names Calderon as president

08/09/2006, Massive election fraud stands while opposition gears up for more radical action
Karl Debbaut, CWI, London, Friday 8 September 2006.

Mexico: A battle against election fraud

25/08/2006, Thousands join massive encampments stretching for seven miles
Tony Saunois, cwi

Mexico: Right-wing election fraud

11/07/2006, "If there is no solution, there will be revolution"
Tony Saunois, CWI, London

Mexico: Another Stolen Presidency?

07/07/2006, The Country threatens to erupt if the right steals another election
Alan Jones, New York, US

Mexico: mass protest force Fox to back down

29/04/2005, Reactionary capitalist parties risk explosion of anger
Adam Ziemkowski, Mexico City, Socialist Alternative (cwi us), Friday 29 April 2005

Mexico: Zapatistas in Mexico City. What next?

03/03/2001, Mounting excitement gripped Mexico in early March as the 15-day "Zapatour" by 23 Zapatista (EZLN) comandantes and subcomandante Marcos made its way from Chiapas towards Mexico City. The EZLN followed, in the last leg of their trip, the historic route taken by the legendary Emiliano Zapata and the revolutionary southern army in 1914 during the Mexican Revolution of 1911-1920. Robert Bechert witnessed the Zapatistas arrival.
Robert Bechert, CWI.

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