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24/05/2012: For nation-wide union-led mass actions and a 48-hr general strike
24/05/2012: "Growth will not be achieved simply by stamping the word onto an
austerity treaty, because austerity kills growth"
23/05/2012: When authoritarianism faces resistance
23/05/2012: Mass demonstration against EU’s austerity policies
23/05/2012: Third anniversary of slaughter of Tamil people by Sri Lankan army marked
by protests all around the world
21/05/2012: Revolution and counter-revolution
20/05/2012: Anger from below, manoeuvres from the top
19/05/2012: Workers’ organisations must ensure real change
18/05/2012: Police target socialists at protest camp – urgent protests needed!
18/05/2012: Build fighting, democratic trade unions!
18/05/2012: Thousands attempt to occupy squares and blockade the ECB in Frankfurt,
Germany. Protests are banned.
18/05/2012: Leader of the “Leave Peoples’ Homes Alone” campaign and member of the
SMK, Larissa Boyar, and others have been released from prison
15/05/2012: For a Left government! For anti-austerity, pro-worker, socialist
policies!
15/05/2012: Republic’s president, Marzouki, afraid of ‘new revolution’
15/05/2012: "Despite this ferocious oppression, the opposition and discontent of the
working class cannot be silenced"
15/05/2012: Protesters respond by setting up ‘Occupy-Abai’
13/05/2012: "During an election dominated by career politicians who are loyal to big
business, I am running as a Socialist Alternative candidate to make sure
there is at least one independent left-wing, pro-worker candidate in
Washington State worth voting for."
12/05/2012: Step up the Struggle for Equality
12/05/2012: Urgency of a working class alternative proven again
12/05/2012: Lively and political CWI contingent attracts variety of activists
12/05/2012: Meeting discusses involvement in Afghanistan
11/05/2012: Campaign Kazakhstan reports
that newspapers in Kazakhstan said a strike by miners at KazakhMys ended
on 7 May with a complete victory for the workers.
10/05/2012: On 31 May Irish voters are asked to vote on the European fiscal treaty.
This video explains what the treaty is about.
10/05/2012: May Day should have offered opportunity for workers to pose their
demands and agitation before the government
09/05/2012: Austerity rejected in Eurozone’s second biggest economy
09/05/2012: Left presented with big opportunities
09/05/2012: Socialist organisations march to joint rally
07/05/2012: The Con-Dem government suffered a crushing defeat in last Thursday’s
elections for local authorities and in the mayoral contests apart from
London.
06/05/2012: As economic crisis worsens and class struggles continue in Spain,
Greece, Portugal and elsewhere in Europe, the need for working class
fight-back and to build the influence of Marxism grows.
05/05/2012: Socialist Action (CWI) campaigning against the capitalist 1% and against
racism
05/05/2012: Bobby Seale as guest speaker
04/05/2012: Solidarity needed to free Vadim!
04/05/2012: Fotos of impressive march
03/05/2012: For a workers’ programme that puts forward the socialist alternative
03/05/2012: Days of action planned in Frankfurt/Main against European Central Bank
and big finance
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World EconomyKarl Marx and Friedrich Engels wrote in the Communist Manifesto (1847):
"Modern bourgeois society, with its relations of production, of exchange
and of property, a society that has conjured up such gigantic means of
production and of exchange, is like the sorcerer who is no longer able to
control the powers of the nether world whom he has called up by his
spells. [...] And how does the bourgeoisie get over these crises? On the
one hand by enforced destruction of a mass of productive forces; on the
other, by the conquest of new markets, and by the more thorough
exploitation of the old ones. That is to say, by paving the way for more
extensive and more destructive crises, and by diminishing the means
whereby crises are prevented." As these brutal effects of capitalism is
crisis, are unleashed today, the CWI stands in the Marxist tradition of
striving to understand the capitalist economy, in order to be able to
intervene successfully in the class struggle and to end the chaos of this
profit-driven society. |
|  20/04/2012, Paul Murphy MEP attacks President Barroso on the failure of the
austerity policies that he has promoted across Europe.
Paul Murphy, MEP, Socialist Party (CWI Ireland)
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|  25/11/2011, "Can there be any doubt but that we are witnessing a full frontal
assault on democratic rights by European bondholders, bankers and
speculators facilitated by the leadership of the European Union?"
Joe Higgins, TD (member of the
Irish Parliament), Socialist Party (CWI Ireland)
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|  20/11/2011, Fight for socialism
Peter Taaffe, general secretary Socialist Party (CWI England and Wales)
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|  11/11/2011, "A ’No Cannes Do’ summit"
Lynn Walsh, from The Socialist, weekly newspaper of the Socialist Party
(CWI England & Wales)
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|  08/11/2011, Rich hoard wealth - Fight for a socialist future!
Kirk Leonard, CWI
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|  01/11/2011, Study finds 1% of corporations control world economy
Simon Carter, from the Socialist, weekly newspaper of the Socialist
Party (CWI in England & Wales)
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|  22/10/2011, Eurozone crisis deepens
Robert Bechert, CWI
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|  28/09/2011, Stock market trader exposes real views of speculators & parasites
Interview with the BBC on the 26/09/2011
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|  09/08/2011, Trying to control an anarchic and blind system, none of the measures
taken stem the downward spiral
Clare Doyle, International Secretariat of the CWI
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|  05/08/2011, US recovery strangled and European debt crisis deepening
Per Olsson (RS)
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Further articles on 'World Economy':- 01/08/2011: Eurozone: Last-minute rescue package
Lynn Walsh, International Secretariat of the CWI - 29/07/2011: CWI Summer School: World capitalist crisis
Alison Hill, Socialist Party
(CWI England and Wales) - 11/06/2011: Britain: Economic crisis in ’them and us’ Britain
Editorial of the Socialist, paper of the Socialist
Party (CWI England & Wales) - 01/06/2011: Video: A World in Crisis
Video with Lynn Walsh, editor of Socialism Today (magazin of the
Socialist Party - CWI England & Wales) - 27/05/2011: Eurozone: Greek drama continues...
Lynn Walsh, editor of Socialism
Today, magazine of the Socialist
Party (CWI England & Wales) - 26/05/2011: Europe: Struggling to save the eurozone
Lynn Walsh, editor of Socialism
Today, magazine of the Socialist
Party (CWI England & Wales) - 19/05/2011: Eurozone: Crisis deepens
Editorial of the Socialist, paper of the Socialist
Party (CWI England & Wales) - 11/05/2011: Eurozone crisis: Mass action needed to defend working people
Paul Murphy, MEP, Socialist Party (CWI Ireland) - 17/04/2011: Film review: ‘Inside Job’ exposes the corrupt world of finance capitalism
Vincent Kolo, chinaworker.info - 16/04/2011: Britain: Con-Dems’ economic policy ... austerity, austerity, austerity!
Lynn Walsh, Editor of Socialism
Today - 24/03/2011: Japan: Immediate and longer-term effects of disaster
Carl Simmons, Kokusai Rentai (CWI Japan) - 20/03/2011: Forbes’ rich list: The rich get richer - by another $1 trillion
From the Socialist, paper of the Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)
2010: - 05/12/2010: Food crisis: Massive food price hikes spell disaster for poorest people
John Sharpe, Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales) - 03/12/2010: Europe: Joe Higgins challenges ECB President
Joe Higgins, MEP, Socialist
Party (CWI Ireland) speaking in the European Parliament - 26/11/2010: World Economy: Quantitative Easing
Lynn Walsh, from Socialism Today
(December/January 2010-11 issue), journal of the Socialist
Party (CWI England and Wales) - 16/11/2010: Radio interview: Capitalism has failed!
Interview with Cian Predville (Socialist Party, Ireland) and Phillip
Locker (Socialist Alternative, CWI USA) - 15/11/2010: World Economy: Currency war
Lynn Walsh, from October 2010 edition of Socialism
Today, magazine of the Socialist Party (CWI in England & Wales) - 13/10/2010: World economy: Warnings of a "currency war”
Per-Åke Westerlund, from Offensiv, paper of Rättvisepartiet
Socialisterna (CWI in Sweden) - 03/10/2010: Capitalism: The Praetorian Guards of the financial markets
Joe Higgins, MEP, Socialist Party (CWI Ireland) - 26/09/2010: Financial system: New arrangements in Europe without real changes
Joe Higgins, MEP, Socialist Party (CWI Ireland) - 16/09/2010: "Millenium Goals": Hunger for profits fuels starvation
Joe Higgins, MEP Socialist Party (CWI Ireland) - 13/09/2010: Economy Slowing: Double Dip Fears Grow
Greg Beiter, Seattle - 29/08/2010: "Charity": Let them eat cake, not the crumbs off the table ...
Joe Higgins, MEP, Socialist Party (CWI Ireland) - 13/08/2010: Capitalism has failed us: The case for socialism
Here Paul Murphy, Socialist Party (CWI Ireland), outlines the socialist
alternative. - 14/07/2010: World Capitalist Crisis: Class struggles on the rise
Report by Kevin Parslow from CWI Summer School, Belgium - 29/06/2010: G20: From stimulus to austerity at dizzying speed
Editorial from the Socialist, paper of the Socialist Party (CWI England
& Wales) - 25/06/2010: G20: Make the rich pay for their crisis!
Mouvement pour le Parti Socialiste du Québec (CWI in Quebec) and
Socialist Alternative (CWI in Canada) - 09/06/2010: Crisis: Joe Higgins MEP interviewed on the socialist solution to the
crisis
Video with Joe Higgins - 25/04/2010: Banks use microloans to fleece poor
John Sharpe, Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales) - 12/03/2010: World Trade: Higgins condemns use of trade agreements to dominate poor
countries
Joe Higgins speaking in the European Parliament - 09/03/2010: Iceland: 93% say ‘No’ to bail-out for investors
Interview with Skúli Jón Kristinsson, CWI Iceland - 19/02/2010: Europe: Euro tremors
Lynn Walsh, from March 2010 edition of Socialism Today, magazine of the
Socialism Today
2009: - 31/12/2009: New Year 2010: World economic crisis provokes mass revulsion and
anti-capitalism
Peter Taaffe, General Secretary Socialist Party (CWI England and Wales) - 31/12/2009: Audio: Peter Taaffe speaking on Socialism 2009
Speech by Peter Taaffe - 15/12/2009: Video: Segun Sango on Nigeria, World Relations and the CWI
socialistworld.net - 15/12/2009: World Perspectives: Global capitalism’s enduring crisis
Statement by the International Executive Committee of the Committee for
a Workers’ International (CWI) - 06/12/2009: World Economy and Relations: “Worst capitalist crisis since the 1930s”
Report from Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI) meeting, Belgium - 23/11/2009: Economy: Is the worst over?
socialistworld.net - 27/10/2009: World Economy: 80th anniversary of the Wall Street Crash
Peter Taaffe, General Secretary of the Socialist Party (CWI England and
Wales) - 09/10/2009: World Economy: A year of ‘crisis fighting’ by the G20
Vincent Kolo, chinaworker.info - 21/05/2009: Latvia: Unprecedented economic collapse
Per Olsson, Rattvisepartiet Socialisterna (CWI in Sweden) - 07/04/2009: World Economy: London G20 summit provides no solution to world economic
crisis
Peter Taaffe, from The Socialist, weekly paper of the Socialist Party
(CWI England and Wales) - 03/04/2009: CWI Comment and Analysis: The world economic crisis and political
perspectives for Europe
cwi - 25/03/2009: CWI Comment and Analysis: The world economic crisis and political
perspectives for Europe
socialistworld.net - 05/03/2009: World Economy: Has globalisation gone into reverse?
Niall Mulholland, from The Socialist, weekly paper of the Socialist
Party (CWI England and Wales) - 20/01/2009: World Economy: Russia and Eastern Europe in the 90s
Clare Doyle, CWI
2008: - 13/11/2008: World economy: Global recession strikes
Per-Åke Westerlund, from Offensiv, paper of Rättvisepartiet
Socialisterna (CWI Sweden). - 06/11/2008: Baltic States: Financial crisis cripples Baltic states
Davis Kaza, Rattviseparteit Socialisterna (CWI in Sweden) - 27/10/2008: World Economy: The October crisis
Lynn Walsh, editor, Socialism Today, magazine of the Socialist Party,
cwi in England and Wales - 17/10/2008: World Economy: Sweden - The 1990s crisis
Per-Ake Westerlund, Rattvisepartiet Socialisterna (CWI in Sweden) - 10/10/2008: world economy: Market meltdown – capitalists in crisis
Robert Bechert, CWI London - 10/10/2008: world economy: Market meltdown – capitalists in crisis
socialistworld.net - 09/10/2008: World Economy: Wall Street Crash 2008
Jared Wood, from October 9-15 edition of the Socialist, paper of the
Socialist Party (CWI England and Wales) - 09/10/2008: World Economy: Wall Street Crash 2008
Peter Hadden, from October 2008 issue of The Socialist, monthly paper of
the Socialist Party (CWI in Ireland) - 03/10/2008: World Economy: Credit crunch
socialistworld.net - 30/09/2008: Global Economy: ‘Meltdown Monday’ confirms capitalist anarchy
Judy Beishon, Editor of the Socialist, newspaper of Socialist Party,
CWI, England and Wales - 26/09/2008: World Economy: The great implosion
Editorial, Socialism Today, October 2008 - 17/09/2008: World economy: Capitalist crisis
Editorial from The Socialist, paper of the the Socialist Party, cwi in
England and Wales - 24/06/2008: World Economy: False ‘gods’ of a failing system
Review by Peter Taaffe (from The Socialist, weekly paper of the
Socialist Party (CWI) England and Wales) - 11/06/2008: World Economy: Oil price shock - The chaos of capitalism
Lynn Walsh, from The Socialist, weekly paper of the Socialist Party
(England and Wales) - 05/06/2008: World Economy : A crisis foretold
Book review by Lynn Walsh, Editor Socialism Today, monthly magazine of
the Socialist Party (CWI England and Wales) - 28/04/2008: World Food Crisis: Total Failure of Capitalism
Peluola Adewale, Democratic Socialist Movement, CWI Nigeria, Lagos - 23/04/2008: Economy: World food crisis
Robert Bechert, CWI, London - 21/04/2008: Economy: Rebirth of Keynesianism?
Peter Taaffe, General Secretary, Socialist Party, cwi in England and
Wales - 03/04/2008: World Economy: Bear Stearns bail-out
Lynn Walsh, Editor Socialism Today (monthly magazine of the Socialist
Party – CWI in England and Wales) - 25/03/2008: World economic crisis: The consequences for workers’ struggles in Europe
CWI European Bureau Theses - 27/02/2008: World Economy: Global capitalism’s deepening crisis
Lynn Walsh, Editor, Socialism Today, monthly magazine of the Socialist
Party (CWI England and Wales) - 28/01/2008: World economy: A global shock to the system
Lynn Walsh, Socialist Party - 14/01/2008: World economy: Why have food prices reached a record high?
Per-Åke Westerlund, Offensiv, (CWI Sweden)
2007: - 17/11/2007: World economy: Bosses’ crisis, workers pay
Lynn Walsh, Socialist Party (England and Wales CWI) - 01/10/2007: World Economy: Credit crunch threatens global downturn
Editorial from October issue of Socialism Today, monthly magazine of the
Socialist Party (CWI England and Wales) - 23/08/2007: World economy: $4.5 trillion wiped from global stock markets in a month
Laurence Coates, Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna, cwi Sweden, Stockholm - 23/08/2007: World economy: Fundamentaly unsound
Editorial, The Socialist newspaper, Socialist Party (England and Wales),
London - 18/05/2007: World economy: Forever blowing bubbles? What is happening to the world
economy?
Lynn Walsh, Editor, Socialism Today - 04/01/2007: World Economy: Micro credits founder wins Nobel prize
Sonja Grusch, Socialist Left Party, CWI, Austria
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recession, which is likely to be protracted.
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25/11/2011, Fragmentation of the Eurozone could trigger another deep financial
crisis and global economic downturn
07/10/2011, Eurozone threatened by sovereign debt and banking crisis and compounded
by near-zero growth
04/10/2011, 24 Hour Public Sector General Strike Now - Socialist Party placard,
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25/08/2011, Capitalist strategists are filled with gloom at the prospect of a new
economic downturn.
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