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Taiwan
Sea shooting sees Filipino migrants become target of racist backlash

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

Nigeria
President Jonathan declares state of emergency

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

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

May Day in Nigeria
Jonathan government intensifies attacks on democratic rights

12/05/2013: 15 DSM members arrested at May Day rallies

May Day, Nigeria

Israel/Palestine
The Palestinians’ struggle

12/05/2013: How can a state be realised?

Israel / Palestine

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

Pakistan
May Day 2013

03/05/2013: Progressive Workers Federation (PWF), TURCP and SMP organised and intervened in the May Day activities across the country

May Day, Video

Bangladesh building collapse
Casualties of a rotten profit system

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.

Bangladesh

Hong Kong
Dockers’ strike shines a spotlight on Li Ka-shing’s business empire

03/05/2013: Li Ka-shing owns 13 percent of the world’s port capacity and much more besides…

Hong Kong

Taiwan
Over 20,000 march on May Day

02/05/2013: ‘Defend pensions! Stop corruption!’

May Day, Taiwan

Pakistan
May Day demonstration in Sindh

02/05/2013: Photos of May Day demonstration in Sindh

May Day, Pakistan

Nigeria
Militarisation of May Day rallies

02/05/2013: DSM comrades arrested and detained

May Day, Nigeria, Solidarity

Portugal
Constitutional court ruling sends government into disarray

01/05/2013: CC rules budget illegal for second time, government declares war against it

Portugal

May Day Greetings

01/05/2013: The CWI sends revolutionary greetings and solidarity to workers, young people and all those exploited by capitalism.

May Day

Europe
EU austerity budget – cuts, cuts, cuts

30/04/2013: Irish Presidency brought unprecedented levels of cuts to the EU budget.

Europe

World Economy

Karl 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.

World economy: "Central banks are flying blind"

19/05/2013, Increasing concerns and contradictions
Per-Åke Westerlund, from Offensiv, newspaper of Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (CWI Sweden)

World economy: Behind the stock market surge

16/04/2013, In the first week of March share prices surged on the New York Stock Exchange followed by other major exchanges. Does this signify a revival of the global capitalist economy?
Lynn Walsh, editor of Socialism Today, magazine of the Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales), where this article was first published

World economy: Optimism at Davos based on reality?

13/02/2013, IMF and World Bank reduce growth predictions
Editorial in this week’s Offensiv, paper of Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (CWI Sweden)

Europe’s car industry: Another crisis in the making

27/09/2012, For a European-wide and international strategy of the trade unions to defend factories, jobs and working conditions
Stephan Kimmerle, CWI

Euro crisis: The latest temporary fix

19/09/2012, The problems of the eurozone, rooted in the clash of national interests and the rivalries of capitalist leaders, remain as intractable as ever.
Lynn Walsh, editor of Socialism Today (magazine of the Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)

Food: Scoffing on profits

27/08/2012, Billions around the world suffer from either malnourishment or obesity.
Iain Dalton, Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)

World economy: A way out of depression?

26/08/2012, Global capitalism is mired in depression. A Keynesian tract for our times by Paul Krugman proposes a way out
Lynn Walsh, editor of Socialism Today, magazine of the Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)

UN: Arms Trade Treaty negotiations expose hypocrisy of industry

10/08/2012, After a month of negotiations on an Arms Trade Treaty at the United Nations in New York, the discussions came to an ignominious end last Friday when, first the United States and then Russia and China, pulled the plug on any agreement.
Joe Higgins, TD, Socialist Party (CWI Ireland)

World economy: £13 trillion hidden from tax by super-rich

04/08/2012, Take the wealth off the 1%!
Naomi Byron, Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales), first published in the Socialist

CWI Summer School: A stormy period for the world economy and relations

10/07/2012, Capitalist crisis and workers’ mass struggles take global dimensions
Finghín Kelly, Socialist Party (CWI Ireland)

World economy: Riding the double-dipper

27/06/2012, Capitalist leaders are in disarray as they strive and fail to get to grips with the eurozone crisis and its threat to the global economy
Lynn Walsh, from Socialism Today, magazine of the Socialist Party (CWI in England & Wales)

Euro crisis: Greece heads for the exit

26/05/2012, Eurozone convulsed by turbulent economic forces and political upheavals
Lynn Walsh, editor of Socialism Today, magazine of the Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)

EU: Turning Europe into an economic wasteland

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)

The euro patient: ‘Stabilised’ but still critical

29/03/2012, The European economies are in the throes of an austerity-induced recession, which is likely to be protracted.
Lynn Walsh, editor of Socialism Today, magazine of the Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)

World economy: The year of all risks

15/01/2012, On the brink of a new downturn
Lynn Walsh, editor of Socialism Today, monthly magazine of the Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)

Europe: The Markets rule

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)