  latest news
24/05/2013: Interview on Militant, the Labour Party and the struggle of the
socialist led council 1983-87 in Liverpool
24/05/2013: The Tories are thrashing around in ever-deeper water on the issue of
Europe.
23/05/2013: MEP demands immediate release of Housing Campaigners - solidarity still
needed
23/05/2013: Statement on Woolwich killing
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.
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|  25/04/2013, A surprisingly devastating critique of the ANC’s failure to ensure ‘a
better life for all’; BBC2 April 24th and online
Alec Thraves, Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)
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|  24/04/2013, Following the launch of the WASP the work is ongoing to, on the one
hand, complete the formal registration of the party and, on the other,
sink its roots and establish its structures across South Africa.
Liv Shange, DSM (CWI South Africa)
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|  30/03/2013, The launch of the Workers & Socialist Party was the direct outcome of
the struggles of the mineworkers of South Africa throughout the course
of last year.
Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI in South Africa) reporters
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|  22/03/2013, "A political party has been born in the aftermath of the Marikana mine
massacre - the Workers’ and Socialist Party (Wasp)", media report
CWI
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|  21/03/2013, Launch surpassed all expectations
CWI reporters, South Africa
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|  12/03/2013, Ruling establishments have long tried to ‘domesticate’ international
women’s day – to shed crocodile tears for the victims of gender
oppression
Liv Shange, Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI South Africa)
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|  21/02/2013, “You cannot buy the bravery of the South African mineworkers: no
surrender!”
Peter Taaffe, Socialist Party (CWI in England & Wales) General Secretary
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|  15/02/2013, Hundreds-strong meeting hears speeches from visiting CWI members
By Sean Figg, Johannesburg
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|  13/02/2013, Hardening solid gold
Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI in South Africa)
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|  31/01/2013, Statement on the retrenchment threats by Anglo America n Platinum and
Harmony Gold
Weizmann Hamilton, DSM (CWI South Africa)
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|  28/01/2013, Representatives from miners’ strike committees, community groups, trade
unions and left organisations met to discuss development new Workers &
Socialist Party
CWI reporters, South Africa
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|  22/01/2013, Mass protest at court – urgent solidarity needed
Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI in South Africa) reporters
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|  11/01/2013, South African press announces founding of Workers’ and Socialist Party
socialistworld.net
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|  10/01/2013, Workers lives are threatened after a week without food, access to
medication
Liv Shange, DSM (CWI South Africa)
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|  20/12/2012, WASP will now mobilise support for the party
Press Release, 17 Dec 2012, DSM Executive Committee, the Strike and
Workers’ Committee Representatives of Bokoni Platinum, Harmony Gold,
Anglo Gold Ashanti, Royal Bafokeng and Murray Roberts.
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Further articles on 'South Africa':- 11/12/2012: South Africa: From the miners’ strike to a new mass workers’ party
Interview with Mametlwe Sebei, Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI South
Africa), by Mel Gregson, Socialist Party (CWI Australia) - 01/11/2012: South Africa: Miners’ struggle continues
From The Socialist, weekly paper of the Socialist
Party (CWI England and Wales) - 19/10/2012: South Africa: From apartheid to Marikana
April Ashley, Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales) and black members’
rep on Unison national executive (personal capacity) - 18/10/2012: South Africa: Workers confront brutal South African capitalism
Alec Thraves, Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales). Alec has just
returned from a visit to South Africa. - 17/10/2012: South Africa: Strike Committee asks for financial support
Appeal by Rustenburg Joint Strike Coordinating Committee - 16/10/2012: South Africa: Striking miners take an important step forward
Democratic Socialist Movement, DSM (CWI South Africa) - 15/10/2012: South Africa: National Strike Coordinating Committee launched
Mametlwe Sebei, DSM (CWI South Africa), speaking at press conference (13
October 2012) - 13/10/2012: South Africa: Rustenburg workers host first meeting of national strike
committee meeting
Rustenburg Joint Strike Coordinating Committee statement, 12 October 2012 - 12/10/2012: South Africa: ’What are we doing about this government that is killing
us?’
Interview with Mametlwe Sebei, Democratic Socialist Movement, DSM (CWI
South Africa) - 06/10/2012: South Africa: "All out on united strike!"
Socialistworld.net - 02/10/2012: South Africa: Support the miners – donate to the Workers’ Defence Fund
[updated]
Weizmann Hamilton and Alec Thraves - 28/09/2012: South Africa: ’Lonmin settlement a victory - struggle pays!’
Statement of the Rustenburg Joint Strike Coordinating Committee, 19
September - 21/09/2012: South Africa: Marikana massacre ignites the mass movement
Weizmann Hamilton, Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI in South Africa),
from Socialism Today, magazine of the Socialist Party (CWI in England &
Wales) - 15/09/2012: South Africa: Paul Murphy MEP speaks on miners’ struggle
socialistworld.net - 14/09/2012: South Africa: Miners’ struggle spreads and intensifies
socialistworld.net - 07/09/2012: South Africa: Solidarity protests in Nigeria and Ireland
Socialistworld.net - 04/09/2012: South Africa: The Marikana Massacre
Weizmann Hamilton, Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI in South Africa) - 24/08/2012: Solidarity: International protests following Lonmin massacre in South
Africa
Socialistworld.net - 22/08/2012: South Africa: Marikana massacre, the struggle continues
Liv Shange, Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI in South Africa) - 18/08/2012: Britain: [updated] Solidarity with South African miners
CWI - 17/08/2012: South Africa: Solidarity with Lonmin’s miners
DSM (CWI South Africa) - 14/03/2012: South Africa: One-day general strike shows workers’ willingness to fight
back
Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI in South Africa) Reporters - 17/02/2012: South Africa: Video of protest against unfair dismissal of mine workers
Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI in South Africa)
2011: 2010: 2009: 2008: 2007: 2006: 2005: 2004: 2003: 2002: - 12/10/2002: South Africa: Democratic Socialist Movement conference
Committee for a Workers’ International, 11 October 2002 - 27/09/2002: Germany: No choice elections
Sascha Stanicic, Berlin, 26 September 2002 - 25/09/2002: South Africa: Two day general strike set for October
Issued by the Democratic Socialist Movement, September 2002 - 05/09/2002: South Africa: Powell’s humiliation closes Earth Summit Fiasco
Weizmann Hamilton, Johannesburg, 4 September 2002 - 03/09/2002: South Africa: Johannesburg Earth Summit
Weizmann Hamilton, South Africa - 23/07/2002: South Africa: Cosatu call two day general strike as SAMWU’S mass action
breathes life into anti-privatisation campaign.
Weizmann Hamilton, Democratic Socialist Movement, South Africa, 23 July
2002
2001:
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