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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!’
02/05/2013: Photos of May Day demonstration in Sindh
02/05/2013: DSM comrades arrested and detained
01/05/2013: CC rules budget illegal for second time, government declares war against
it
01/05/2013: The CWI sends revolutionary greetings and solidarity to workers, young
people and all those exploited by capitalism.
30/04/2013: Irish Presidency brought unprecedented levels of cuts to the EU budget.
29/04/2013: Writing off of any debt accrued due to the bedroom tax, supporting the
building of new social housing, opposing all cuts and austerity measures
28/04/2013: Socialist policies needed
28/04/2013: SSM member, Suiher Daska and other left candidates were elected to the
leadership of the union on the background of the coming struggles
against austerity
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|  01/10/2012, Aged 95, Hobsbawm still participated in the debate about the alternative
to capitalism
socialistworld.net
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|  22/07/2011, This week is the 75th anniversary of the start of the Spanish Civil War,
on 18 July 18. We mark this hugely important event in world history with
an article first published on socialistworld.net in 2009.
Hannah Sell, Socialist Party (CWI in England & Wales)
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|  15/10/2010, Important tool of the working class
Hannah Sell, Socialist Party (CWI in England & Wales) deputy general
secretary
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|  17/09/2010, Capitalism isn’t working. This is the conclusion being drawn by increasing numbers of workers and young people as seemingly every week a new crisis dominates the headlines.
Philip Locker, Socialist Alternative (CWI USA)
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|  30/08/2010, Aren’t people motivated by money? Wouldn’t socialism stifle hard work
and innovation?
Canyon Lalama, Socialist Alternative (CWI USA)
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|  16/04/2010, New foreword to Chinese edition to be published in June 2010 | China,
Maoism, Nepal and India.
Tony Saunois, CWI
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|  02/03/2010, The International Marxist Tendency, IMT, faces its biggest crisis since
its inception. The CWI would welcome an open and honest debate amongst
socialist and Marxist activists about the issues raised by these
developments.
International Secretariat of the CWI
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|  18/02/2010, Introduction to new Urdu edition of ‘Permanent Revolution’ by Leon
Trotsky
Peter Taaffe
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| 26/10/2009, The Rise and Fall of the ‘Swedish Model’
Per Olsson, Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (CWI in Sweden) |
| 07/11/2008, A critique of the Socialist Workers Party, by Peter Taaffe, General
Secretary, Socialist Party, cwi in England and Wales
socialistworld.net |
| 23/12/2007, Lessons from history, the recent experience of Italy and Germany, and
the latest developments in Brazil.
Peter Taaffe, General Secretary, Socialist Pary, England and Wales |
| 01/02/2006, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels on the Trade Unions. Edited by Kenneth
Lapides.
Peter Taaffe, General Secretary, Socialist Party, England and Wales |
| 25/03/2005, Reply by the Peter Taaffe (cwi) to ‘The Ukraine scam, internationals and
internationalism’, by John Percy (DSP, Australia)
Peter Taaffe, cwi |
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