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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

Britain

CWI in England and Wales: Socialist Party
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http://www.socialistparty.org.uk

see also: Scotland on this site and the website of the Socialist Party Wales and the website of the Socialist Party Scotland

British county elections: Capitalist parties rejected

10/05/2013, Time for a new mass workers’ party
Editorial of the Socialist, paper of the Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)

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.
Claire Laker-Mansfield, Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales), first published in The Socialist

Liverpool: Rally marks 30 year anniversary of election of socialist council

05/05/2013, Great event remembers the ’47’ struggle
Dave Walsh, Unite Convener for Liverpool City Council, from The Socialist, paper of the Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)

Britain: Break with Thatcher’s legacy!

28/04/2013, Socialist policies needed
Peter Taaffe, Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales) general secretary

Britain: MPs refuse to outlaw caste discrimination

26/04/2013, Hundreds of people protested outside London’s Houses of Parliament on 14 April to demand that caste oppression in Britain be outlawed.
TU Senan, CWI

Britain: Combating violence against women

14/04/2013, A socialist perspective on fighting women’s oppression
Hannah Sell, on behalf of the Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales) Executive Committee

Thatcher’s real legacy: Peter Taaffe speaks out on radio

13/04/2013, Peter Taaffe was invited on 10 April to give a series of interviews to BBC Radio local stations on whether there should be protests at Thatcher’s funeral.
Peter Taaffe, Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales) General Secretary radio interviews

Thatcher: A class warrior for capitalism

12/04/2013, Millions have been waiting for this day, 8 April 2013. Margaret Thatcher will never be forgiven for the devastation that her Tory governments’ policies wrought on working class communities in the 1980s - and is still being felt today.
Alistair Tice, Socialist Party regional secretary, Yorkshire