  latest news
20/06/2013: New layer of workers, youth and poor has entered the scene with the
promise: “This is just the beginning – the struggle continues”
19/06/2013: Socialist MEP condemns police violence during Turkey/ EU trade relations
session
18/06/2013: Well over 250,000 in approximately 20 cities took to the streets
18/06/2013: Revelations by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden have exposed US
hypocrisy over cyber-spying
17/06/2013: End the rule of big business, poverty and war
16/06/2013: Mass demonstrations against the increase of bus fares in all major cities
15/06/2013: “We will defend our rights and continue fighting”.
15/06/2013: Fed up with continued oppression, workers under the banner of ’Pradeep
Laminators Workers’ Union’ have started a propaganda campaign against
the bosses.
13/06/2013: MEP Paul Murphy criticises EU foreign policy representative, Catherine
Ashton, over calls for ’restraint on all sides’
12/06/2013: Unions must organise general strike action now!
12/06/2013: Socialist MP slams huge security operation and anti-working class record
of world leaders
11/06/2013: Erdogan seeks trial of strength with mass protests
11/06/2013: Oppose the summit of capitalist leaders, argues Paul Murphy in the
European Parliament
11/06/2013: Report from London, with CWI comment on the developments in Turkey
11/06/2013: A genuine working class fighter and a revolutionary socialist
10/06/2013: Socialist Party MEP Paul Murphy travelled to Istanbul to see the
protests first-hand – and in his diary from the visit he tells us that
the response from the country’s Prime Minister has been “brutal”.
08/06/2013: 24th anniversary of Beijing’s crackdown draws 150,000 protestors
08/06/2013: Urgent need for independent working class socialist organisations
08/06/2013: Paul Murphy to visit heart of Turkish Protests
07/06/2013: An 18-year-old student activist Clement Meric was murdered in Paris in
broad daylight, on 5 June, by neo-fascist skinheads. This must be
answered by mass mobilisation to halt attempts by the far right to raise
its head.
07/06/2013: Police repression in the belly of the beast
06/06/2013: A group of 12 MEPs from the left wing group in the European Parliament,
GUE-NGL, have signed a joint message of support to Anti-G8 protestors
ahead of the summit in two weeks’ time.
05/06/2013: Unrest grows over economic and social issues
04/06/2013: Public sector workers take strike action against police violence – For a
one day general strike as a next step to bring down the government!
04/06/2013: Over 2,000 poeple attended the anti - bedroom tax rally in Glasgow’s
George Square on June 1 called by the Scottish Anti Bedroom Tax
Federation.
02/06/2013: Secret Services bolster police ahead of G8 Summit in N Ireland
01/06/2013: Vital lessons for today’s democracy struggle
31/05/2013: ‘Boycott, divestment and sanctions’- questions and answers about the BDS
campaign
30/05/2013: Rising support for UKIP shows both the erosion of established party
loyalties and the existence of a profound vacuum of working-class
political representation.
29/05/2013: EU council meeting: Another attempt to put the burden of the capitalist
crisis on the shoulders of youth and working people
28/05/2013: Sweden once had a reputation as some kind of ‘social-democratic model’
with far-reaching public services and social support. But that has been
dismantled by two decades of attacks – what the Economist magazine calls
a ‘silent revolution’
28/05/2013: Profits from destruction
25/05/2013: The one day protest general strike held on 21 May was a significant step
forward for the working class in Sri Lanka.
24/05/2013: Neo-liberalism and police violence have created social time-bomb
24/05/2013: Interview on Militant, the Labour Party and the struggle of the
socialist led council 1983-87 in Liverpool
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|  19/07/2012, Arab revolutions, Sri Lanka, Algeria, Brazil…lessons from history and
today’s struggles
Cillian Gillespie, Socialist Party (CWI Ireland)
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|  02/06/2011, Across the Middle East and North Africa the revolutions and protests
that began after Mohamed Bouazizi’s suicide in protest at poverty and
oppression in Tunisia have, in many countries, reached turning points.
Robert Bechert, CWI
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|  13/04/2011, Decisive workers’ action necessary
Robert Bechert, CWI
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|  09/03/2011, Against sectarianism and capitalism – for a workers alternative!
CWI Lebanon
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|  08/03/2011, Herculean efforts to remove Gaddafi dictatorship in Libya
Peter Taaffe, General Secretary, Socialist Party (CWI in England & Wales)
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|  04/03/2011, Founders of new activists’ party detained
Rukhsana Manzoor and Khalid Bhatti, SMP (CWI in Pakistan)
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|  01/03/2011, Police kill demonstrators – workers block oil port
Yemeni socialist
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|  28/02/2011, Masses reject foreign intervention as towns fall to opposition
Niall Mulholland, CWI
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|  21/02/2011, To fully succeed, revolutions need to go beyond framework of capitalism
Peter Taaffe, from The Socialist, newspaper of the Socialist Party (CWI
England & Wales)
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|  10/02/2011, Jonas Brännberg Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (CWI in Sweden) spoke to
an exiled activist from Yemen about the situation.
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|  28/12/2010, The crisis of capitalism and the naked role of imperialism are
graphically manifested in the Middle East.
Document No. 3, CWI World Congress
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|  24/09/2010, CWI
leaflet: Workers need to organise independently!
Socialistworld.net
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|  27/01/2010, For the building of movements and the intensification of activities to
bring down the ‘Rafah wall’ - organisation of workers and the poor is
the only true solidarity
CWI Lebanon leaflet
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| 10/11/2009, Mass opposition movements & strikes the way forward - Workers need to
organise independently!
Socialistworld.net |
Further articles on 'Middle East':- 06/08/2009: Middle East: Regional talks and conflicts reflect new impasse
Aysha Zaki – CWI Lebanon - 17/02/2009: Middle East: A witness to the Gaza slaughter
Socialist Struggle Movement (CWI in Israel) - 03/02/2009: Middle East: Dubai financial city becomes ghost town
Tamer Mahdi, CWI in Lebanon - 23/01/2009: Middle East: Israeli regime’s brutal assault kills and injures
thousands, leaves Gaza in ruins
Robert Bechert, International Secretariat, CWI - 21/01/2009: Middle East: Gaza war paves way for further conflict
Editorial, The Socialist, paper of the Socialist Party (cwi in England
and Wales) - 19/01/2009: Middle East: Gaza - War is not the route to peace
Joe Higgins, Socialist Party (CWI in Ireland), from the Irish Daily
Mail, 7 January - 16/01/2009: Middle East: End the invasion of Gaza
Peter Hadden, from January 2009 issue of The Socialist (paper of the
Socialist Party – CWI Ireland) - 14/01/2009: Middle East: Stop the Israeli state terror
Judy Beishon, Editor, The Socialist, paper of the Socialist Party, cwi
in England and Wales - 14/01/2009: Middle East: Mass struggle to stop the assault on Gaza
Socialist Struggle Movement (Tnu`at Maavak Sotzyalisti/Harakat Nidal
Eshteraki) � CWI in Israel - 12/01/2009: Middle East: In solidarity with the Palestinian people
CWI Lebanon - 12/01/2009: Cuba: Review of ‘CHE - Part 1’ film
Tony Saunois, CWI London - 08/01/2009: Middle East: Stop the slaughter in Gaza
socialistworld.net - 06/01/2009: Middle East: Stop the slaughter in Gaza
Judy Beishon, Editor, The Socialist, paper of the Socialist Party, cwi
in England and Wales - 05/01/2009: Middle East: Protests in Israel against Gaza onslaught
Report from Socialist Struggle Movement (Tnu`at Maavak
Sotzyalisti/Harakat Nidal Eshteraki – CWI in Israel) - 03/01/2009: Middle East: Opposing the Gaza slaughter from within Israel
Socialist Struggle Movement (Tnu`at Maavak Sotzyalisti/Harakat Nidal
Eshteraki – CWI in Israel) - 02/01/2009: Middle East: Stop the Slaughter in Gaza
Socialist Party (England and Wales CWI) leaflet text
2008: 2006: - 21/09/2006: Middle East: Iraq, Iran, Lebanon, Palestine...
From ’The Socialist’, paper of the Socialist Party (England and Wales) - 30/08/2006: Middle East: the character of Hezbollah
Kevin Simpson, CWI - 29/08/2006: Middle East: Israeli capitalism suffers defeat in Lebanese war
Kevin Simpson, CWI - 19/07/2006: Middle East: Eyewitness comment from Beirut and Haifa
socialistworld.net - 18/07/2006: Middle East: Israeli regime’s air invasion of Lebanon threatens regional
war
Kevin Simpson, cwi, London - 13/07/2006: Middle East: Crisis and conflict spreads and deepens
Kevin Simpson, cwi, London - 29/01/2006: Israel/Palestine: Political earthquake strikes as Hamas wins landslide
Kevin Simpson, CWI, London
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