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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
24/05/2013: The Tories are thrashing around in ever-deeper water on the issue of
Europe.
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|  21/12/2012, 15% of Dutch population faces poverty conditions
Pieter Brans, Socialist Alternative (CWI in Netherlands) Amsterdam
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|  13/09/2012, New coalition government promises austerity politics – Workers’ will
resist!
Pieter Brans, Socialist Alternative (CWI in Netherlands) Amsterdam
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|  11/09/2012, Socialist Party reneging on retirement disappoints workers
Pieter Brans, Socialist Alternative (CWI in Netherlands) Amsterdam
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|  05/09/2012, Socialist policies needed to oppose austerity and to win majority
support!
Pieter Brans, Socialist Alternative (CWI in Netherlands) Amsterdam
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|  10/07/2012, Working class faces battle against cuts
Pieter Brans, Socialist Alternative (CWI in Netherlands) Amsterdam
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|  13/02/2012, Workers need a party with anti-cuts, socialist policies not coalitions
with capitalist parties!
Pieter Brans, Socialist Alternative (CWI in Netherlands) Amsterdam
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|  12/10/2010, New paper and website of CWI in Netherlands!
Pieter Brans, Socialist Alternative (CWI in Netherlands) Amsterdam.
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| 12/06/2010, Big industrial and social conflicts ahead!
Pieter Brans, Offensief (CWI supporters in Netherlands), Amsterdam |
|  08/03/2010, Geert Wilders’ anti-immigrant, right wing ‘Freedom Party’ makes gains
Pieter Brans, Offensief (CWI supporters in Netherlands), Amsterdam
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|  22/02/2010, Pro-establishment parties plan huge cuts programme after new elections
Pieter Brans, Offensief (CWI supporters in Netherlands), Amsterdam
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|  14/01/2010, Cuts-making coalition government under strain, as elections loom
Pieter Brans, Offensief (CWI supporters in Netherlands), Amsterdam
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| 03/07/2009, Opposition Socialist Party appeals to Dutch nationalism but fails to
make polls headway
By reporters from ‘Offensief’ (newspaper of CWI co-thinkers in the
Netherlands) |
| 08/04/2009, Rank and file looking for fighting, socialist response to economic
crisis and right wing government
Emil Jacobs, Offensief (CWI Netherlands) |
| 25/07/2008, Workers demand living wages
Bas De Ruiter, Offensief (CWI Netherlands) |
| 06/05/2008, Good response to CWI paper and leaflets in Rotterdam and Amsterdam.
Bas De Ruiter, Offensief, cwi Netherlands |
| 12/09/2007, ’Committee for Democratisation of the SP’ gains support
Patrick Zoomermeijer, Offensief (CWI Netherlands), Zaanstreek |
Further articles on 'Netherlands':2006: 2005: - 30/10/2005: Netherlands: Immigrants die in fire “Like rats in a trap”
Elizabeth Bakker, cwi, Amsterdam - 18/08/2005: Netherlands: Repercussions of the “NO” vote against the European
constitution
Elisabeth Bakker, Offensief, Netherlands - 02/06/2005: Netherlands: Dutch give overwhelming ’No’ to EU Constitution
Ron Blom, Offensief (CWI Netherlands), Thursday 2 July 2005 - 10/05/2005: Netherlands: Thousands take to the streets against Bush’s visit
Ron Blom, Offensief (cwi), Netherlands - 30/04/2005: Netherlands: Student protests win concession from government
Tanja Niemeier, CWI, Netherlands - 02/04/2005: netherlands: Minister of Social Affairs, De Geus, argues not to exclude
prostitution as suitable employment
Bas De Ruiter, Offensief, cwi Netherlands, Saturday 2 April 2005
2004: - 17/11/2004: Netherlands: Students against racism
Darren, Offensief, cwi Netherlands - 11/11/2004: Netherlands: "Stop the attacks, stop racism!"
Offensief, cwi Netherlands - 08/11/2004: Netherlands: A spate of anti-Muslim bombings and attacks
Niall Mulholland, cwi - 07/11/2004: Netherlands: Widespread shock at killing of controversial film director
Niall Mulholland, cwi, Friday 5 November 2004 - 02/11/2004: Netherlands: Austerity measures lead to soup kitchens
Johann Kwisthout, Socialist Party (SP) Councillor, and Offensief (CWI)
member - 04/10/2004: Netherlands: Over 250,000 say no cuts!
Anita de Waal and Ron Blom - 28/09/2004: Netherlands: After Rotterdam, Amsterdam strikes
Ron Blom, ABVA-KABO-lid (public sector union), and Offensief (cwi
Netherlands) - 21/09/2004: Netherlands: Strike shuts down world’s biggest port
Ron Blom, ABVA-KABO (public sector union) and Offensief (cwi Netherlands) - 16/07/2004: Netherlands: Successful first meeting of ‘Offensief Against Racism’
Patrick Zoomermeijer, Offensief (Dutch section of the CWI) - 29/06/2004: Netherlands: Enough is enough!
Barbara Veger, Offensief, Rotterdam - 16/06/2004: Netherlands: Workers demonstrate against ’Enemies of the working class’
Niall Mulholland, CWI - 30/05/2004: Netherlands: Dockworkers force union to take strike action against
government cuts
Offensief, cwi Netherlands - 13/04/2004: Netherlands: 15,000 demonstrate expulsion of refugees
Ron Blom, Offensief, Netherlands - 23/02/2004: Netherlands: Kick out the government not the refugees
Ron Blom, Netherlands - 18/02/2004: Netherlands: Dutch parliament votes to deport 26,000 refugees
Niall Mulholland, CWI
2003: - 09/12/2003: Netherlands: First round victory against community centre cuts
Patrick Zoomermeijer, Amsterdam - 02/12/2003: Netherlands: Colin Powell visit met by noisy protests
Ron Blom, Offensief, Netherlands and Geert Cool, LSP, Belgium - 01/10/2003: Netherlands: Police attack European dockers’ protest in Rotterdam.
Also report from Antwerp.
Ronald, Offensief, Rotterdam - 25/09/2003: Netherlands: Large Amsterdam demonstration opposes cuts
Ron Blom, Offensiev, Amsterdam - 28/04/2003: Netherlands: Netherlands Another failure to create a stable government
Pieter Brans, Offensief, Amsterdam - 29/01/2003: Netherlands: Dutch general elections - a lost opportunity for the
Socialist Party
By Offensief members (Dutch section of the CWI), 29 January 2003
2002: - 22/10/2002: Netherlands: Right wing coalition government falls
Patrick Zoomermeijer, Amsterdam, 22 October 2002, Offensief - 20/09/2002: Netherlands: Thousands rally against austerity plans of new right-wing
government
Ron Blom, 20 September 2002 - 15/08/2002: Netherlands: New coalition government faces instability and infighting
Ron Blom, Amsterdam, - 03/06/2002: Netherlands: Elections - Abrupt awakening
Pieter Brans,Amsterdam - 17/05/2002: Netherlands: Purple government thrashed - Dutch SP gains
Secretariat Offensief, CWI - Netherlands - 07/05/2002: Netherlands: Extreme right Dutch politician, Pim Fortuyn, shot dead
Patrick Zoomermeijer, Offensief - CWI Netherlands. - 17/04/2002: Netherlands: Government resigns
Patrick Zoomermeijer, Offensief (CWI Netherlands).
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