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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
28/04/2013: "Still Counting the Dead: Survivors of Sri Lanka’s hidden war" by
Frances Harrison
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|  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.
USP(CWI, Sri Lanka)
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|  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.
Press statement by Segun Sango, general secretary DSM (CWI Nigeria)
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|  03/05/2013, Progressive Workers Federation (PWF), TURCP and SMP organised and
intervened in the May Day activities across the country
Syed Fazal Abass Shah, secretary general PWF, Pakistan
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|  02/05/2013, ‘Defend pensions! Stop corruption!’
Chris Dite in Taipei, chinaworker.info
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|  02/05/2013, Photos of May Day demonstration in Sindh
SMP (CWI Pakistan), Sindh
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| 02/05/2013, DSM comrades arrested and detained
Press statement by Segun Sango, general secretary DSM
(CWI Nigeria) |
|  01/05/2013, The CWI sends revolutionary greetings and solidarity to workers, young
people and all those exploited by capitalism.
CWI
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|  12/05/2012, Lively and political CWI contingent attracts variety of activists
Denis D., CWI, Moscow
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|  12/05/2012, Meeting discusses involvement in Afghanistan
Reporters from Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (CWI Sweden)
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|  10/05/2012, May Day should have offered opportunity for workers to pose their
demands and agitation before the government
Peluola Adewale, DSM (CWI Nigeria)
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|  09/05/2012, Socialist organisations march to joint rally
Report from United Socialist Party (CWI Sri Lanka)
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|  05/05/2012, Socialist Action (CWI) campaigning against the capitalist 1% and against
racism
Dikang, Socialist Action in Hong Kong
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|  04/05/2012, Fotos of impressive march
Socialist Movement Pakistan (CWI Pakistan)
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|  03/05/2012, For a workers’ programme that puts forward the socialist alternative
Tamir Mahdi, CWI Lebanon
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Further articles on 'May Day':2011: 2010: 2009: 2008: 2007: 2006: - 09/05/2006: May Day 2006: Public sector workers celebrate Mayday.
Toqueer Golani, CWI Kashmir, Kotli, POK - 07/05/2006: May Day 2006: Trade Union Rights Campaign (TURCP) organises activities
across Pakistan
TURCP reporters, Pakistan - 05/05/2006: Austria: May Day with the Trade Union Council
Johnny Evers, SLP, Vienna, Austria - 05/05/2006: May day 2006: Socialists defy ban on demos in Sri Lanka
- 04/05/2006: May Day 2006: Hong Kong demo sees launch of CWI Chinese paper
Watson Yu, CWI Hong Kong - 04/05/2006: May Day 2006: Historic march to Kuala Lumpur City Centre completed
despite police repression
socialistworld.net - 04/05/2006: May Day 2006: workers rescue DSM members from police in Nigeria
Democratic Socialist Movement reporters, Lagos, Nigeria - 04/05/2006: May day 2006: Socialists defy ban on demos in Sri Lanka
Siritunga Jayasuriya, Secretary United Socialist Party, Colombo, Sri
Lanka - 04/05/2006: May Day 2006: Swedish demonstrations not indicative of opposition to
government attacks
Ulrika Waaranperä, Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna, Stockholm - 04/05/2006: may day 2006: immigrants rights protest in Seattle
Bryan Watson, Socialist Alternative (CWI), Seattle, Thursday 4 May 2006. - 04/05/2006: May Day 2006: Hundreds of thousands march in Caracas
Celso Calfullan, Caracas, Venezuela - 02/05/2006: US: Thousands attend Boston May Day rally
Hank Gonzalez and Bryan Koulouris, Socialist Alternative (CWI), Boson, US
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