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22/05/2013: Protests needed via embassies
22/05/2013: How Ireland is used as a tax haven by multinational corporations while
the government is preparing to steal the property tax from people’s
wages, social welfare and pensions
22/05/2013: Union-agreed rates could bring Amazon workers 9000 euros more a year
21/05/2013: Anti-racist campaign needed against corrupt ruling elites and capitalism
21/05/2013: An expressway to attacks on democratic rights! For democratic mass
working peoples’ defence committees!
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.
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
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|  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.
Festus Okay, Sosyalist Alternatif (CWI Turkey)
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|  11/06/2012, Workers fighting back request solidarity and support
Report from Day-Mer (Turkish & Kurdish Community Centre)
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|  30/03/2012, Regressive school reform causes uproar
Donald O’Neill, CWI, Istanbul
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|  30/03/2012, Turkey’s governing ’Justice and Development Party’ (AKP) is presented as
a model of “successful democracy” by US Secretary of State Hillary
Clinton. In fact, it is a brutal model of repression against Kurdish and
left activists and is presented as way of dealing with the democratic
aspirations of the Arab and North African spring.
Kai Stein, CWI
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|  26/08/2011, Attempts to form a new left umbrella party
Nihat Boyraz, SAV (CWI Germany),
and Jan Kowalski, CWI
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|  09/09/2010, For the Turkish and Kurdish working class and the left, September 12 is
above all a day of remembrance of one of the heaviest blows against the
workers in recent history.
Nelli Tügel, SAV (CWI in Germany)
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|  09/09/2010, CHP offers no alternative
CWI
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|  10/07/2010, Protest against victimisation of trade unionists!
Interview with Erol S, sacked UPS worker
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|  10/06/2010, At a meeting of the Committee on International Trade, Joe Higgins MEP
questions the demands of the EU for privatisation and neo-liberalism in
their trade agreements with Turkey. Joe also highlights the ongoing
human rights and workers’ rights abuses in Turkey (01-06-10)
Joe Higgins
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|  02/05/2010, Turkish and Kurdish workers and youth send a signal of their strength
CWI reporters in Istanbul
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|  19/04/2010, Letter of protest
Joe Higgins, MEP
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| 01/04/2010,
CWI Reporters |
|  01/04/2010, On 1 April, TEKEL workers will gather again in Ankara to rebuild their
“tent city” – an opportunity to rebuild the movement
CWI reporters
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|  02/03/2010, Now link up all workers’ struggles - for a general strike!
Michael Gehmacher, Ankara, Turkey
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|  20/02/2010, To win the Turkish tobacco workers’ struggle, a broader general strike
is necessary
CWI
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|  15/02/2010, The tireless struggle of the Tekel workers in Ankara continues but time
is growing short.
CWI reporter in Ankara
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