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Greece
Support for government in free fall

08/02/2012: General strike on 7 February opposes “mediaeval labour conditions!"

  Greece

Syria
Anti-regime protests facing ferocious response

08/02/2012: No trust in Arab League and imperialist powers

  Syria

Kazakhstan
Nazarbayev in Berlin

08/02/2012: A big protest rally in freezing temperatures greeted the Kazakhstan president as he attended a meeting to strengthen relations with the German government and big business.

  Kazakhstan

 Ireland
Joe Higgins addresses packed anti-household tax meeting

04/02/2012: Joe Higgins argues in Cork, 26 January, to resist the household tax: "Yes, we have a choice!"

  Ireland North, Video

Belgium
January 30 General Strike

03/02/2012: A strike corresponding to the level of anger over austerity programme

  Belgium

EU summit
No capitalist solutions to the spiralling eurozone crisis

03/02/2012: The capitalist classes of Europe are all adopting the same policy of attempting to make the working class pay for the capitalist economic crisis.

  Europe

 Nigeria
Story of the great general strike

02/02/2012: A socialist view on recent showdown between government and people

  Nigeria, Video

Italy
Dozens of No TAV activists arrested

01/02/2012: The repression will not stop the movement!

  Italy

Socialism
Answering Common Questions

31/01/2012: Frequently asked questions

Kazakhstan
Free Vadim Kuramshin!

31/01/2012: Urgent solidarity needed

  Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan
‘Labour Start’ editor makes outrageous claims against oil workers and CWI

31/01/2012: Worldwide solidarity campaign means the Kazakhstan regime can no longer deny 16 December massacre

  Kazakhstan

Tunisia
“The mass of people continue to struggle”

31/01/2012: Interview with two Tunisian socialists, one year after the fall of Ben Ali

  Tunisia

US
For an independent Left challenge in Presidential elections

30/01/2012: Fight Against Corporate Politics

  US

 US
Capitalist crisis and the occupy movement

30/01/2012: Bryan Koulouris explains how the USA is being transformed by the occupy movements which have arisen in anger at the growing inequality between the 1% and the 99% in the United States

  US, Video

Climate change
Dithering in Durban

30/01/2012: Once again, a United Nations-sponsored climate change conference has completely failed to address the issue of global warming.

  Environment

Cyprus
Partial general strike paralyses public sector

29/01/2012: December’s industrial action against austerity just the beginning of the fight-back!

  Cyprus

Asia
Feeling the coming storm

29/01/2012: Whole continent on the verge of major social convulsions and political shocks

  Asia, CWI Comment And Analysis

Latin America
No escape from world crisis

28/01/2012: The illusory appearance of a peculiar isolation from the international picture of stagnation, recession and economic crisis is fragile - a new period of turbulent class conflict lays ahead

  CWI Comment And Analysis, Latin America

China
“I was arrested by China’s Secret Police”.

27/01/2012: CWI’s Zhang Shujie speaks out at hearing in Sweden’s parliament

  China

Egypt
Huge crowds in Tahrir Square mark revolution anniversary

26/01/2012: Masses in Cairo and other cities demand end to military rule

  Egypt

China
‘Long Hair’ to attend Stockholm hearing on state repression

26/01/2012: LSD legislator from Hong Kong to speak in support of young socialist Zhang Shujie, forced to flee China

  China

 CWI International Meeting
Illusion of stability in Latin America

25/01/2012: Contradictions and new struggles define situation in region

  CWI, Latin America

Brazil
In defence of Pinheirinho inhabitants!

25/01/2012: 3 year old child killed in fatal repression

  Brazil

Kazakhstan
New wave of arrests against opposition

25/01/2012: Release Vadim Kuramshin and all those arrested – End harassment of opposition activists!

  Kazakhstan

 Kazakhstan
After the Zhanaozen clampdown

25/01/2012: 16 December underlined the need for the workers’ movement to link economic demands to the struggle to bring down the regime

  Kazakhstan, Video

USA
Mobilize to Support Longshore Workers

24/01/2012: Key Battle for the Labour and Occupy Movements

  US

 CWI International Meeting
World capitalism in crisis

22/01/2012: As world economy worsens, inter-imperialist relations intensify

  CWI, CWI Comment And Analysis

Britain
Stephen Lawrence murder – The untold story

21/01/2012: How socialists and the local community fought back against racism and the BNP

  Britain

Scotland
ConDem government blunders independence referendum

20/01/2012: Scottish National Party’s version of indepdendence a nightmare for workers

  Scotland

Egypt
A year of revolution and counter-revolution

18/01/2012: As economic crisis worsens, new class conflicts loom

  Egypt

Nigeria
Widespread disapointment and anger as labour suspends strike

17/01/2012: Struggle forces Jonathan back a bit, but could have won far more with a more resolute leadership - We Condemn Repression by Police and Army

  Nigeria

Turkey

Turkey / Kurdistan: Erdoğan escalates attacks on PKK

26/08/2011, Attempts to form a new left umbrella party
Nihat Boyraz, SAV (CWI Germany), and Jan Kowalski, CWI

Turkey: 12 September 2010 - 30th anniversary of the military coup

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)

Referendum in Turkey: Erdoğan tries to change the balance of forces

09/09/2010, CHP offers no alternative
CWI

Turkey: 119 UPS workers sacked - solidarity needed!

10/07/2010, Protest against victimisation of trade unionists!
Interview with Erol S, sacked UPS worker

Turkey: Joe Higgins MEP questions EU Commission on trade agreement with Turkey

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

Turkey: Hundreds of thousands on Taksim Square on Mayday

02/05/2010, Turkish and Kurdish workers and youth send a signal of their strength
CWI reporters in Istanbul

Turkey: End the persecution of Tekel workers - solidarity with Okan Duman

19/04/2010, Letter of protest
Joe Higgins, MEP

Turkey: Tekel workers brutally attacked by police

01/04/2010,
CWI Reporters

Turkey: TEKEL struggle shows – fighting back is necessary

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

Turkey: Court ruling gives hope to Tekel workers

02/03/2010, Now link up all workers’ struggles - for a general strike!
Michael Gehmacher, Ankara, Turkey

Turkey: Tekel workers’ "Day of Action"

20/02/2010, To win the Turkish tobacco workers’ struggle, a broader general strike is necessary
CWI

Turkey: 63rd day of Tekel struggle - “the weather is changing”

15/02/2010, The tireless struggle of the Tekel workers in Ankara continues but time is growing short.
CWI reporter in Ankara

Turkey: Tekel struggle – “a school of brotherhood”

11/02/2010, Interview with Diyarbakir Tekel workers
CWI reporters in Ankara

Turkey: Tekel - union leaders must match the militancy of the workers!

10/02/2010, Attempts by the government to divide the struggle must be answered by the entire workers’ movement
CWI reporters in Ankara

Turkey: Tekel workers - “We have to continue the struggle”

09/02/2010, Interview with Fadime, Tekel worker on hunger strike
CWI reporters in Ankara

Turkey: Tekel workers demand - “Work - bread - freedom!”

08/02/2010, 57-day struggle to defend jobs
CWI reporters in Ankara, Turkey

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