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Turkey
“Warlike violence” to crush the movement

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”

  Turkey

 Turkey
Stop the repression

19/06/2013: Socialist MEP condemns police violence during Turkey/ EU trade relations session

  Turkey, Video

Brazil
Protest spreading

18/06/2013: Well over 250,000 in approximately 20 cities took to the streets

  Brazil

Hong Kong
1,000 demonstrators defend whistleblower Snowden

18/06/2013: Revelations by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden have exposed US hypocrisy over cyber-spying

  Hong Kong

G8 summit
No to G8 austerity

17/06/2013: End the rule of big business, poverty and war

  Anti-globalisation

Brazil
Mass struggles resurface as weight of crisis is felt

16/06/2013: Mass demonstrations against the increase of bus fares in all major cities

  Brazil

Pakistan / Sindh province
Stop victimization and union busting of women health workers

15/06/2013: “We will defend our rights and continue fighting”.

  Pakistan

 India
Agitation of Workers at Pune

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.

  India, Solidarity

 Turkey
End police brutality - defend anti-government protesters

13/06/2013: MEP Paul Murphy criticises EU foreign policy representative, Catherine Ashton, over calls for ’restraint on all sides’

  Turkey, Video

Greece
Government shuts down state broadcaster ERT

12/06/2013: Unions must organise general strike action now!

  Greece

 Video
Joe Higgins questions Irish Prime Minister about G8 summit

12/06/2013: Socialist MP slams huge security operation and anti-working class record of world leaders

  Video

Turkey
“Vandals” continue to fight back

11/06/2013: Erdogan seeks trial of strength with mass protests

  Turkey

 G8
Join the protest!

11/06/2013: Oppose the summit of capitalist leaders, argues Paul Murphy in the European Parliament

  Anti-globalisation, Video

 Turkey
International solidarity protests

11/06/2013: Report from London, with CWI comment on the developments in Turkey

  Turkey, Video

Obituary
Comrade Kemelo Ernest Mokgalagadi

11/06/2013: A genuine working class fighter and a revolutionary socialist

  Obituary, South Africa

Turkey
Solidarity is vital to show protesters the world is watching

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”.

  Turkey

Hong Kong
Tiananmen vigil sends a warning to China’s new leaders

08/06/2013: 24th anniversary of Beijing’s crackdown draws 150,000 protestors

  China, Hong Kong

Syria
Conflict threatens to spread across the Middle East

08/06/2013: Urgent need for independent working class socialist organisations

  Syria

Turkey
Solidarity with the mass protests

08/06/2013: Paul Murphy to visit heart of Turkish Protests

  Turkey

France
Fatal fascist violence in Paris

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.

  France

Germany
Blockupy protests

07/06/2013: Police repression in the belly of the beast

  Germany

G8
MEPs send message of solidarity to anti-G8 protestors

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.

  Anti-globalisation, Ireland North, Ireland Republic

Russia
CWI conference discusses perspectives for Putin’s regime

05/06/2013: Unrest grows over economic and social issues

  Russia

Turkey
Mass movement challenges Erdogan government

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!

  Turkey

Scotland
Thousands attend anti-bedroom tax protest in Glasgow

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.

  Scotland

G8
Armed police and soldiers descend on County Fermanagh

02/06/2013: Secret Services bolster police ahead of G8 Summit in N Ireland

  Anti-globalisation, Ireland North

China / Hong Kong
Remembering 4 June 1989

01/06/2013: Vital lessons for today’s democracy struggle

  China, Hong Kong

Boycotting Israel
The socialist view

31/05/2013: ‘Boycott, divestment and sanctions’- questions and answers about the BDS campaign

  Israel / Palestine

Britain
TUSC and the road to a new workers’ party

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.

  Britain, New workers' parties

 Europe
Austerity and unemployment across the continent

29/05/2013: EU council meeting: Another attempt to put the burden of the capitalist crisis on the shoulders of youth and working people

  Europe, Video

Sweden
The reality of Swedish neo-liberalism

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’

  Sweden

Environment
Brazil’s forests

28/05/2013: Profits from destruction

  Brazil, Environment

Sri Lanka
Working class beginning to move forward

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.

  Sri Lanka

Sweden
Riots in Stockholm working-class suburbs

24/05/2013: Neo-liberalism and police violence have created social time-bomb

  Sweden

30 years ago
Liverpool - a city that dared to fight

24/05/2013: Interview on Militant, the Labour Party and the struggle of the socialist led council 1983-87 in Liverpool

  Britain, History

Environment

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Environment: Brazil’s forests

28/05/2013, Profits from destruction
Ben Robinson, Socialist Party (CWI England and Wales)

Australia: Labour approves WA’s first uranium mine

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.
Socialist Party (CWI Australia) reporters Perth

US: Fight the Washington State Coal Terminal!

21/03/2013, Fight Global Warming!
Jess Spear, Socialist Alternative (CWI supporters in the US)

Environment: Energy starvation and climate change

18/03/2013, Alternative energy and socialist planning needed
Geoff Jones, first published in the Socialist, paper of the Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)

US: Biggest environmental protest in US history

04/03/2013, What Now? — Reflections from a DC Protester
Sebastian Kugler, CWI, first published on socialistalternative.org

Environment: Doha climate talks dead-end

01/02/2013, The latest UN-sponsored climate talks in Doha in December ended in total failure
Pete Dickenson, Socialist Partuy (CWI in England & Wales)

Book review: Planning for the Planet

25/01/2013, Pete Dickenson counterposes the alternative of a socialist programme for the environment to this capitalist disaster.
Paul Moorhouse, Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)

Climate Change: Arctic sea ice drops to a new record low

28/12/2012, Capitalism Has Failed the Environment
Jess Spear, Socialist Alternative (CWI supporters in the US)

Hurricane Sandy devastation: An unnatural disaster

04/12/2012, Sandy was the largest Atlantic hurricane on record. It left a trail of destruction from the Caribbean and across the Eastern seaboard of the United States all the way to Canada.
Tom Crean, Socialist Alternative (CWI supporters in the US), New York City, first published in "Socialism Today", magazine of the Socialist Party (CWI England and Wales)

Environment: The biofuels diversion

23/09/2012, Biofuels appear not to be green sources of energy, but generate social problems
Pete Dickenson, first published in Socialism Today, magazine of the Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)

India: Stop Kudankulam Nuclear Plant

12/09/2012, Stop the police terror
Press statement by New Socialist Alternative (CWI India) and other organisations

Environment: 2012 earth summit

03/07/2012, Why Rio+20 will cut no ice
Pete Mason, Socialist Party (CWI England and Wales)

Global warming: Needed: a socialist plan for the environment

01/06/2012, To avoid the worst effects of climate change, decisive action needs to be taken now, but it’s not going to come from the capitalists or their politicians.
Pete Dickenson

Climate change: Profit hungry ’Big Oil’ backs deniers

27/05/2012, Stop big business wrecking the environment
Pete Mason, Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)

Denmark: Police found guilty of violating European Convention on Human Rights

22/04/2012, Climate activists and socialists win court battle over police brutality at 2009 climate change summit
Reporters from ‘Offensiv’ (Weekly paper of Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna, CWI Sweden)

World warming: Even faster than thought

02/04/2012, Socialist plan needed
The Socialist, paper of the Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)

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