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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.
23/05/2013: MEP demands immediate release of Housing Campaigners - solidarity still
needed
23/05/2013: Statement on Woolwich killing
23/05/2013: In the «most developped country for women in the Arab world», the
struggle for women rights remains more relevant than ever
23/05/2013: After Lafontaine’s proposal to get rid of the Euro – what should the
left say?
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.
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|  29/01/2012, Whole continent on the verge of major social convulsions and political
shocks
CWI
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|  24/10/2011, Malaysian economy enters difficult period
Raviechandren, CWI Malaysia
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|  17/07/2011, Strike wave driven by one of the world’s highest inflation rates
chinaworker.info
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|  27/12/2010, "Social, economic and political crises are developing throughout Asia.
They underline the vital importance of the CWI’s ideas and programme and
the urgent task of developing the cadres for building future mass
revolutionary parties."
Document No. 2, CWI World Congress
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|  08/03/2010, 8 March should be start of massive campaign for an inclusive legal
minimum wage
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| 24/12/2009, Masses need socialist alternative to end poverty, wars and oppression
Report from Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI) meeting, Belgium |
| 28/08/2007, "Nothing - there’s nothing to go back to..."
Cillian Gillespie, Socialist Party, cwi Ireland |
| 27/12/2005, Worsening misery for tsunami people. A socialist world more necessary
than ever
Clare Doyle, cwi |
| 30/06/2005, The people in Sri Lanka who lost everything in the tsunami disaster of
26 December are still left with nothing.
Siritunga Jayasuriya, Secretary of the United Socialist Party (CWI, Sri
Lanka) |
| 03/05/2005, Sri Lanka and Japan are both reeling from horrific public transport
disasters, in each case resulting from the privatisation policies of
their governments and the blind chase for profits.
Laurence Coates, cwi, Colombo. |
| 03/02/2005, While Aceh on the northern edge of Sumatra has registered nearly two
thirds of the total death toll from the Asian tsunami, the Acehnese so
far have received only 30 per cent of UN food deliveries.
Arne Johansson, Offensiv, cwi Sweden |
| 31/01/2005, "The grotesque picture of devastation is slowly emerging and haunting
us. The real brunt of the tsunami was taken by the eastern part of the
island. The principal town, Pottuvil, has seen the worst disaster in its
living memory".
Siritunga Jayasuriya, General Secretary United Socialist Party (cwi, Sri
Lanka) and Jagadish Chandra, Socialist Alternative (cwi, India). |
| 25/01/2005, One month after the tsunami disaster struck the coasts of the Indian
Ocean the costs are still being counted.
Clare Doyle, International Secretariat, CWI |
| 25/01/2005, With the help of the thousands of donations that have been made in the
last four weeks to the Campaign Sri Lanka, our comrades in the country
second worst hit in the region have picked themselves up and started out
on the campaigning road once more.
socialistworld.net |
| 20/01/2005, Last Friday, Teungku Malik Mahmood, was interviewed by Offensiv in its
Stockholm office. He is in exile but regarded by the Aceh Freedom
Movement (Gam) as the rightful prime minister of the State of Aceh. He
pointed out the wide gap between the words and deeds of the Indonesian
government.
Arne Johansson, Offensiv (cwi’s paper in Sweden) |
Further articles on 'Asia':- 19/01/2005: Tsunami warnings: Capitalist governments guilty
Jon Dale, Socialist Party, England and Wales, cwi - 19/01/2005: Sri Lanka: Life after tsunami
Siritunga Jayasuriya, General Secretary, United Socialist Party (cwi,
Sri Lanka) - 17/01/2005: Tsunami disaster: Will the West’s aid ever arrive?
The Socialist - 15/01/2005: cwi Tsunami Appeal: Marvellous show of solidarity
socialistworld.net - 14/01/2005: Indonesia: Aceh and the tsunami - Both the military and corruption
sabotage relief work
Arne Johansson Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (cwi Sweden) - 14/01/2005: Tsunami appeal: International solidarity - German school student raises
funds for cwi appeal
Gina, Hamburg student and CWI member - 12/01/2005: Indian ocean disaster: Capitalism condemned; socialism more necessary
than ever
cwi statement - 11/01/2005: Indian ocean disaster: Aftermath of Tsunami in Sri Lanka
Senan, cwi member from Jaffna - 09/01/2005: Indian ocean tsunami: Cancel all debts now
Per Olsson, Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (cwi Sweden). - 06/01/2005: Indian Ocean tsunami: Capitalist misers posture on tsunami aid
socialistworld.net - 04/01/2005: Indian Ocean tsunami: India - Tsunami kills thousands of ‘benami’ or
people without names
Jagadish Chandra, New Socialist Alternative (cwi-India) - 03/01/2005: Indian Ocean tsunami: The Australian response to the Tsunami disaster
Stephen Jolly, Socialist Party councillor Yarra, Melbourne, Australia
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