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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
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
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|  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
By Nicola Crawford and Jim McFarlane, Socialist Party Scotland (CWI
Scotland)
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|  04/04/2013, Anti-bedroom tax protests attracted thousands of people in Glasgow and
Edinburgh last weekend – reflecting the mass opposition to the hated
ConDem policy.
Click here
to read the report
of the Socialist Party Scotland (CWI Scotland)
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|  20/02/2013, Opportunities ahead in period of mass anger against austerity
Matt Dobson and Wayne Scott, Socialist Party Scotland (CWI)
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|  22/01/2013, When workers fought the bosses to a standstill
Jim McFarlane, Socialist Party Scotland (CWI)
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|  23/10/2012, Young people demand real job creation and an end to attacks on public
services
Matt Dobson and David Mundt, Youth Fight for Jobs Scotland
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|  30/09/2012, Scottish Labour leader, Johann Lamont, has thrown the party into a
crisis following her recent speech that called for an end to the
“something for nothing culture” in Scotland.
Socialist Party Scotland (CWI Scotland)
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|  28/09/2012, Support for independence for Scotland, ahead of a referdum, is still
based on a sizeable minority. However, it is growing and is gaining
ground amongst radicalised sections of society feeling the brunt of
austerity cuts.
Matt Dobson and Ryan Stuart, Socialist Party Scotland (CWI Scotland)
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|  01/06/2012, Tommy Sheridan conviction must be overturned
Philip Stott, Socialist Party Scotland
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|  30/05/2012, The Yes Scotland pro-independence campaign was launched mainly by the
Scottish National Party, backed by big business, on Friday 25th May in
Edinburgh.
Philip Stott, Socialist
Party Scotland (CWI Scotland)
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|  20/01/2012, Scottish National Party’s version of indepdendence a nightmare for
workers
Philip Stott, Socialist Party Scotland (CWI in Scotland)
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|  02/12/2011, “We’ve had enough”
Socialist Party Scotland (CWI Scotland) members
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|  04/10/2011, “People First” demonstration in Glasgow on 1st October
Socialist Party Scotland members (CWI in Scotland)
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|  29/06/2011, ‘Downfall – The Tommy Sheridan Story’ by Alan McCombes
Book review by Philip Stott, from July/August 2011 issue of Socialism
Today (journal of the Socialist Party – CWI in England and Wales)
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|  10/05/2011, But majority government of savage cuts will meet working class resistance
Philip Stott, Socialist Party Scotland (CWI), Dundee
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Further articles on 'Scotland':2010: 2009: - 16/11/2009: Scotland: New Labour holds Glasgow seat in lowest ever by-election
turnout
Philip Stott, International Socialists (CWI Scotland) - 02/11/2009: Scotland: Scottish National Party (SNP) tables ‘independence’ referendum
bill
Philip Stott, International Socialists (CWI in Scotland) - 21/10/2009: Scotland: Glasgow North East by-election
Ray Gunnion, International Socialists (CWI in Scotland) - 10/08/2009: Scotland: Defend Tommy and Gail Sheridan!
Philip Stott, International Socialists (CWI in Scotland) - 28/07/2009: Scotland: 20,000 people march in Kilmarnock to defend ‘Johnnie Walker’
900 jobs
Leah Ganley, Youth Fight For Jobs, Scotland - 10/04/2009: Scotland: Parents occupy school buildings in Glasgow to stop closures
Eric Stevenson, CWI, Glasgow - 02/04/2009: Scotland: 20th anniversary of introduction of Poll Tax
Articles by Ronnie Stevenson and Tommy Sheridan - 27/03/2009: Scotland: Dundee Prisme occupation: Workers remain defiant
Philip Stott, International Socialists (CWi in Scotland) - 27/03/2009: Scotland: International Socialists conference a big step forward
International Socialists (CWI in Scotland) - 09/03/2009: Scotland: Prisme occupation continues
International Socialists, CWI in Scotland - 06/03/2009: Scotland: Prisme workers occupation – Day 2
International Socialists (CWI in Scotland) - 12/02/2009: Scotland: Vendetta continues against socialist fighter
Philip Stott, International Socialists (CWI in Soctland)
2008: - 28/07/2008: Scotland: New Labour suffer electoral disaster in Glasgow East
Philip Stott, CWI Scotland - 09/06/2008: Scotland: Rally boosts campaign to defend Tommy Sheridan
Jim McFarlane, International Socialists, CWI Scotland. - 09/05/2008: Scotland: Scottish Labour’s U-turn on independence deepens crisis for
Brown
Philip Stott, International Socialists, cwi Scotland. - 29/04/2008: Scotland: The SNP government, one year in power
Philip Stott, International Socialists, CWI Scotland - 29/04/2008: Scotland: Grangemouth oil strike
Ian Leech and Phillip Stott, International Solidarity, CWI Scotland - 20/02/2008: Scotland: Stop the witch-hunt - Defend the ‘Sheridan 7’
Philip Stott, CWI Scotland - 24/01/2008: Scotland: Defend Tommy Sheridan
Philip Stott, International Socialists, cwi Scotland, Thursday 24
January 2008
2007: - 19/12/2007: Defend Tommy Sheridan: End Murdoch’s witch-hunt
Philip Stott, International Socialists, cwi Scotland - 11/12/2007: Scotland: End Murdoch’s Vendetta
Philip Stott, International Socialists, Scotland - 19/09/2007: Scotland: Launch of The Socialist newspaper
Editorial from The Socialist (newspaper of the International Socialists
– CWI in Scotland) - 13/08/2007: Scotland: Glasgow Social Care Workers win dispute
Brian Smith, Unison secretary Glasgow Social Work Services (personal
capacity) and member of International Socialists (cwi Scotland), Monday
13 August 2007. - 22/05/2007: Scotland: SNP in power - populism and cuts
Phillip Stott, International Socialists, (CWI, Scotland), Dundee - 06/05/2007: Scotland: Labour rocked as Scottish Nationalist Party win
Phillip Stott, International Socialists (CWI Scotland), Dundee, Scotland - 01/05/2007: Scotland: Packed rally for Solidarity in run up to election
Tom Penman, International Socialists (CWI Scotland ) - 26/04/2007: Scotland: Scottish Parliament election - support for Labour falling
Jim McFarlane, International Socialists, Dundee - 13/03/2007: Scotland: Solidarity conference prepares fighting campaign for May
elections
Philip Stott, International Socialists, Dundee, Scotland - 06/02/2007: Scotland: The end of the union?
Phillip Stott, cwi, Scotland
2006: - 07/11/2006: Scotland: Solidarity conference agrees to build a socialist party
Philip Stott, Dundee Solidarity and International Socialists (CWI) - 06/10/2006: Scotland: Murdoch’s "democracy in Scotland"
Roy Johnson, Socialist Party England and Wales RMT member, Friday 6
October 2006 - 03/10/2006: Scotland: News of the World offensive against Tommy Sheridan
Philip Stott, International Socialists, CWI Scotland - 05/09/2006: Scotland: Solidarity - Scotland’s Socialist Movement launched
International Socialists, CWI Scotland, Tuesday 5 September 2006 - 05/09/2006: Scotland: Build a class-based socialist party
International Socialists, CWI Scotland, Tuesday 5 September 2006. - 21/08/2006: scotland: Build a new party for socialism in Scotland
International Socialists, cwi Scotland - 10/03/2006: Scotland: Scottish Socialist Party conference
Philip Stott, International Socialists, Dundee - 20/02/2006: Scotland: New Labour crushed in Dunfermline by-election
Philip Stott, International Socialists (CWI Scotland), Dundee
2005: - 10/10/2005: Scotland: Scottish by-elections
Phillip Stott and Ronnie Stevenson, International Socialists, (CWI)
Scotland - 05/09/2005: Scotland: After Scotland’s largest ever protest G8 leaders…
Philip Stott, International Socialists (CWI in Scotland) - 18/08/2005: Scotland: SSP MSPs & staff victimised by Scottish parliament
socialistworld.net - 23/06/2005: scotland: trade unionists occupy Pakistani Consulate in Glasgow
Philip Stott, International Socialists (CWI), Glasgow, Thursday 23 June
2005 - 13/06/2005: Scotland: The 2005 General Election and the Scottish Socialist Party
International Socialists, Scotland - 06/05/2005: Scotland: Anti-New Labour vote reflects anger against war
Philip Stott, International Socialists, Dundee - 28/04/2005: Scotland: Voters far to the left of big parties
Philip Stott, Dundee, International Socialists - 01/04/2005: Scotland: SNP plan tax cuts for big business
Philip Stott, International Socialists, Scotland - 30/03/2005: Scotland: Socialist challenge to big business parties
Sinead Daly, Scotland, International Socialists - 11/03/2005: Scotland: Sri Lankan socialist receives enthusiastic welcome
Philip Stott, cwi, Dundee - 28/02/2005: Scotland: SSP conference report
Philip Stott of International Socialists (cwi Scotland) - 17/02/2005: Scotland: Political questioning at SSP conference
Philip Stott, International Socialists (CWI Scotland), Thursday 17
February 2005. - 10/02/2005: Scotland: Clear socialist alternative needed
Philip Stott, International Socialists, cwi Scotland
2004: 2003: - 09/09/2003: Scotland and the National Question: Devolution disappoints
Philip Stott, International Socialists, CWI Scotland. - 02/09/2003: Scotland: Nursery nurses’ action to end poverty pay
Alison Hughes, Nursery nurse and UNISON shop steward, Scotland - 22/08/2003: Scotland: Interview with John McAllion
- 17/08/2003: Scotland: Scottish National Party in crisis
Philip Stott, Scotland - 18/05/2003: Scotland: After the Scottish elections - How is socialism to be wone?
Philip Stott, International Socialists, CWI Scotland - 17/05/2003: Scotland: Socialist success in Scotland
Philip Stott, International Socialists, CWI Scotland - 20/04/2003: Scotland: Scottish elections
Interational Socialists, CWI in Scotland - 07/03/2003: Scotland: Socialists debate the way forward
Philip Stott, CWI Scotland - 04/03/2003: Scotland: SSP looks to make electoral gains
Philip Stott, CWI Scotland - 29/01/2003: Scotland: No change to poverty under New Labour
Sinead Daly, Scotland, International Socialists (CWI Scotland) - 27/01/2003: Scotland: Big opportunities for socialists in May poll
Philip Stott - 23/01/2003: Scotland: Fire service workers speak out
Ray Gunion, Motherwell, International Socialists (CWI Scotland). - 22/01/2003: Scotland: Left Labour MSP speaks against war
From International Socialist, paper of the CWI in Scotland
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