  latest news
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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|  15/02/2013, Hundreds-strong meeting hears speeches from visiting CWI members
By Sean Figg, Johannesburg
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|  31/01/2013, Statement on the retrenchment threats by Anglo America n Platinum and
Harmony Gold
Weizmann Hamilton, DSM (CWI South Africa)
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|  27/10/2012, Opulence for robber capitalist elite but no boom for working masses
Peluola Adewale, Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI in Nigeria)
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|  18/10/2012, The class struggle in South Africa is far sharper than in many
countries. Socialist consciousness is far higher among the powerful,
industrial working class.
Alec Thraves, Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales). Alec has just
returned from a visit to South Africa.
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|  06/10/2012, The "Joint Strike Coordinating Committee" of all mines on strike in
Rustenburg calls for a march next Saturday to confront the government.
It argues for a general strike for a national living wage of R12,500
(US-$ 1400).
Socialistworld.net
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|  14/09/2012, Press reports on impact of Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI)
socialistworld.net
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|  07/09/2012, CWI solidarity actions continue as struggle rumbles on
Socialistworld.net
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|  22/08/2012, “This is not our government”
Liv Shange, Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI in South Africa)
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|  19/07/2012, Arab revolutions, Sri Lanka, Algeria, Brazil…lessons from history and
today’s struggles
Cillian Gillespie, Socialist Party (CWI Ireland)
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|  25/04/2012, Despite the enormous agricultural and mineral resources of the country,
the various capitalist political elites could neither resolve the
economic nor nationality problem.
Kola Ibrahim, DSM (CWI Nigeria)
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|  14/03/2012, 200,000 march across South Africa
Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI in South Africa) Reporters
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|  09/01/2012, For a serious fight against President’s New Year "gift". No rotten
compromise!
Article from special edition of Socialist Democracy, paper of the
Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI in Nigeria)
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|  03/10/2011, Famine - another weapon of mass destruction
Cedric Gerome, CWI
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|  02/06/2011, Across the Middle East and North Africa the revolutions and protests
that began after Mohamed Bouazizi’s suicide in protest at poverty and
oppression in Tunisia have, in many countries, reached turning points.
Robert Bechert, CWI
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