  latest news
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.
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
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|  01/12/2012, Over 30,000 joined Independence March on 11 November in Warsaw organised
by far-right organisations
Paul Newberry, Alternatywa
Socjalistyczna (CWI Poland)
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|  29/08/2011, A solidarity picket in defense of oppressed oil workers in Kazakhstan
was held near the Consulate of the Republic of Kazakhstan and the
headquarters of the firm ’Oil and Gas Exploration’, in Krakow on August
25.
CWI reporter, Poland
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|  12/11/2010, Over 1,500 anti-fascists took part in an illegal blockade to prevent
Polish fascists from marching in Warsaw on 11 November.
Paul Newbery, CWI Poland
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|  31/08/2010, The celebrations of the 30th anniversary of Solidarity take place
against the background of attacks and an unprecedented media campaign
against today’s trade unions and workers.
CWI Poland
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|  10/08/2010, Last Friday, 6 August, Komorowski (Civic Platform) was sworn in as the
new president in Poland.
Paul Newberry, GPR (CWI Poland)
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|  07/08/2010, 20,000 people marched along the streets of Warsaw on 17 July on what was
Eastern Europe’s largest ever gay rights demonstration.
Paul Newberry, Warsaw
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| 03/11/2009, In August 1980, Poland’s Stalinist regime was rocked by a massive strike
wave which swept across the country.
Paul Newberry, Group for a Workers’ Party (CWI in Poland) |
| 14/09/2009, “We will fight on”
Interview conducted by Kacper Pluta, Group for a Workers’ Party, (GPR -
CWI Poland) |
| 04/06/2009, Working class finds itself between the class struggle and the union
bureaucracy
Ewa Groszewska & Paul Newbery, members of August 80 union, Committee for
the Aid and Defence of Victimised Workers, and Polish Labour Party |
| 18/11/2008, General strike on the agenda
Paul Newberry, GPR (CWI in Poland) |
| 01/09/2008, ‘Defend the Labour Code - for a one day General Strike!’
Paul Newbery, Group for a Workers’ Party, (GPR, CWI Poland) |
| 27/08/2008, Government and bosses try to crush the workers’ movement
Wojtek Orowiecki, Group for a Workers’ Party (GPR), CWI in Poland |
| 23/06/2008, Donald Tusk government and bosses fear united workers’ struggle
Paul Newbery and Florian Nowicki, GPR (CWI Poland) |
| 27/02/2008, Unions pledge support for industrial action at Tesco retail giant
Paul Newberry, GPR (CWI Poland) |
| 13/02/2008, After 46 days on strike, the miners of Budryk have won a victory.
Florian Nowicki and Wojciech Orowieck, Group for a Workers’ Party (GPR -
CWI Poland) |
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