 latest news
18/06/2013: Well over 250,000 in approximately 20 cities took to the streets
18/06/2013: Revelations by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden have exposed US
hypocrisy over cyber-spying
17/06/2013: End the rule of big business, poverty and war
16/06/2013: Mass demonstrations against the increase of bus fares in all major cities
15/06/2013: “We will defend our rights and continue fighting”.
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.
13/06/2013: MEP Paul Murphy criticises EU foreign policy representative, Catherine
Ashton, over calls for ’restraint on all sides’
12/06/2013: Unions must organise general strike action now!
12/06/2013: Socialist MP slams huge security operation and anti-working class record
of world leaders
11/06/2013: Erdogan seeks trial of strength with mass protests
11/06/2013: Oppose the summit of capitalist leaders, argues Paul Murphy in the
European Parliament
11/06/2013: Report from London, with CWI comment on the developments in Turkey
11/06/2013: A genuine working class fighter and a revolutionary socialist
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”.
08/06/2013: 24th anniversary of Beijing’s crackdown draws 150,000 protestors
08/06/2013: Urgent need for independent working class socialist organisations
08/06/2013: Paul Murphy to visit heart of Turkish Protests
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.
07/06/2013: Police repression in the belly of the beast
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.
05/06/2013: Unrest grows over economic and social issues
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!
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.
02/06/2013: Secret Services bolster police ahead of G8 Summit in N Ireland
01/06/2013: Vital lessons for today’s democracy struggle
31/05/2013: ‘Boycott, divestment and sanctions’- questions and answers about the BDS
campaign
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.
29/05/2013: EU council meeting: Another attempt to put the burden of the capitalist
crisis on the shoulders of youth and working people
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’
28/05/2013: Profits from destruction
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
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| 16/10/2012, But Ivanishvili’s ‘Georgian Dream’ is a false dawn for working class and
poor Rob Jones, Moscow
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| 03/09/2008, Major capitalist powers jockey for influence at expense of peoples of
the region Editorial from The Socialist, weekly paper of the Socialist Party (CWI
England and Wales) |
| 23/08/2008, A political analysis of developments in the Caucusus, 1990 - 2004 Rob Jones, CWI, Moscow |
| 23/08/2008, What does the war mean for the Caucusus and beyond? Rob Jones, CWI, Moscow |
| 11/08/2008, Statement on South Ossetia CWI in CIS (former Soviet Union) |
| 07/12/2003, The “November revolution” in Georgia culminated in the overthrow of
Eduard Shevardnadze. It was carried out under the flag of St George,
first used in the 12th and 13th Century, when the then feudal country
joined the struggle led by the crusader knights. The movement at that
time was crushed by Genghis Khan. This historic symbolism mirrors what
is happening in Georgia today. Leonid Serebrakov, cwi-cis |
| 01/11/2003, THE THOUSANDS of Georgians waving the flag of St George outside the
parliament building in Tbilisi weren’t celebrating England’s rugby world
cup victory - they were cheering the resignation of Georgia’s President
Eduard Shevardnadze. Dave Carr |
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