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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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|  02/05/2013, ‘Defend pensions! Stop corruption!’
Chris Dite in Taipei, chinaworker.info
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|  13/03/2013, Over 200,000 take to the streets on the eve of Japan’s Fukushima
anniversary – to demand a nuclear-free Taiwan
Hsu Hsiao-ming and Pasha in Taipei
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|  18/07/2012, Solidarity needed in fight to save jobs
CWI Taiwan
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|  15/03/2012, Anniversary of Japan’s twin disasters and Fukushima meltdown sees
nuclear capitalists back on the offensive
Vincent Kolo, chinaworker.info
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|  19/10/2011, CWI Taiwan members make media splash
Ka-chi Chou, Socialist Blog (CWI in Taiwan)
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|  23/04/2010, Request for solidarity for YFOTU’s struggle for basic labour rights – No
to sweatshop mobile phones!
chinaworker.info, Friday, 23
April 2010.
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| 15/01/2008, ”This is the most disastrous defeat since the establishment of the
party” – Taiwan president Chen Shui-bian
Vincent Kolo, chinaworker.info |
| 31/08/2005, Recently, Peter Taaffe and Laurence Coates from the CWI wrote replies to
Mikawasima Tookjo, who’s recent article, "Is Taiwan a nation?" raised a
number of key issues on the cause of nationality and the approach of
socialists today. In doing so, the correspondent took issue with the
position of Chinaworker website, which is part of the CWI.
Socialistworld.net |
| 15/07/2005, What attitude should Marxists adopt to the national question in Taiwan?
socialistworld.net |
| 22/04/2005, The planned sell-off would place the majority (51 per cent) of the
company’s equity in private hands - the official definition of a
“privatised” company.
Laurence Coates, cwi, in Taipei |
| 21/04/2005, Filipina women workers in the Taiwanese capital, Taipei, have been
locked in battle with the China Times Weekly (CTW), one of the country’s
three top circulation newspapers, over a racist and sexist article it
ran on 7th March - the day before International Womens’ Day.
Laurence Coates, in Taipei, Taiwan |
| 11/04/2005, A flurry of diplomatic initiatives and counter-initiatives from Taiwan’s
sharply divided political establishment – the anti-independence pan-blue
bloc and formally pro-independence pan-greens – has shifted the
cross-strait issue (i.e. relations with China) into overdrive.
Laurence Coates in Taipei |
| 01/12/2004, Ahead of Taiwan’s elections on 11 December, Taiwanese socialist Huang
Ding-wang who is living abroad gave the following interview to Laurence
Coates of Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (CWI Sweden).
Laurence Coates, Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna, Stockholm, Sweden |
| 01/11/2004, Ahead of Taiwan’s elections on 11 December, Taiwanese socialist Huang
Ding-wang who is living abroad gave the following interview to Laurence
Coates of Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (CWI Sweden).
Laurence Coates, Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna, Stockholm, Sweden |
| 25/03/2004, Cries of "stolen election", 337,000 spoiled ballots, a double
assassination attempt and riots in the streets... Taiwan’s presidential
election had it all!
Laurence Coates, Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna, cwi Sweden |
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