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Month: July 2005

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ARCHIVE | Liberdade, Socialismo e Revolução was the CWI section in Brazil until 2019

Brazil: Party of Socialism and Liberty (PSOL) condemns London police shooting

29 July 2005 Solidarity message from P-SOL (Party of Socialism and Liberty), Brazil

‘Shoot to kill’ death of Jean Charles de Menezes – “This crime was unacceptable”

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Iran

Iran: Governement executes gay teenagers

29 July 2005 Marc Vallée Socialist Party England and Wales.

The newly elected president of Iran, the religious conservative and former revolutionary guard Mahmoud Ahmadinejad who was elected on the 24 June tried to play down fears of Iranian workers during the election campaign that […]

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Ireland North

Northern Ireland: IRA prepares statement on its future

28 July 2005 Peter Hadden

A statement by the IRA on its future role, which has been in the pipeline for some time, is still eagerly awaited by the British and Irish governments and the main political parties.

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Britain

Britain: London bombings – national protests needed to oppose terror, war, racism and increased state repression.

27 July 2005 Editorial

Recent events have dramatically heightened the atmosphere of insecurity and tension in Britain, and particularly London.

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ARCHIVE | Pakistan

Pakistan: 120 Trade Union activists attend TURCP meeting in Islamabad

26 July 2005 Azam Janjuah and Shahid Zaheer, TURCP Islamabad

More than 120 trade union activists and leaders of different trade unions attended a meeting organised by Trade Union Rights Campaign in the Pakistan Telecommunications Company Limited Colony in Islamabad on 13 July.

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Britain

Britain: Hospital workers condemn terrorism and war

22 July 2005 statement

Since the bombings, the Socialist Party has been calling for an emergency demonstration to be organised with the clear message: ‘No to terror, no to war, no to racism’.

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Israel / Palestine

Israel: Reactionary right whips up homophobia against Pride demonstration

21 July 2005 Shahar Benhar, CWI Israel

Weeks of a vicious propaganda campaign against the proposal to hold a Pride Parade in Jerusalem resulted in demonstrators being stabbed by a reactionary ultra right-wing settler at the event on June 30.

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Britain

Britain: After the London bombings – No to terror! No to War!

20 July 2005 Hannah Sell

The main reaction of working people to the horror of the London bombings has been a mood of unity against terrorism.

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Comment & Analysis

Review: Mao – The Unknown Story by Jung Chang and Jon Halliday

20 July 2005 Peter Taaffe

An attempt to discredit the Chinese Revolution and, by association, the ideas of socialism.

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ARCHIVE | Socialist Alternative was the CWI section in the USA until 2019

US: Organized Labor at a Crossroads

19 July 2005 Philip Locker, Socialist Alternative, US

AFL-CIO convention

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ARCHIVE | Liberdade, Socialismo e Revolução was the CWI section in Brazil until 2019

Brazil: Lula government in crisis

18 July 2005 Marcus Kollbrunner, Brazil, Socialismo Revolucionario (CWI in Brazil)

Fraud and corruption revelations forces top level resignations

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Britain

Britain: BBC listeners vote for Marx

18 July 2005 Tony Saunois

“Philosophers have interpreted the world the point is to change it”.

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ARCHIVE | ChinaWorker.info was the CWI section in China, Honk Kong and Taiwan until 2019

Taiwan: Taiwan and the right to self determination

15 July 2005 socialistworld.net

What attitude should Marxists adopt to the national question in Taiwan?

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Britain

Britain: London bombings and Iraq

14 July 2005 CWI

There is a huge wellspring of sympathy and solidarity – shared by the socialist – for the victims of the London tube and bus bombings. The unspeakable horrors that have been visited on the innocent […]

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ARCHIVE | the Socialist Party was the CWI section in Australia until 2019

Australia: After workers’ mass action against Howard’s Industrial Relations…

13 July 2005 Editorial (2 July) from the Socialist, paper of the Socialist Party, Australia

Workers need a political voice

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Africa

Africa: Nigerian Socialist interviewed on BBC Radio 2

12 July 2005 CWI

Segun Sango, general secretary of the Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI in Nigeria) has just been interviewed by Jeremy Vine on BBC Radio 2 on the problems of debt and poverty in Africa.

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Comment & Analysis

Review: Lenin’s life rewritten

12 July 2005 Perter Taaffe

Lenin by Christopher Read

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ARCHIVE | Pakistan

Pakistan: The struggle against privatisation of Pakistan Telecoms

11 July 2005 Azad Qadri and Khalid Bhatti, Socialist Movement Pakistan.

A reply to the distortions of ‘Class Struggle’

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Iran

Iran: Iranian elections

10 July 2005 Lynn Walsh

Hardliner’s victory stuns Western leaders

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Comment & Analysis

G8: Meeting to defend capitalism at Gleneagles

8 July 2005 Manny Thain

In business to spread poverty

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Our activity

cwi comment and analysis: No to terrorism – No to war

8 July 2005 CWI statement

For mass united working class action against imperialism and capitalism

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ARCHIVE | the Socialist Party was the CWI section in Australia until 2019

Australia: Nation-wide workers’ protests against government

7 July 2005 Anthony Maine, Socialist Party (CWI), Melbourne

Workers show anger at Industrial Relations legislation

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Germany

Germany: A new challenge from the left

6 July 2005 Sascha Staničić

National congress of new left-wing party WASG in Germany prepares for general elections

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Comment & Analysis

G8: Alternative Summit leaders fail to show a way forward

5 July 2005 Manny Thain

The Make Poverty History demo over, the leaders of the counter summit organised a series of meetings and rallies to put forward strategy for the movement. Many of those who attended the meetings were clearly […]

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Comment & Analysis

G8: Fighting poverty worldwide – interviews at the demonstrations

5 July 2005 Titi Salaam

"The massive protests we saw show that people really do want poverty to end and have an eagerness for another world.

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Comment & Analysis

G8: CWI rallies for socialism at meeting filled to overflowing

4 July 2005 Paula Mitchell

It was impossible not to be moved by the CWI rally on Saturday after the main demo. I heard the comment, "That was fantastic" again and again afterwards.

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Comment & Analysis

G8: Millions demand an end to poverty

4 July 2005 Tony Saunois

As the leaders of the G8 imperialist powers begun to assemble in Gleneagles, Scotland, where hotel room rental runs to £685 per night, millions of people around the world took to the streets on demonstrations […]

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Comment & Analysis

g8: Is the threat of a nuclear war growing?

4 July 2005 CWI

Four page cwi leaflet for G8 protest. PDF. Opens in new window. 72KB.

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Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia: Campaign for democratic trade union rights

4 July 2005 Alec Thraves

Yahya Al-Faifi has had to seek refuge in Swansea because the Saudi Arabian government has deemed that he is guilty of the ‘crime’ of trying to organize his fellow workers.

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ARCHIVE | Socialist Alternative was the CWI section in the USA until 2019

US: Stop the Right-wing Takeover of the Supreme Court!

4 July 2005 CWI

The resignation of Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor has opened up the most contentious political battle so far of Bush’s second term.

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Comment & Analysis

G8: Millions demand an end to poverty

4 July 2005 Tony Saunois

As the leaders of the G8 imperialist powers begun to assemble in Gleneagles, Scotland, where hotel room rental runs to £685 per night, millions of people around the world took to the streets on demonstrations […]

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ARCHIVE | LSP/MAS was the CWI section in Belgium until 2019

G8: Massive protest against summit.

3 July 2005 Kristof, LSP/MAS, Scotland

Biggest political demo ever in Scotland.

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Comment & Analysis

g8: The struggle for socialism in Scotland

2 July 2005 Sinéad Daly

The experience of eight years of a pro-capitalist, pro-war New Labour government has graphically illustrated that Blair and Co are a party of big business.

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Austria

Austria: Striking Slovakian workers win court case against Mondi Company

2 July 2005 Sonja Grusch

International solidarity – more then a slogan!

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Comment & Analysis

g8: G8 can’t save the planet

1 July 2005 Ken Douglas

The discussions on climate change at the G8 summit in Gleneagles seem doomed before they have even started.

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ARCHIVE | the Socialist Party was the CWI section in Australia until 2019

Australia: 100 000s of workers bring Melbourne to a halt

1 July 2005 Steve Jolly, Socialist Party Councillor, Yarra City Council, Melbourne

Possibly over 100,000 workers marched through Melbourne on 30 June, against the imminent attacks of the Federal Government of John Howard under the new Industrial Relations legislation.

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Iran

Iran: Election blow to pro-capitalist wing of ruling elite and imperialism

1 July 2005 Robert Bechert

The rich defeated but Ahmadinejad is no alternative

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Iraq

Iraq: Deeper in the quagmire

1 July 2005 Judy Beishon

No-one believed US vice-president Dick Cheney when he said the Iraqi insurgency was in its "last throes".

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