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Month: July 2005

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Iran

Iran: Governement executes gay teenagers

July 29, 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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ARCHIVE | Liberdade, Socialismo e Revolução was the CWI section in Brazil until 2019

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

July 29, 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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Ireland North

Northern Ireland: IRA prepares statement on its future

July 28, 2005 Peter Hadden, Socialist Party, Belfast

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.

July 27, 2005 Editorial from The Socialist

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

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Pakistan

Pakistan: 120 Trade Union activists attend TURCP meeting in Islamabad

July 26, 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: London bombings – Workers maintain class unity

July 25, 2005 Mike Forster, UNISON education rep, Kirklees

A Yorkshire trade union rep’s viewpoint

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Britain

Britain: Hospital workers condemn terrorism and war

July 22, 2005 Socialist Party, England and Wales

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

July 21, 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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Comment & Analysis

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

July 20, 2005 Reviewed by Peter Taaffe, Socialist Party, England and Wales

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

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Britain

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

July 20, 2005 Hannah Sell, Socialist Party, London

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

US: Organized Labor at a Crossroads

July 19, 2005 Philip Locker, Socialist Alternative, US

AFL-CIO convention

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Britain

Britain: BBC listeners vote for Marx

July 18, 2005 Tony Saunois, cwi secretary, London

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

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

Brazil: Lula government in crisis

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

Fraud and corruption revelations forces top level resignations

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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

July 15, 2005 socialistworld.net

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

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Britain

Britain: London bombings and Iraq

July 14, 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…

July 13, 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

July 12, 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

July 12, 2005 Reviewed by Perter Taaffe, Socialist Party

Lenin by Christopher Read

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Pakistan

Pakistan: The struggle against privatisation of Pakistan Telecoms

July 11, 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

July 10, 2005 Lynn Walsh

Hardliner’s victory stuns Western leaders

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Our activity

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

July 8, 2005 Cwi statement, Friday 8 July 2005

For mass united working class action against imperialism and capitalism

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Comment & Analysis

G8: Meeting to defend capitalism at Gleneagles

July 8, 2005 Manny Thain, Socialist Party, Edinburgh

In business to spread poverty

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

Australia: Nation-wide workers’ protests against government

July 7, 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

July 6, 2005 Sascha Stanicic, Socialist Alternative, Berlin, Germany

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

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Comment & Analysis

G8: Fighting poverty worldwide – interviews at the demonstrations

July 5, 2005 Titi Salaam of the Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM), CWI Nigeria, spoke to Leah Jones

"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: Alternative Summit leaders fail to show a way forward

July 5, 2005 Manny Thain, Socialist Party, Edinburgh

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: Millions demand an end to poverty

July 4, 2005 Tony Saunois, Secretary of the CWI, Edinburgh

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?

July 4, 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

July 4, 2005 Alec Thraves, Socialist Party, Cardiff

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!

July 4, 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

July 4, 2005 Tony Saunois, Secretary of the CWI, Edinburgh

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: CWI rallies for socialism at meeting filled to overflowing

July 4, 2005 Paula Mitchell, Socialist Party, Edinburgh

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: Massive protest against summit.

July 3, 2005 Kristof, LSP/MAS, Scotland

Biggest political demo ever in Scotland.

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Comment & Analysis

g8: Is the threat of a nuclear war growing?

July 2, 2005 Harvey Duke, International Socialists, Dundee

During the 1962 Cuban missile crisis the world stood on the brink of nuclear war, as representatives of two super powers, the USA and the Soviet Union, carried on their ’Cold War’ brinkmanship.

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Austria

Austria: Striking Slovakian workers win court case against Mondi Company

July 2, 2005 Sonja Grusch, Socialist Left Party (SLP - CWI), Vienna

International solidarity – more then a slogan!

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Comment & Analysis

g8: Is the threat of a nuclear war growing?

July 2, 2005 Harvey Duke, International Socialists, Dundee

During the 1962 Cuban missile crisis the world stood on the brink of nuclear war, as representatives of two super powers, the USA and the Soviet Union, carried on their ’Cold War’ brinkmanship.

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Comment & Analysis

g8: The struggle for socialism in Scotland

July 2, 2005 Sinead Daly, International Socialists, Scotland

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

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

July 1, 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

July 1, 2005 Robert Bechert, cwi

The rich defeated but Ahmadinejad is no alternative

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Iraq

Iraq: Deeper in the quagmire

July 1, 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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América

Chile: Los movimientos de la elite política

July 1, 2005 Andrés Aravena, Socialismo Revolucionario, Chile

La renuncia a la precandidatura para la presidencia por parte de Soledad Alvear, demócrata cristiana, forma parte de la transformación de las tácticas de la elite dominante por evitar a toda costa que las relaciones […]

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América

Bolivia: Los trabajadores, los indígenas y pobres están dando un ejemplo al mundo.

July 1, 2005 CWI

Una nueva batalla de los trabajadores pone nuevamente en jaque al gobierno, divide a las FF.AA. y rebela la incapacidad y la negativa de Evo Morales y su movimiento político por una salida revolucionaria a […]

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Comment & Analysis

g8: G8 can’t save the planet

July 1, 2005 Ken Douglas, Socialist Party, England and Wales

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

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