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Month: May 2006

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

East Timor: Foreign occupation is to protect profits

05/31/2006 Stephen Jolly, Socialist Party (CWI Australia), Melbourne

Six years after their first military intervention, a second Australia-led military and police force has re-occupied East Timor.

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ARCHIVE | Canada

World Economy: Peak Oil

05/31/2006 Bill Hopwood, Socialist Party

The world economy today is hooked on fossil fuels: oil, gas and coal.

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

Australia: Launch of rebel union, Unite, hits headlines

05/31/2006 socialistworld.net

The launch in Melbourne at the week-end of ’Unite’ – a new union for fast food and retail workers – has received huge publicity in Australia.

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

Brazil: Workers fight back against poverty and state violence in the favellas

05/30/2006 Tony Saunois, cwi, Brazil

Eyewitness account of how capitalism brings tragedy and violence to Brazil’s poor

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Germany

Germany: “Marx is Muss”

05/30/2006 Socialist Alternative (SAV)

On the policies and practice of Linksruck (the German equivalent of the British Socialist Workers’ Party)

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Germany

Germany: Five million watch German Trotskyist

05/30/2006 Robert Bechert

"Struggle against unemployment and not against the unemployed"

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ARCHIVE | the Socialist Party was the CWI section in Northern Ireland until 2019

Northern Ireland: Unite against sectarianism

05/29/2006 Ciaran Mulholland, Socialist Party, Belfast

A fifteen year old Catholic school student, Michael McIlveen, was brutally assaulted in a sectarian attack in Ballymena town, County Antrim, on 7 May. He made it home but then collapsed and was taken to […]

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Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka: Elections and the menace of war

05/29/2006 Siritunga Jayasuriya

Sri Lanka has just come to the end of a period of elections.

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Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan: Bakai shanty residents clash with police

05/28/2006 Ainur Kurmanov, Socialist Resistance (CWI in Kazakhstan)

Mass resistance stops homes demolition

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

East Timor: Timorese soldiers strike against low pay and brutality

05/27/2006 Anthony Maine, Socialist Party, Melbourne

Australian government despatches troops to ’secure’ Dili airport

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Germany

Germany: WASG Left opposition meeting condemns national leadership attacks

05/27/2006 Angelika Teweleit

First successful national meeting of the WASG Left

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ARCHIVE | the Socialist Party was the CWI section in the Republic of Ireland until 2019

Ireland: Afghan asylum seekers hunger strike ended by police

05/26/2006 Cillian Gillespie, Socialist Party (CWI), Dublin

Government scapegoats refugees for poor welfare and lack of housing

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Montenegro

Montenegro: Referendum result ends ‘Union’ with Serbia

05/26/2006 Niall Mulholland

Capitalist independence will not end poverty and ethnic divisions

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Britain

Britain: Blair’s election defeat

05/25/2006 Peter Taaffe

May’s local elections exposed the deep discontent in British society.

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ARCHIVE | Cyprus

Cyprus: Kurdish refugees’ victory

05/25/2006 Youth Against Nationalism, Cyprus

"For the first time in my life I feel I am a human being"

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Germany

Germany: “Between Trotsky and Lafontaine”

05/24/2006 socialistworld.net

‘Junge Welt’ debate between Lucy Redler (SAV) and Christine Buchholz (Linksruck)

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ARCHIVE | the Socialist Party was the CWI section in the Republic of Ireland until 2019

Ireland: “Why Australian Prime Minister Howard is not welcome”

05/24/2006 Tony Gregory T.D. (Independent) Dublin Central

Joe Higgins and independent TDs (MPs) condemn anti-union, pro-war leader

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ARCHIVE | Pakistan

Pakistan: Police brutally attack peaceful workers’ demonstration in Karachi

05/23/2006 Babu Ladhu, Organiser TURCP, Karachi

Trade Union Rights Campaign (TURCP) condemns police brutality and organises solidarity demonstration

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ARCHIVE | Cyprus

Cyprus: Kurdish refugees on hunger strike for basic rights

05/22/2006 socialistworld.net

Youth Against Nationalism in Cyprus appeals for solidarity

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ARCHIVE | Pakistan

Pakistan: Sacked Postal workers win battle

05/22/2006 Chaudhary Shafique, TURCP Organiser, Lahore, Pakistan

One thousand four hundred workers reinstated as result of struggle

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ARCHIVE | Pakistan

Pakistan: Thousands of power loom workers show their anger

05/21/2006 Malik Muhammad Din Organizer TURCP Faisalabad

Implement the agreement or face strike action!

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Italy

Italy: New Prodi government sworn in

05/20/2006 Clare Doyle

Workers’ representatives will have to fight for real change

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India

India: State elections portrayed as success for Communist Parties

05/19/2006 Jagadish G Chandra

‘Communists’ garner the votes of poor but policies are increasingly pro-business

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ARCHIVE | the Socialist Party was the CWI section in the Republic of Ireland until 2019

Ireland: “War monger and anti-union” Australian PM not welcome

05/19/2006 socialistworld.net

Socialist MP denounces John Howard’s right wing government

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ARCHIVE | the Socialist Party was the CWI section in the Republic of Ireland until 2019

Ireland: Afghan refugees’ thirst and hunger strike – eight hospitalised

05/19/2006 Socialist Party (Ireland) reporters, Dublin

Urgent solidarity needed!

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ARCHIVE | Socialist Alternative was the CWI section in Russia and the CIS until 2019

Russia: Kholodmash factory workers end hunger strike

05/19/2006 Rob Jones, CWI, Moscow

Bosses indicate wage concessions but jobs remain precarious

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ARCHIVE | the Socialist Party was the CWI section in the Republic of Ireland until 2019

Ireland: Socialist MP supports plea of Afghan refugees on hunger strike

05/18/2006 socialistworld.net

No deportations to “one of the most disturbed and violent places on earth”

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South Africa

South Africa: DSM member and shop steward wins reinstatement at Super Spar

05/18/2006 Weizmann Hamilton

International solidarity plays role in victory

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Venezuela

Venezuela: Workers’ rights campaign – Stop the repression of Trade Union rights in the pharmaceutical company RACE

05/18/2006 Suprofrad trade union, Caracas, Venezuela, Thursday 18 May 2006

Stop the repression of Trade Union rights in the pharmaceutical company RACE

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Venezuela

venezuela: workers’ rights campaign – Fighting for workers’ rights in the Bolivarian Republic

05/18/2006 WRCV, Venezuela, 18 May 2006

We seek the support of the international workers’ movement

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Germany

Germany: WASG leadership suspends party’s Berlin Regional Committee

05/17/2006 Sascha Staničić

But anti-cuts Berlin WASG re-affirm standing independently

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ARCHIVE | Socialist Alternative was the CWI section in Russia and the CIS until 2019

Russia: Female factory workers start hunger strike

05/17/2006 CWI reporters, Russia

Urgent solidarity appeal!

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Brazil

Brazil: Violence erupts in Sao Paulo

05/16/2006 Tony Saunois, cwi, Sao Paulo, Brazil.

“A day in Baghdad” was how many journalists and commentators in Brazil described Sunday 14 May.

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Germany

Germany: Ailing capitalism slashes workers’ wages and conditions

05/16/2006 Peter Taaffe

Trade union bureaucracy holds workers’struggles back

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ARCHIVE | Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna was the CWI section in Sweden until 2019

Review: “European Dawn” by Munkhammar

05/14/2006 Per-Åke Westerlund, Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna, Sweden

“Shock therapy to end the welfare state.” New book by Swedish right-wing author finds high praise amongst capitalists.

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ARCHIVE | the Socialist Party was the CWI section in the Republic of Ireland until 2019

Ireland: Joe Higgins demands for social housing

05/12/2006 socialistworld.net

Government aids “speculator landlords” and “profiteering developers”

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Comment & Analysis

Review: 1926 General Strike – 9 days that shook Britain by Peter Taaffe

05/12/2006 The Socialist

;Nine days that shook British capitalism to its foundation.

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Comment & Analysis

Review: 1926 General Strike – 9 days that shook Britain by Peter Taaffe

05/12/2006 The Socialist

Nine days that shook British capitalism to its foundation.

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ARCHIVE | Xekinima was the CWI section in Greece until 2019

Greece: Massive European Social Forum rally in Athens

05/11/2006 Andros, Xekinima (CWI in Greece)

Fighting, socialist policies needed to resist war, cuts and capitalism

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

Australia: Mass picket brings workers’ victory at Melbourne engineering plant

05/10/2006 Socialist Party (cwi) members, Melbourne

First serious setback for government’s new anti-union laws

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Britain

Britain: Huddersfield – voters choose a socialist and a fighter!

05/10/2006 Sarah Sachs-Eldridge

“We’re voting for Jackie – she’s the only one we trust to fight for our services. All the others have promised us everything and delivered nothing”.

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Britain

Britain: Local elections – A death blow for Blair?

05/10/2006 Hannah Sell

The results in last Thursday’s local authority elections were a devastating blow for New Labour and could be a death blow for Blair.

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May Day

May Day 2006: Public sector workers celebrate Mayday.

05/09/2006 Toqueer Golani, CWI Kashmir, Kotli, POK

For an end to class and national oppression

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

US: May Day returns to the United States

05/08/2006 Philip Locker, Socialist Alternative (CWI in US)

Millions of immigrant workers take to the streets

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ARCHIVE | Pakistan

May Day 2006: Trade Union Rights Campaign (TURCP) organises activities across Pakistan

05/07/2006 TURCP reporters, Pakistan

Activities go ahead despite intimidation of authorities

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Britain

Britain: Socialist Party successes in council elections

05/06/2006 socialistworld.net

Press statement from the Socialist Party

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Germany

Germany: “Unity” at the expense of the working class

05/06/2006 Robert Bechert

A reply to Linksruck, sister organisation of the British SWP

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Italy

Italy: End of Berlusconi era; clean break needed with neo-liberal policies

05/06/2006 Clare Doyle

Silvio Berlusconi, the tycoon prime minister of Italy for five years, has finally tendered his resignation.

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May Day

Austria: May Day with the Trade Union Council

05/05/2006 Johnny Evers, SLP, Vienna, Austria

Socialist Left Party’s newspaper nearly all sold!

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May Day

May day 2006: Socialists defy ban on demos in Sri Lanka

05/05/2006 CWI

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May Day

May Day 2006: Hong Kong demo sees launch of CWI Chinese paper

05/04/2006 Watson Yu, CWI Hong Kong

This year’s May Day demonstration in Hong Kong marked a historic event for the Committee for a Workers’ International.

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May Day

May Day 2006: Historic march to Kuala Lumpur City Centre completed despite police repression

05/04/2006 socialistworld.net

After many years the May Day march in Kuala Lumpur organised by the Parti Sosialis Malaysia (Malaysian Socialist Party) reached its final destination despite heavy police repression.

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May Day

May Day 2006: workers rescue DSM members from police in Nigeria

05/04/2006 Democratic Socialist Movement reporters, Lagos, Nigeria

Support the call for a mass working peoples party

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May Day

May day 2006: Socialists defy ban on demos in Sri Lanka

05/04/2006 Siritunga Jayasuriya

United Socialist Party (USP – CWI Sri Lanka) campaigns to stop the dangerous slide into new civil war.

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ARCHIVE | Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna was the CWI section in Sweden until 2019

May Day 2006: Swedish demonstrations not indicative of opposition to government attacks

05/04/2006 Ulrika Waaranperä, Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna, Stockholm

CWI members campaign for an end to attacks and for a decent minimum wages in preparation for September elections

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May Day

may day 2006: immigrants rights protest in Seattle

05/04/2006 Bryan Watson, Socialist Alternative (CWI), Seattle, Thursday 4 May 2006.

The May 1st rally and march in Seattle was a powerful expression of strength by the immigrant working class. Thousands of workers in Seattle and across Washington State participated in job actions and strikes, with […]

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May Day

May Day 2006: Hundreds of thousands march in Caracas

05/04/2006 Celso Calfullan, Caracas, Venezuela

International workers day celebrated with a lot of enthusiasm.

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

US: Student walk-out defies rain and repression

05/03/2006 Janae Marshall, Ella Comeau and Ty Moore, Socialist Alternative, US

Four students arrested

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Germany

Germany: WASG National Congress

05/02/2006 Robert Bechert

A dangerous move to the right

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May Day

US: Thousands attend Boston May Day rally

05/02/2006 Hank Gonzalez and Bryan Koulouris, Socialist Alternative (CWI), Boson, US

Immigrants respond despite ‘officials’ pulling out of protests

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

US: Global capitalism fueling poverty and immigration

05/01/2006 Greg Beiter, Socialist Alternative, US

System change needed

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

US: Which way forward for the immigrants’ rights movement?

05/01/2006 Hank Gonzalez, Socialist Alternative (CWI in US)

A socialist strategy

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

US: A new force merges

05/01/2006 Dan DiMaggio, Socialist Alternative, US

The importance of the immigrant rights’ movement

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

US: Special feature – Immigrants’ rights movement

05/01/2006 socialistworld.net

Analysis and tasks

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