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Month: November 2006

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Bolivia

Bolivia: As political tensions rage in Bolivia, protesters wage battle with police

11/30/2006 By Adam Ziemkowski, CWI, Cochabamba, Bolivia

On Monday, November 27, several hundred protesters surrounded the entrance to Cochabamba’s municipal building in what turned out to be a sharp clash with right-wing thugs and provocateurs and the Cochabamba police. 

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Malaysia

Malaysia: Armed police and bulldozers again attack villagers

11/30/2006 socialistworld.net

Send urgent protests to stop demolitions and evictions!

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Malaysia

Malaysia: Embassies

11/30/2006 CWI

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

Sweden: Government plans drastic cuts to jobless benefits

11/30/2006 Per Olsson, Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (CWI in Sweden)

Workers’ anger forces TUC to call protests

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

Australia: Why Labor won the Victoria State elections

11/29/2006 Socialist Party reporters, Melbourne

Greens fail to make promised breakthrough

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Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka: War preparations must be stopped!

11/29/2006 Socialistworld.net

The leader of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, in his Heroes’ Day speech, has warned of an end to the cease-fire and of the ‘Tigers’ renewing their demand for independence.

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Netherlands

Netherlands: Elections bring major changes to political landscape

11/28/2006 Elizabeth Bakker, Offensief (CWI), Amsterdam

Left course needed to build on Socialist Party’s polls breakthrough

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ARCHIVE | Pakistan

Pakistan: Breakthrough first National Convention of Trade Union Rights Campaign Pakistan (TURCP)

11/28/2006 Fazal Abbas Shah and Rukhsana Manzoor, TURCP, Lahore, Pakistan

More than 300 Trade Unionists in attendance

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

Australia: Socialist Party trebles its vote in Victoria State elections

11/27/2006 Socialist Party reporters, Melbourne

Largest SP poll from public housing voters

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Bolivia

Bolivia: Bolivian Politics Heating Up Once Again

11/27/2006 Adam Ziemkowski, CWI Cochabamba, Bolivia

Right-wing opposition to left-leaning Bolivian president, Evo Morales, and his governing party, Movement towards Socialism (MAS), has increased dramatically in the last week as potential conflicts that have been brewing for months have recently come […]

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Mexico

Mexico: More violence in Oaxaca

11/27/2006 Juan Guerrero

Confrontations between police and demonstrators result in 48 wounded and 60 arrests

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

Belgium: Closure of Volkswagen factory shocks country

11/25/2006 Simon Van Haeren, CWI, London

Up to 11,000 jobs threatened

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ARCHIVE | Socialismo Revolucionario was the CWI section in Portugal until 2019

Portugal: “We are fighting back against a major offensive from the ‘Blairite’ Partido Socialista government”

11/25/2006 Lisbon City Council trade union leader

Two day public services general strike

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ARCHIVE | Poland

Poland: 23 miners dead in methane blast

11/24/2006 Paul Newberry, Warsaw, Poland

An explosion in Halemba mine in Poland has killed 23 miners.

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Netherlands

Netherlands: Dutch Socialist Party makes big election gains

11/24/2006 Niall Mulholland

For a bold socialist programme – No to a coalition with rightwing parties!

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Our activity

cwi: Futura Umanità – Un’alternativa rivoluzionaria per un mondo in tumulto, Peter Taaffe

11/23/2006 CWI

This Italian edition of "Marxism in today’s world" is published by the Italian publishing collective ‘Giovane Talpa’ that asked the Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI) for information about our ideas and policies on the […]

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Lebanon

Lebanon: assassination

11/23/2006 Kevin Simpson

Pro-western Siniora government hangs on by its fingertips

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Malaysia

Malaysia: State Chief Minister orders battle to destroy whole village

11/23/2006 socialistworld.net

Twenty three arrested and held while devastation wrought

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

Russia: Workers at GM-Avtovaz car factory fight for union recognition

11/23/2006 Rob Jones, Sotsialisticheskoe soprotivleniye (CWI Russia)

Reinstate Ilsiyar Sherafutdiniva, victimised union leader!

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DR Congo

Congo: Presidential election triggers new crisis

11/22/2006 Peluola Adewale

Masses yearn for end to despotism, wars and poverty

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Mexico

Mexico: Hundreds of thousands gather for inauguration of legitimate president López Obrador

11/22/2006 Juan Guerrero

"Se ve, se siente, tenemos presidente"

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Nicaragua

Nicaragua: The return of the Sandinistas

11/21/2006 Kevin Simpson

As Daniel Ortega, leader of the Sandinistas, scraped home as president, thousands took to the streets of the capital, Managua, hooting car horns, sounding football klaxons and setting off fireworks to celebrate the victory.

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Bangladesh

Bangladesh: A new haven for reactionary Islam

11/20/2006 Khalid Bhatti Socialist Movement Pakistan, (CWI - Pakistan), London

Trade unionists and left activists under threat

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ARCHIVE | Pakistan

Pakistan: No to the 12 Hour Working Day, No To the Industrial Relations Ordinance 2002

11/20/2006 Fazal Abass Shah, Chairman TURCP, Lahore Pakistan

Trade Union Rights Campaign meeting attracts over 100 activists

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Sri Lanka: World-wide protests over murdered MP continue.

11/19/2006 socialistworld.net

Protests at the murder of prominent Tamil MP, Nadarajah Raviraj, continue to pour in to embassies around the world and directly to the office of the president of Sri Lanka, Mahinda Rajapakse.

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Mexico

Mexico: Hundreds travel to Oaxaca to show solidarity with mass protesters

11/18/2006 Eyewitness report by Juan Guerrero (CWI)

‘Monument to the Revolution’, Mexico DF – that is our rendezvous for last Saturday morning, 9 am.

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ARCHIVE | Cyprus

Cyprus: Kurdish refugees – First concessions made by government

11/17/2006 Simon Van Haeren, CWI, London and Athina Kariati, CWI, Cyprus

Last Wednesday, Nov 15, a meeting took place between the Cypriot Minister of the Interior N. Silikiotis and representatives from the Cypriot Kurdish Friendship Association – the organisation that struggles to win asylum for the […]

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Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka: World-wide protests at killing of Tamil MP

11/17/2006 socialistworld.net

Thousands march in Colombo; embassies picketed around the globe

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USA

US economy: Heading for recession?

11/17/2006 Lynn Walsh

The US economy slowed down sharply before the mid-term elections.

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Italy

Italy: Prodi government under seige

11/16/2006 Christine Thomas

Six months after it narrowly defeated the right-wing government of Silvio Berlusconi, Romano Prodi’s centre-left coalition in Italy is hanging by a thread.

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Iraq

Iraq: No easy exit from quagmire

11/15/2006 Peter Taaffe

“He doth bestride the narrow world, like a colossus; and we petty men, walk under his huge legs and peep about”. (Shakespeare, Julius Caesar) Bush, decked out as a poor imitation of a modern ‘Caesar’, […]

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ARCHIVE | Cyprus

Cyprus: Kurdish refugee asylum campaign – successful day of international protests!

11/14/2006 socialistworld.net

Cypriot Minister of Interior to meet with asylum seekers representative!

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

Cyprus: Kurdish refugee asylum campaign – successful day of international protests! – Sweden

11/14/2006 Elin Gaufin, Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna, CWI Sweden

Kurdish refugee asylum campaign

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Cyprus

Cyprus: Kurdish refugee asylum campaign – successful day of international protests! – Belgium

11/14/2006 Boris Malarme, Mouvement pour une Alternative Socialiste - Linkse Socialistische Partij CWI, Belgium

Respect the right to asylum of the Kurdish refugees!

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ARCHIVE | Cyprus

Cyprus: Kurdish refugee asylum campaign – successful day of international protests! – Pakistan

11/14/2006 Rukhsana Manzoor, Socialist Movement Pakistan, CWI, Lahore

Socialist Movement organises Solidarity Demonstration for Kurdish Refugees.

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ARCHIVE | Cyprus

Cyprus: Kurdish refugee asylum campaign – successful day of international protests! – Britain

11/14/2006 Simon Van Haeren, CWI, London

AKEL decides to close office early to avoid protesters!

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Cyprus

Cyprus: Kurdish refugee asylum campaign – successful day of international protests! – Germany

11/14/2006 Michael Koschitzki, SAV, CWI Germany

Friday 10 November was the first day of protests against the possible deportation of Kurdish asylum seekers from Cyprus in many countries across the world.

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ARCHIVE | Cyprus

Cyprus: Kurdish refugee asylum campaign – successful day of international protests! – Greece

11/14/2006 Andros Payiatsos, Xekinima, CWI Greece

Twenty five comrades in Athens and fifteen in Thessalonika took part in protests – one outside the Cyprus embassy in Athens and the other at the Cyprus consulate in Thessalonika.

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ARCHIVE | Cyprus

Cyprus: Kurdish refugee asylum campaign – successful day of international protests! – Ireland

11/14/2006 Cillian Gillespie, Socialist Party, CWI, Ireland

Fifteen people attended a protest outside the Cypriot embassy in Dublin last Friday to oppose the deportation of Kurdish asylum-seekers from Cyprus to Syria.

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Mexico

Mexico: Low intensity war against the people of Oaxaca

11/14/2006 Dirk Kozijns, Mexico City, Friday 10 of November 2006

25 deaths, 400 disappearances as the federal state clamps down to kill APPO

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

US: “People stood up to Chevron and said NO!”

11/14/2006 Ty Moore interviews union/Green campaigner

Green elected mayor of Richmond, California

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USA

US: Bush suffers Mid-term elections “thumping defeat”

11/14/2006 Lynn Walsh

Working class says no to war and neo-liberalism

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Comment & Analysis

Review: Capitalism Unleashed by Andrew Glyn

11/13/2006 Lynn Walsh

Since the early 1980s, world capitalism has followed a trajectory based on globalisation and neo-liberal policies.

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Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka: Tamil MP killed for speaking out

11/12/2006 socialistworld.net

High profile assassination demands massive response

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Austria

Austria: Vienna: Successful demonstration against racism and fascism

11/11/2006 Sonja Grusch

November 9th saw hundreds join a demonstration against racism and fascism in Vienna initiated by the Socialist Left Party, SLP.

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ARCHIVE | Socialismo Revolucionario was the CWI section in Portugal until 2019

Portugal: Rising class tensions and protests against neo-liberalism

11/11/2006 Francisco Raposo, Alternativa Socialista, CWI Portugal and Simon Van Haeren, CWI, London

A balance sheet after the 12 October 100,000 strong demonstration

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History & Anniversaries

History: Hungary 1956 – the dreams and the distortions

11/10/2006 Clare Doyle

How the events are seen today

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Hungary

Hungary: A view from Budapest

11/10/2006 socialistworld.net

Recent political developments in Hungary

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

Brazil: Lula wins second term in presidential elections

11/09/2006 André Ferrari, Socialismo Revolucionário (CWI Brazil), Sao Paulo

Build a third round of struggles

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Britain

Britain: The Brown ascendancy

11/09/2006 Hannah Sell

In its nine years in office New Labour has presided over the brutal occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan, the privatisation of more public services than the Tories, and a bonanza of riches for the elite […]

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Scotland

Scotland: Solidarity conference agrees to build a socialist party

11/07/2006 Philip Stott

Urgent campaigning needed in working class communities

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Israel / Palestine

Israel: New budget declares war against Israeli workers

11/06/2006 Yasha Marmerstien, Maavak Sozialisti (CWI Israel/Palestine), Tel Aviv

New workers’ party necessary to fight back

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Bangladesh

Bangladesh: Political tension on the rise as 28 killed in violence

11/04/2006 Khalid Bhatti, Socialist Movement Pakistan (SMP – CWI Pakistan), Lahore

Danger of army intervention

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

Belgium: Six hundred at conference for a new left formation

11/04/2006 Eric Byl, LSP/MAS secretary, Brussels

Important step towards a new workers’ party

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Israel / Palestine

Israel: Gay Pride demo under serious threat

11/03/2006 Shahar Benhar, Maavak Sotzialisti, CWI Israel

Reactionary Jewish and Arab groups unite in homophobic campaign

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ARCHIVE | Cyprus

Cyprus: Kurdish asylum seeker Saaid Alhachemi freed from prison

11/01/2006 Simon Van Haeren, CWI, London

Solidarity campaign plays important role in his release

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ARCHIVE | Sozialistische Alternative was the CWI section in Germany until 2019

Germany: Skirmishes at Sri Lankan Embassy in Berlin

11/01/2006 SAV, cwi Germany

Embassy officials attempt to intimidate protesters

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