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Month: January 2007

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Lebanon

Lebanon: Sectarian clashes arise from political divisions

31 January 2007 Interview with Aysha Zaki, CWI member in Beirut

Union leaders hand over initiative to opposition parties

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Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka: Journalists protest against violent repression

30 January 2007 A Colombo journalist reports

Hundreds of journalists and media workers from five Sri Lankan media organisations staged a joint protest at Colombo Fort railway station last Tuesday, 23 January, against the threats and intimidation against journalists and their frequent […]

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Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka: World-wide protest at government’s thug methods

30 January 2007 socialistworld.net

Protest letters continue to bombard the office of the president of Sri Lanka following the brutal gangster attack on an anti-war meeting in Colombo.

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

US: Activists surge against Iraq occupation

30 January 2007 Dan DiMaggio, Socialist Alternative (CWI)

Serving soldiers join mass demonstrations

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cwi: world congress 2007 – Building a socialist alternative around the world

30 January 2007 Judy Beishon

World relations and the world economy

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Kashmir

Kashmir: Appeal for solidarity with earthquake affected workers

29 January 2007 J Khan, TURC- K, Kotli, Kashmir

The Trade Union Rights Campaign – Kashmir have been in the forefront of helping to organise solidarity for thousands of earthquake affected public sector workers in Pakistani Occupied Kashmir (POK).

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Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka: International protests follow vicious attack at anti-war rally.

29 January 2007 socialistworld.net

Protests outside embassies and consulates.

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Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka: Ireland – Socialists demand action against thugs

29 January 2007 CWI

Letters of strong protest from two of Ireland’s Socialist Party councillors:

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Nigeria

Nigeria: DSM goodwill message to the Nigerian Labour Congress

26 January 2007 Segun Sango, General Secretary, Democratic Socialist Movement, cwi in Nigeria

The DSM has been invited to address the NLC’s 9th Delegate Conference which is being held in Abuja, the Federal capital, on February 15 and 16. Below is the goodwill message that the DSM sent […]

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ARCHIVE | Latin America

Bolivia: mass protests demand right-wing Prefect’s resignation

25 January 2007 Adam Ziemkowski, CWI-Cochabamba, Bolivia

Two weeks of intense mobilisations, protests, and street blockades calling for the resignation of right-wing departmental Prefect (elected head of the regional administration), Manfred Reyes Villa, culminated in a popular assembly on January 16th in […]

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Italy

Italy: Explosion of protest at expansion of US base

24 January 2007 Mara Armellin, Controcorrente (Prc) Conegliano, Veneto

On Tuesday, 16 January, five thousand people demonstrated and blocked the railway station at Vicenza in north-eastern Italy.

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Iraq

Iraq: Bush continues his dangerous blunder

18 January 2007 The Socialist

"The most dangerous foreign policy blunder in this country since Vietnam" were the words Chuck Hagel, a Vietnam war veteran used to describe Bush’s latest revised Iraq strategy. Hagel, however, is not only a Vietnam […]

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ARCHIVE | Pakistan

Pakistan: Sindh teachers win legal battle against ban on union

17 January 2007 Sher Abro, Organiser TURCP (Dadu area), and local teachers’ union leader

Court reinstates sacked teachers’ union leaders

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Norway

Norway: Protests against health care cuts

16 January 2007 Johan Sand, CWI, Norway

‘Red-Green’ government feels working people’s anger

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Kashmir

Kashmir: Workers’ affected by 2005 earthquake strike and protest

15 January 2007 Toqeer Gillani, CWI Kashmir

Demands for decent compensation and living conditions

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Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka: Government blamed for violent attack on anti-war rally organisers

15 January 2007 CWI

Please draw up protests on the basis of the resolution for MPs (see below)

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Venezuela

Venezuela: ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ by Tariq Ali

14 January 2007 Peter Taaffe

There is great interest in Hugo Chávez’s Venezuela, Eva Morales’ Bolivia and Fidel Castro’s Cuba among workers and young people, worldwide.

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Kashmir

Kashmir: Successful Trade Union rights conference held

11 January 2007 J Khan

Government fails to solve the problems of the quake affected public sector workers.

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ARCHIVE | Middle East & North Africa

Lebanon: Unions call for mass action against government cuts

10 January 2007 Aysha Zaki, CWI, Beirut

Only a united working class can stop cuts and defeat imperialism

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Ireland North: Timetable for Assembly elections in trouble

9 January 2007 Ciaran Mulholland, Socialist Party (CWI), Belfast

Opposition to water charges unites working people

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Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka: Murderous raid on Anti-War Rally in Colombo

9 January 2007 Elizabeth Clarke

Siritunga Jaysuriya of the United Socialist Party (CWI Sri Lanka) and a handful of associates in the ‘United People’s Movement’ escaped with their lives when over 300 armed thugs, led by a deputy minister, raided […]

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ARCHIVE | Pakistan

Pakistan: protest against murder attempt on union rights campaigner

8 January 2007 Fazal Abass Shah, Chairman TURCP ((Trade Union Rights Campaign Pakistan), Monday 8 January 2007

TURCP campaigners and social rights activists condemn police inaction

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World Economy

World Economy: Micro credits founder wins Nobel prize

4 January 2007 Sonja Grusch

Can poor loans system end poverty and hunger?

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Britain

Britain: 2006 – Increased poverty, unemployment and war

3 January 2007 Peter Taaffe

Capitalism, both in Britain and worldwide, means increased poverty, unemployment and war for the peoples of the world. This is the unmistakeable message from the past year’s events.

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ARCHIVE | Pakistan

Pakistan: Journalist union and Hawkers union win the important battle against bosses

1 January 2007 Azam , Trade union Rights Campaign (TURCP) Islamabad Organiser and Hawkers union activist, Islamabad

The joint struggle of the Federal Union of Journalists and the Newspaper Hawkers Union forced the newspaper bosses to retreat from reducing the newspapers holidays from 8 to 6 days annually.

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