September 2007 | Committee for a Workers International

Pakistan: Crisis continues in run-up to presidential elections

09/30/2007 Khalid Bhatti, SMP

All wings of establishment jostle for power

Britain: Rocking capitalism

09/30/2007 Lynn Walsh

The Northern Rock banking crisis

Africa: Workers’ struggle and capitalist nightmare

09/28/2007 Per-Åke Westerlund, CWI Sweden

Economic ‘upswing’ offers no improvement for the masses

History: 40th anniversary of the death of Che Guevara

09/27/2007 Tony Saunois

“..it is not for revolutionaries to sit in their doorways of their houses waiting for the corpse of imperialism to pass by” (Second Declaration of Havana, 1962)

Burma: Army shoot peaceful demonstrators

09/27/2007 Khalid Bhatti

Deaths and injuries, as protests spread

Britain: Banking crisis exposes fragile economic boom

09/26/2007 Peter Taaffe

Capitalism could drag millions of working people into an economic and social abyss.

Northern Ireland: Classroom Assistants vote 93% for strike action on 26 September

09/25/2007 Brian Booth, NIPSA Branch Secretary & Classroom Workers Strike Committee South Eastern Education & Library Board

1,000 schools affected…picket lines in every city, town and village

Northern Ireland: Assembly government carries out neo-liberal policies

09/25/2007 Ciaran Mulholland, Socialist Party, Belfast

Sectarian parties lower taxes for big business while hiking taxes for workers

Burma: Dictatorship under threat

09/25/2007 Clare Doyle

Military warns of “action” against biggest street protests for two decades

Lebanon: MP assassinated days before elections

09/24/2007 Amin Mansour and Aysha Zaki, CWI Lebanon

Government and opposition struggle intensifies

Greece: Elections see New Democracy and PASOK support slashed

09/24/2007 Andros Payiatsos, Xekinima (Greek section of CWI)

Major gains for left parties

Britain: Economy hits a rock

09/21/2007 Editorial

The Northern Rock crisis, the first full scale bank run in Britain for over a century

Britain: Nationalise the banks!

09/21/2007 Hannah Sell

Make the bankers pay!

Pakistan: Pakistan on the brink – New introduction to “Marxism in Today’s World”

09/21/2007 Peter Taaffe

This is an opportune time for the publication of the Pakistani edition of this book.

Sweden: Thousands on anti-government protests across the country

09/20/2007 Per Olsson, Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (CWI Sweden)

Biggest left-wing mobilisation for many years

Scotland: Launch of The Socialist newspaper

09/19/2007 Editorial from The Socialist (newspaper of the International Socialists – CWI in Scotland)

New journal continues struggle for a powerful socialist alternative

US: Anti-war activist runs against top house Democrat

09/19/2007 CWI

In July, anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan announced that she would challenge Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for her California congressional seat in 2008. Explaining her reasons for running, Sheehan, whose son was killed in Iraq, […]

Iraq: Get the troops out now

09/17/2007 CWI

"Generals lie, Soldiers die"

Venezuela: Workers’ occupy Ministry of Labour offices

09/17/2007 Bravo, Collectivo Socialismo Revolucionario, CWI Venezuela

Armed threats ends action

Britain: ‘The Socialist’ celebrates 500 issues

09/14/2007 Editorial

The successful strike actions of the Prison Officers Association (POA) and the RMT maintenance workers on London Underground have potentially changed the industrial situation in Britain to the benefit of trade unions and workers, if […]