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Month: July 2008

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Italy

Italy: Crucial congress of Rifondazione Comunista rejects former leadership

31 July 2008 CWI

Chance to re-launch Rc as fighting workers’ party

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Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe: Will negotiations solve economic and political crisis?

31 July 2008 Weizmann Hamilton and Linda Ngcaba, Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI South Africa)

Courage of masses in face of social catastrophe and brutal repression

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ARCHIVE | Pakistan

Pakistan: Telecom workers win strike with 35% increase in the wages

31 July 2008 Fazal Abbas Shah, Trade Union Rights Campaign Pakistan (TURCP), Lahore

8,000 contract workers’ ‘regularisation’ confirmed

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ARCHIVE | Middle East & North Africa

Lebanon: “National Unity” government masquerade to “renew” the system

30 July 2008 Aysha Zaki, CWI, Beirut

Workers’ alternative to sectarianism and neo-liberalism needed

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ARCHIVE | Pakistan

Pakistan: Telecom strike continues as negotiations fail

29 July 2008 Azam Janjuah, TURCP, Islamabad

Thousands still sitting inside Telecom headquarters

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Scotland

Scotland: New Labour suffer electoral disaster in Glasgow East

28 July 2008 Philip Stott

Left party, Solidarity, receives very warm response to class policies

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Netherlands

Netherlands: Rise in industrial struggles

25 July 2008 Bas De Ruiter, Offensief (CWI Netherlands)

Workers demand living wages

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Austria

Austria: Political establishment in turmoil

23 July 2008 Laura Rafetseder, Sozialistische LinksPartei (SLP, CWI Austria), Vienna

New ‘Left Project’ alliance plans to contest early general elections

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

Ireland: Building and Allied Trade Union (BATU) strikers appeal for support

23 July 2008 Susan Fitzgerald, BATU striker

Union officials pass pickets, sacks employees, slash wages and refuse proper union recognition!

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ARCHIVE | Pakistan

Pakistan: 50,000 Telecom workers join countrywide strike

22 July 2008 Azad Qadri and Aazam Janjua, TURCP Islamabad

16 workers injured in clashes with paramilitary forces

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France

France: Sarkozy’s ‘strength’ is the lack of a fighting socialist alternative

21 July 2008 Leïla Messaoudi

What prospects are there for the development of a New Anti-capitalist Party?

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ARCHIVE | Pakistan

Pakistan: 50,000 Telecom workers join countrywide strike

21 July 2008 Azad Qadri and Aazam Janjua, TURCP Islamabad

16 workers injured in clashes with paramilitary forces

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USA

US: The Fall of Fannie and Freddie: Symptom of growing crisis in world capitalism

18 July 2008 Lynn Walsh

Bush regime lurches from neo-liberalism to state intervention

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ARCHIVE | Pakistan

Pakistan: 50,000 workers strike – power looms shut down in Faisalabad

17 July 2008 Khalid Bhatti, TURCP Faisalabad

Four day strike forced the government and owners to accept workers demands

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Iran

Iran: Military threat to Iran stepped up

16 July 2008 Judy Beishon

Potentially catastrophic consequences of bombing attack

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Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka: Elections being held in central Sri Lankan provinces

15 July 2008 Srinath Perera

United Socialist Party challenges government over war and prices

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Nigeria

Nigeria: Osun State Election Petition Scandal

15 July 2008 Peluola Adewale

Activists Clamped into Prison

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ARCHIVE | Xekinima was the CWI section in Greece until 2019

Grecia: El CWI en Grecia vota para unirse a SYRIZA (Coalición de la Izquierda Radical)

15 July 2008 Christina Ziaka, XEKINIMA (CIT en Grecia), Traducido por Luis Montilla, <span lang="ES-TRAD">España</span>

Un programa socialista es crucial para los futuros éxitos del partido

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

Brazil: National Coordination of Struggle (Conlutas) holds first national congress

14 July 2008 Marcus Kollbrunner (Socialismo Revolucionario – CWI Brazil)

Important step towards re-building workers’ movement in Brazil

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Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka: July 10 warning general strike marks new beginning

14 July 2008 Siritunga Jayasuriya

For a wage increase of just 5,000 rupees a month (£25)

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Nigeria

Nigeria: 10 July solidarity action with teachers’ strike

14 July 2008 socialistworld.net

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Nigeria

Nigeria: Labour and Civil Society Coalition (LASCO) calls ‘Solidarity Day’ with teachers’ strike

10 July 2008 Segun Sango, General Secretary Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM)

Pro-capitalist governments cannot meet basic needs of working masses

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Britain

Britain: The working class needs its own party

9 July 2008 Editorial

Being asked to choose between New Labour and Tory governments is no choice at all.

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Britain

Britain: Campaign for a New Workers’ Party conference

9 July 2008 CWI

Wanted: A new mass workers’ party

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Germany

Germany: Red flags raised on school roof

5 July 2008 Anne Engelhardt

Secondary education crisis politicises a new generation

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Nigeria

Nigeria: Government’s anti-union response to teachers’ strike

4 July 2008 Segun Sango

Time for collective strike action and mass protests by entire workforce and youth

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ARCHIVE | Africa

Burkina Faso: Brutal police action against student strike

3 July 2008 Tinette Schnatterer, SAV (CWI in Germany)

United action of protesting workers, students and poor needed!

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Nigeria

Nigeria: Teachers all-out strike for a living wage

3 July 2008 Segun Sango, General Secretary, Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI Nigeria)

Actively mobilise trades unions, workers, parents and students to aid teachers’ action

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Britain

Britain: National Shop Stewards Network (NSSN)

2 July 2008 Alison Hill

Rebuilding trade union strength

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Britain

Britain: Campaign for a New Workers’ Party (CNWP) third conference

2 July 2008 Greg Maughan

How can we fight for a working class political voice?

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Europe

EU: Irish ‘No’ vote hits EU rulers

1 July 2008 Peter Taaffe

Growing crisis & revolt across Europe

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Obituary

Obituary: Terry Fields, former Militant MP

1 July 2008 Tony Mulhearn

‘A workers’ MP on a worker’s wage’ – A fighter for the working class

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