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Month: October 2008

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Austria

Austria: Socialist players suspended from football club for anti-fascist activities

31 October 2008 Laura Rafetseder

Far right football club president moves against socialists

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China

China: China’s hybrid economy

31 October 2008 Lynn Walsh

No longer a planned economy, but not yet a fully capitalist economy

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China

China: The character of the Chinese state

31 October 2008 Lynn Walsh

China developments crucial importance to socialists everywhere

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Chile

Chile: Municipal elections

31 October 2008 Celso Calfullan

False representation of the right and the Concertación

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USA

US: If Obama Wins – Looking beyond the hope bubble

30 October 2008 Taiwo Hassan Soweto

A Nigerian view on the US Presidential elections

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Germany

Germany: Attempted exclusions from Left Party – update

30 October 2008 SAV, Berlin (Sozialistische Alternative, CWI in Germany)

One battle won, next battle to come

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Israel / Palestine

Israel-Palestine: Moving towards new conflict?

28 October 2008 Kevin Simpson

Negotiations amongst regional and world leaders cannot provide solutions to the problems of the Israeli and Palestinian working and middle classes.

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ARCHIVE | Pakistan

Pakistan: Pakistani Women, religious extremism and traditions

27 October 2008 Rukhsana Manzoor Socialist Movement of Pakistan (CWI in Pakistan)

Five women shot, wounded and buried alive

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World Economy

World Economy: The October crisis

27 October 2008 Lynn Walsh

Global economic downturn gaining momentum

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ARCHIVE | ChinaWorker.info was the CWI section in China, Honk Kong and Taiwan until 2019

China: Economy losing steam; workers losing jobs and wages

25 October 2008 Vincent Kolo, from chinaworker.info

Millions face being thrown out of work in Guangdong province

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Our activity

World Relations: The ‘US empire’ after Bush

24 October 2008 Tony Saunois

What will US foreign policy be after the election?

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Germany

German: Marxists under attack from Left Party leader

24 October 2008 Sascha Staničić

SAV members are denied membership in Left Party

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

Ireland: Pensioners’ revolt – government forced back

23 October 2008 Reporter from the Socialist Party (CWI in Ireland)

Backlash against government’s attack on the elderly

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Britain

Britain: Keynesianism now trumpeted

23 October 2008 Editorial

Return of state intervention

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Pakistan: PPP strengthens its grip on power but country plunged into crisis.

23 October 2008 Khallid Bhatti, Socialist Movement Pakistan (SMP, CWI in Pakistan), Lahore.

Urgent need of a mass working class party

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Italy

Italy: Mass movement to stop education cuts

21 October 2008 Linda Schuetz, Lotta per il socialismo, (CWI Italy)

General strike needed to unite struggles against Berlusconi

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Britain

Britain: Workers’ anger and bitterness towards financiers as economy enters recession

20 October 2008 Peter Taaffe

After recent turmoil, can taxpayers’ £400 billion prevent a worsening crisis?

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

Belgium: 6 October – national day of action

17 October 2008 Els Deschoemacker, LSP-MAS (CWI Belgium)

Warning to bosses and government!

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Ukraine

Ukraine: Prime Minister Tymoschenko blocks President Yushchenko’s early election

15 October 2008 Niall Mulholland

Former ‘Orange Revolution’ allies in fierce power struggle

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Britain

Britain: Government bailouts – Measures to prop up capitalism

14 October 2008 Editorial

Crushing condemnation of neo-liberal agenda

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

Ireland: Re-nationalise Aer Lingus

14 October 2008 Councillor Clare Daly, Socialist Party (CWI Ireland), from the Socialist, October issue

Defend decent jobs and conditions

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

Australia: Socialist Party local election campaign launched

13 October 2008 socialistworld.net

Steve Jolly fights to retain Yarra Council (Melbourne) seat

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Canada

Canada: Federal elections this week, as economic crisis deepens

13 October 2008 Clare Hudson, British Columbia, Canada CWI

Opposition social democratic-NDP ‘fighting talk’ but no alternative

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Iceland

Iceland: Victim of casino economy

10 October 2008 Per-Ake Westerlund (Rattvisepartiet Socialisterna -CWI in Sweden)

“God bless Iceland” – slogan at demonstration

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World Economy

world economy: Market meltdown – capitalists in crisis

10 October 2008 Robert Bechert

Build socialist alternative

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World Economy

world economy: Market meltdown – capitalists in crisis

10 October 2008 socialistworld.net

Statement by Nouriel Roubini

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Ireland North

Northern Ireland: UNISON union expels socialist activist

9 October 2008 Peter Hadden

Re-instate Pat Lawlor!

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Nigeria

Nigeria: DSM Socialist School 2008

9 October 2008 Peluola Adewale

Deepening Socialist ideas in a period when capitalism is in crisis

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World Economy

World Economy: Wall Street Crash 2008

9 October 2008 Jared Wood

Is the US economy also heading for a ‘lost decade’?

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Britain

Britain: Casino capitalism’s crisis continues

9 October 2008 Editorial

Britain highly vulnerable to coming recession

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World Economy

World Economy: Wall Street Crash 2008

9 October 2008 Peter Hadden

Global Capitalism in Crisis

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Austria

Austria: Far Right makes big gains – Left vote squeezed

7 October 2008 Laura Rafetseder, Sozialistische Linkspartei (SLP - CWI Austria)

As economic crisis hits, workers’ movement needs socialist alternative

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

Brazil: Ruling party maintains base in municipal elections

7 October 2008 Marcus Kollbrunner, Socialismo Revolucionário (CWI in Brazil)

Economic storm-clouds threaten tumultuous change

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Germany

Germany: Year-old Left Party third in polls

6 October 2008 Holger Dröge, Sozialistische Alternative (SAV – CWI Germany)

Capitalist crisis shows need for bold socialist policies and campaigning

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France

France: “Your strike is our strike…”

6 October 2008 socialistworld.net

A message of support and solidarity from French Airbus workers to striking Boeing workers. Video.

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World Economy

World Economy: Credit crunch

3 October 2008 socialistworld.net

Video interview with Peter Taaffe, General Secretary of the Socialist Party, cwi in England and Wales

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

Ireland: Government’s 500 billion euros banks guarantee

2 October 2008 Joe Higgins, Socialist Party (CWI Ireland)

Banks should be taken into public ownership – Not have their greed underwritten

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South Africa

South Africa: Mbeki dismissed by ANC as president of SA…

1 October 2008 Weizmann Hamilton

Africa’s oldest liberation movement headed for split

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