February 2009 | Committee for a Workers International

History: Iran 1979: A revolution that was taken from the working class

02/27/2009 Chris Moore

Why did counter-revolution triumph instead?

Ireland: Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU) ballots for 30 March general strike

02/26/2009 Michael Murphy, Socialist Party (CWI Ireland)

Scrap the ‘pension levy’ – Make the bankers, speculators and big business pay for the crisis!

Guadeloupe: General strike in the French-speaking Caribbean

02/26/2009 Virginie Pregny

The workers of Guadeloupe and Martinique are showing the way!

Ireland: Over 100,000 workers demonstrate against government cuts

02/24/2009 Kevin McLoughlin, Socialist Party (CWI Ireland), Dublin

For united action of all workers to defeat government!

Kashmir: Health workers force government to accept demands!

02/24/2009 Jamal Khan, CWI in Kashmir

But further struggle will be needed

Bolivia: Approval of the new constitution opens up a new political chapter

02/24/2009 Adam Ziemkowski, Alternativa Socialista Revolucionario (CWI in Bolivia)

Masses must move on to struggle for socialism!

Guadeloupe: Massive general strike intensifies

02/23/2009 CWI

Solidarity demonstrations across France

CWI Analysis: How to fight the economic crisis

02/23/2009 Peter Taaffe

Capitalist crisis, mass consciousness and a socialist programme

CWI Latin American School: The Importance of Indigenous movements in Latin America

02/23/2009 CWI reporter

Report from school’s final day

Britain: Meeting on Lindsey oil refinery dispute – Workers strike back

02/20/2009 Socialist Party reporters (CWI in England & Wales)

Fighting trade union leadership needed

Ireland: Thousands rally against attacks on public sector workers

02/19/2009 Socialist Party reporters (CWI in Ireland)

Overwhelming vote for strike action

Kashmir: Health Workers’ Strike Action

02/19/2009 Jamal Khan, CWI, Kashmir

Government of Pakistani occupation threatens to crush strike

Israel: Election results indicate the deepening political crisis

02/18/2009 Shahar Ben-Khorin, Maavak Sozialisti, (CWI in Israel)

Another unstable government guaranteed

CWI Latin American school: Bolivia and Venezuela

02/18/2009 Sascha Stanicic, CWI, reporting from Brazil

Where are they going?

Latin America: CWI School – Sunday report

02/18/2009 Nikos Anastasiadis, CWI, reporting from Brazil

Discussions on capitalist oppression and the socialist alternative

Guadeloupe: General strike gathers force and spreads

02/18/2009 Interview with Jean Claude Tormin (Guadeloupe trade unionist) by Virginie Prégny, Gauche révolutionnaire, CWI in France

Neglect and discrimination behind explosion of anger

Middle East: A witness to the Gaza slaughter

02/17/2009 Socialist Struggle Movement (CWI in Israel)

Israeli residents “used as trading cards”

Latin America: 2nd CWI Latin American school

02/17/2009 Pablo Alderete reports from Brazil

Building the forces of Marxism in a new period

Italy: Mass strike and demonstration

02/17/2009 Chris Thomas, Lotta (CWI in Italy)

Public and private sector unite in angry mood

Costa Rica: Urgent solidarity action for trade unionists

02/16/2009 Victor Leon (CWI Costa Rica)

Workers’ leaders victimised

France: January’s general strike first but not last response to Sarkozy

02/16/2009 Leïla Messaoudi

New Anti-capitalist Party can grow fast with clear socialist policies

Britain: Support Yahya al Faifi!

02/13/2009 CWI

Saudi Trade Union dissident facing deportation

Sweden: The bin strike – a victory for all workers

02/13/2009 Elin Gauffin, Rattvisepartiet Socialisterna (CWI in Sweden)

Militant action gets results

Britain: Bankers’ bonuses – daylight robbery!

02/12/2009 Peter Taaffe

Take the banks into full public ownership and control

Scotland: Vendetta continues against socialist fighter

02/12/2009 Philip Stott, International Socialists (CWI in Soctland)

Defend Tommy and Gail Sheridan!

Ireland: Waterford Crystal – workers, united, will never be defeated

02/11/2009 Kevin McLoughlin, Socialist Party (CWI in Ireland)

An example to all workers

Australia: Bushfires

02/10/2009 Anthony Main, Socialist Party (CWI Australia), Melbourne

A disaster worsened by capitalism

Ukraine: Kherson Factory occupied

02/10/2009 Vika A and Aleksei A (CWI in Crimea)

Workers demand control!

US: Interest in socialism surging

02/09/2009 Dan DiMaggio

Marx on the cover of time magazine in Europe – Capitalism losing legitimacy

Britain: Construction workers’ strike scores victory at Lindsey oil refinery

02/07/2009 Bill Mullins

Lessons of the dispute

Guinea: Africa’s latest coup

02/06/2009 Segun Sango

What will it mean for the poor masses?

Ireland: State ‘defence forces’ refuse to be used against workers

02/06/2009 Article by Conor Lally, from the Irish Times, Wednesday 5 February

New period of struggles opens up

Britain: Lindsey refinery, Workers show their strength

02/05/2009 Alistair Tice, Socialist Party, reporting from the Lindsey refinery strike

Strikes repel attacks on jobs and conditions

Britain: Oil refinery and power station strikes

02/05/2009 Editorial

Firm strike leadership gains results

Sri Lanka: United Socialist Party candidate and campaigners remanded on trumped up charges

02/05/2009 Srinath Perera=

Appeal for protests as pro-government thugs are used yet again to silence opposition

Ireland: Mass unemployment returns to Ireland

02/04/2009 Socialist Party (CWI Ireland) leaflet

Don’t bailout the bankers – Nationalise Dell & Waterford Crystal!

Iceland:: Protest at NATO meeting

02/03/2009 Kristofer Lundberg in Reykjavik

"Snowballs are lighter than bombs!"

Middle East: Dubai financial city becomes ghost town

02/03/2009 Tamer Mahdi, CWI in Lebanon

Arab summit sees nothing on offer for working people and poor

Sri Lanka: Catastrophe in the north

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Spoil Sri Lankan government’s ‘Freedom Day’ celebrations!

Ireland: Hundreds of workers occupy Waterford Crystal plant

02/02/2009 Kevin McLoughlin, Socialist Party, reporting from Waterford

Nationalisation a necessity!

Britain: What’s really behind the Lindsey Oil Refinery strike

02/02/2009 Keith Gibson (personal capacity) G.M.B. (general union) - elected onto unofficial strike committee

Strike action spreads – defend rights, wages and conditions!

Britain: Strikes spread throughout refinery and power industry

02/02/2009 Alistair Tice

Demands proposed by Socialist Party supporters agreed by mass meeting

France: Millions strike against Sarkozy’s policies

02/02/2009 Alex Rouillard

Movement already larger than in 2006 and the beginning of the general strike of 1995

Ireland: Workers occupy Waterford Crystal plant

02/01/2009 Press release by Joe Higgins, Socialist Party, Dublin

Protect The Jobs: Nationalise Now!