Month: February 2011

Economic, social and political situation becoming explosive

Joe Higgins and Clare Daly (Socialist Party, CWI Ireland) elected to the Dail (Irish Parliament) along with up to 3 other candidates from the United Left Alliance. Further results to follow

Public sector general strike in Wisconsin

Protests against government biggest since January 14

IN THE space of one month, the way young people are viewed by the mass media – and by themselves – was turned upside down.

General strike in Iranian-Kurdistan

Protests continue in Kurdistan

“The president wants to get rid of the people!”

Prime Minister Gillard: “Tough choices” making working people pay for the clean up

To fully succeed, revolutions need to go beyond framework of capitalism

Brutal attacks and repression fail to stop demonstrations

Build for a state-wide, one-day public sector general strike!

“Act now – protest to Greek authorities”

The Egyptian February – class conflict sharpens

Dramatic changes have affected Britain. The student protests of last year set the scene. Now the prospect of significant industrial action against savage public-sector cutbacks is on the agenda.

Hawamdiya Sugar Factory Protest

New voters’ registration for election in April: Same old organisational and political problems

Protests in Iraqi-Kurdistan and across Sunni and Shia areas

Week of escalating worker’s actions

Joe Higgins questions the EU commission on a possible ’renegotiation’ of EU/IMF austerity programme for Ireland

More than 400 bus drivers and conductors in strike action and sit-in over wages in China’s southern metropolis of Shenzhen

For an All-Out Mobilization. To stop Walker in his tracks!

Four-day strike called off. Government accepted all three demands

Socialist Party support increasing amongst working class

4,500 sacked workers reinstated

Authoritarian regimes in Middle East fear for their rotten rule

Class confrontations are challenging the regime and the whole system

Day of uprising inspired by Egypt

In Solidarity with the Egyptian Revolution

Army cannot guarantee democracy

Nest of social and political problems lie behind the country’s turmoil

¡Ninguna confianza en los jefes militares! ¡Por un gobierno de los representantes de los trabajadores, los pequeños agricultores y los pobres!

No trust in the military chiefs! For a government of the representatives of workers, small farmers and the poor!

Militants struggling to build fighting, independent unions

Joe Higgins received a very warm welcome to a packed hall in Dún Laoghaire

Socialistparty.net (website of the Socialist Party – CWI Ireland)spoke to Laura Waters, a shop steward and Laura Ashley striker who has just joined the Socialist Party

The massive 27% cut in central government funding to local authorities is having devastating consequences.

Decisive action needed to block reaction and complete revolution

Jonas Brännberg Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (CWI in Sweden) spoke to an exiled activist from Yemen about the situation.

Industrial action over pay, conditions and government-appointed union ‘leaders’

Regime faces intensified opposition protests

Four Socialist Party members were disciplined by Unison on trumped-up charges of racism, after producing a leaflet at the 2007 Unison conference, challenging the Standing Orders Committee (SOC) about ruling resolutions off the conference agenda.

Vital to build a mass party to realise aims of workers and small farmers

From CWI Sweden

New book on China’s environmental crisis

‘Week of Determination’ protests called

Economic crisis sees Pasok government and media scapegoat immigrants

New dimension to the resistance of the Greek masses