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Month: August 2011

History & Anniversaries

US: 75th anniversary of 1936 auto sit down strikes

August 21, 2011 By John Gallup, Seattle, <a href="http://www.socialistalternative.org">Socialist Alternative (CWI supporters in the US)</a>

When workers shut down GM

USA

US: Teamster leadership betrays Union Drive at FedEx Ground

August 20, 2011 Interview with a FedEx Worker, by <a href="http://www.socialistalternative.org/news/article14.php?id=1664">SocialistAlternative.org</a>, website of the CWI supporters in the US

SocialistAlternative.org interviewed a package handler, "Steven" at FedEx in Brockton, Massachusetts, who led a union drive with his co-workers.

History & Anniversaries

20 years on: Attempted putsch in the Soviet Union

August 20, 2011 Clare Doyle, International Secretariat of the CWI

Attempted Stalinist counter-revolution speeds up capitalist counter-revolution

Australia

Australia: Coalition attacks public sector workers in New South Wales

August 19, 2011 <a href="http://www.socialistpartyaustralia.org/">Socialist Party (CWI Australia)</a>

Premier of New South Wales (NSW) want to "take on" public sector

Britain

Britain: Tell the TUC – call a 24-hour public sector general strike!

August 18, 2011 Rob Williams, Chair NSSN, from <a href="http://www.socialistparty.org.uk/issue/682">the Socialist</a>, paper of the <a href="http://www.socialistparty.org.uk">Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)</a>

National Shop Stewards Network (NSSN) is organising a lobby of this year’s TUC (Britain’s trade union confederation) conference in London, 11 September

Kazakhstan

Ireland: Report from Protest in Solidarity with Kazakh Oil Strikers

August 18, 2011 Paul Murphy, MEP, <a href="http://www.socialistparty.net/">Socialist Party (CWI Ireland)</a>

A protest took place in Dublin on the 12th of August in solidarity with striking oil workers in Kazakhstan who are engaged in a 3 month long strike against Kazmuniagas.

India

India: Bangalore garment workers woes and challenges ahead

August 17, 2011 Deepa Girish, women garment worker and activist, Bangalore, India; first published in Dudiyora Horaata, paper of New Socialist Alternative (CWI India)

The life of half a million garment workers in Bangalore is nothing but a hellish existence.

Hong Kong

Hong Kong: Right of abode conflict – a socialist standpoint

August 16, 2011 Socialist Action reporters in Hong Kong, <a href="http://www.chinaworker.info">chinaworker.info</a>

Fight racism • United struggle needed against neo-liberalism and capitalism

Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan: ‘Evidence’ fabricated against opposition leaders Ainur Kurmanov and Esenbek Ukteshbaev

August 15, 2011 CWI reporters, Kazakhstan

Prisoners’ campaigner, Vadim Kuramshin, arrested twice in 3 days

Britain

Britain: Con-Dems to blame for anger of youth

August 15, 2011 Judy Beishon, <a href="http://www.socialistparty.org.uk">Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)</a>

Mass, trade union-led response needed

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