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Month: October 2011

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India

India: Maruti Suzuki strike ends

10/31/2011 Anand Kumar and Jagadish G Chandra, New Socialist Alternative (CWI in India)

But battles still to wage

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ARCHIVE | Socialist Alternative was the CWI section in the USA until 2019

US: Which way forward for the ‘Occupy’ movement

10/31/2011 Ty Moore, Socialist Alternative (CWI supporters USA)

What should the next step be for the ’Occupy’ movement

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

Australia: The one sided mining boom

10/30/2011 By Stephen Jolly, Socialist Party (CWI in Australia)

Review of “Too much luck” by Paul Cleary

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Chile

Chile: The crude strategy of Piñera’s government to discredit the students

10/29/2011 Celso Calfullan

New laws to repress social protest

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ARCHIVE | Middle East & North Africa

Tunisia: Ennahda’s breakthrough brings major change in political landscape

10/28/2011 CWI reporter in Tunis

Election ‘success story’ masks growing anger from below

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

Australia/Sri Lanka: Sri Lankan government under fire as President visits Australia

10/27/2011 CWI Reporters

Siritunga Jayasuriya, secretary of the United Socialist Party (CWI) Sri Lanka, has made a stinging public attack on the regime of Mahinda Rajapaksa while in Australia at the same time as the president.

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Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan: Armed attack on journalists covering oil workers’ dispute

10/27/2011 Socialist Resistance (CWI Kazakhstan) Reporters

Condemn brutal attack on media freedom, Solidarity needed!

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

Belgium: Nationalise the steel sector under workers’ control!

10/26/2011 Nicolas Croes, Parti Socialiste de Lutte/Linkse Socialistiche Partij (CWI in Belgium)

ArcelorMittal wants to close ‘liquid’ steelproduction in Liège. Workers resist, unions call for nationalisation.

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ARCHIVE | Socialist Alternative was the CWI section in the USA until 2019

USA: Urgent #OccupySeattle solidarity appeal

10/26/2011 Jordan Martinez, Socialist Alternative (CWI supporters US)

Let #OccupySeattle stay at Seattle Central Community College!

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

Europe: EU Austerity laws passed

10/26/2011 Paul Murphy MEP, Socialist Party (CWI Ireland)

“Six pack” rules institutionalise austerity across the EU

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

Belgium: 10,000 youth protest on 15 october in Brussels

10/25/2011 Boris Malarme and Mathias Vander Hoogerstraete PSL/LSP (CWI in Belgium)

Clear opening for radical ideas developing

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Libya

Libya: Gaddafi Dead – What now?

10/25/2011 Robert Bechert

Independent action by Libyan workers, youth and poor vital to prevent revolution’s derailment

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Austria

Austria: Metal Workers’ wage agreement

10/24/2011 Laura Rafetseder (SLP, CWI Austria)

Strike action wins concessions – but 4.2% is not enough!

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Malaysia

Malaysia: Effects of global crisis felt in Asia

10/24/2011 Raviechandren

Malaysian economy enters difficult period

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Europe

Eurozone: Lost in Euroland

10/22/2011 Robert Bechert

Eurozone crisis deepens

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ARCHIVE | Xekinima was the CWI section in Greece until 2019

Greece: 48-hour general strike sees biggest workers’ protests in decades

10/21/2011 Andreas Payiatsos, <a href="http://www.xekinima.org/">Xekinima</a> (CWI Greece), Athens

All out occupations and strikes! Kick out the Pasok cuts government! For a revolutionary government of the workers and poor!

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

Australia: ‘Occupy Melbourne’ savaged by riot police

10/21/2011 Kirk Leonard, Socialist Party (CWI in Australia)

Brutal assault as protesters hold their ground and block city streets

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Solidarity

India: Suzuki workers occupy factory

10/20/2011 Socialistworld.net

Thousands take solidarity action

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Britain

Britain: Protesters target ‘Kazakhstan Business Forum’ London event

10/20/2011 <a href="http://www.socialistparty.org.uk">Socialist Party (CWI England and Wales)</a> Reporters

Stop state brutality in Kazakhstan!

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Italy

Italy: Huge demonstration of “Enraged” in Rome

10/20/2011 Giuliano Brunetti, ControCorrente (CWI supporters Italy)

Violence of a few used to try and curb growing opposition

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

Taiwan: “Smash capitalism” echoes inside biggest skyscraper

10/19/2011 Ka-chi Chou, Socialist Blog (CWI in Taiwan)

CWI Taiwan members make media splash

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ARCHIVE | Socialist Alternative was the CWI section in the USA until 2019

US: Mass Occupation Defeats Seattle Mayor and Police

10/18/2011 Patrick Ayers, Socialist Alternative (CWI supporters in the US)

Big Victory for Occupy Wall Street Movement

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ARCHIVE | Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna was the CWI section in Sweden until 2019

Sweden: Occupy Stockholm and Gothenburg

10/18/2011 Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (CWI Sweden) reporters

Anti-racist demo in Malmö

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Britain

Britain: November 30th one-day public-sector strike and beyond

10/18/2011 Peter Taaffe

Preparing for the showdown

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Spain

Spain/Portugal: Millions of ‘Indignados’ take to the streets on ‘15-O’

10/17/2011 Socialismo Revolucionario (CWI Spain) and Socialismo Revolucionario (CWI Portugal) Reporters

Build the mass resistance to austerity!

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Lebanon

Lebanon: General Labour Confederation leaders sell out workers

10/17/2011 Tamer Mahdi, Beirut, CWI Lebanon

Build for 19 October ‘independent’ unions’ strike!

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Austria

Austria: Metal Workers strike for wage increase of 5.5%

10/15/2011 Laura Rafetseder, <a href="http://www.slp.at/">Sozialistische LinksPartei</a> (CWI Austria)

Austrian working class gives impressive sign of life

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ARCHIVE | Xekinima was the CWI section in Greece until 2019

Greece: Brutal cuts provokes new wave of workers’ struggles

10/15/2011 Dimitris Pantazopoulos, <a href="http://www.xekinima.org/">Xekinima</a> (CWI), Athens

Strikes must be democratically controlled by rank and file

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Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka: United Socialist Party holds successful congress

10/15/2011 CWI reporter

“Difficult times – yet we are defiant and determined!”

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Our activity

15 October: The day of inter-continental resistance

10/15/2011 CWI leaflet

Break the power of the banks and multinationals! Fight capitalism – for a socialist alternative to the failed profit-driven system!

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Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka: Rajapaksa government buys its supporters

10/14/2011 Manny Thain, Secretary <a href="http://www.tamilsolidarity.org">Tamil Solidarity</a>, England and Wales

British Defence Secretary Fox in trouble

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ARCHIVE | Socialist Alternative was the CWI section in the USA until 2019

US: #OccupySeattle calls for “The Night of 500 Tents”

10/13/2011 Jordan Martinez, Seattle, <a href="http://www.socialistalternative.org">Socialist Alternative (CWI supporters US)</a>

600 to 800 students joined student strikes

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Hong Kong

Hong Kong: Protest against racism

10/13/2011 Dikang, <a href="http://www.chinaworker.info/en/content/news/1604/">Socialist Action</a> (CWI in Hong Kong)

Socialist Action protests against racist march • Recent anti-migrant propaganda originates from Government House

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Chile

Chile: Students defy government’s ban on demonstration

10/11/2011 CWI and Socialismo Revolucionario (CWI in Chile) reporters

Riot police attack students demonstrating at Presidential Palace, general strike called in response

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ARCHIVE | Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna was the CWI section in Sweden until 2019

Sweden: Kazakhstan workers’ leaders in Stockholm

10/11/2011 From report by Arne Johansson in Offensiv, weekly paper of Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (CWI in Sweden)

‘A life and death struggle’

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Israel / Palestine

Palestine: Abbas UN statehood bid and the views of Palestinians

10/10/2011 Aysha, CWI Lebanon

Hope, fear and the struggle for self-determination

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

Kazakhstan: Solidarity protest at football match in Brussels

10/10/2011 PSL/LSP (CWI in Belgium) reporters

Banners unfurled in support of workers and activists at Belgium vs Kazakhstan football match

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Comment & Analysis

Film review: Tinker tailor soldier spy

10/09/2011 Greg Randall

1973: London is drab, faded by economic decline. The optimism of the post-war boom is gone. The world is split into two opposed systems, the capitalist west and the planned economies of the east, dominated […]

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Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan: Socialist MEP “Persona non-grata”

10/08/2011 Video of Paul Murphy, Socialist Party (CWI in Ireland) MEP

Paul Murphy speaks in European Parliament against repression in Kazakhstan

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ARCHIVE | Socialist Alternative was the CWI section in the USA until 2019

US: End the Dictatorship of Wall Street!

10/08/2011 Socialist Alternative (<a href="http://www.socialistalternative.org">CWI supporters in the US</a>)

How can we take the struggle forward?

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Britain

Britan: 90th anniversary of the struggle of Poplar against cuts

10/08/2011 Videos with Peter Taaffe and Tony Mulhearn

"Better to break the law than break the poor"

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

Hong Kong: Solidarity with ‘Occupy Wall Street’ movement

10/07/2011 Dikang, Socialist Action (CWI in Hong Kong)

Socialist Action organized demonstration to protest mass arrests in New York and other US cities

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World Economy

Eurozone: Endgame

10/07/2011 Lynn Walsh

Eurozone threatened by sovereign debt and banking crisis and compounded by near-zero growth

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Britain

Britain: Labour Party leader’s fruitless dreams of a ‘better capitalism’

10/06/2011 Editorial

The working class needs a new party

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

Ireland: Socialist Party candidate contests parliamentary by-election

10/06/2011 By Socialist Party (CWI in Ireland) reporters

Vote against government austerity

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

Kazakhstan: Kazakh oil workers heard in European Parliament

10/05/2011 Geert Cool, LSP/PSL (CWI in Belgium)

End attacks on lives and freedoms of worker activists!

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ARCHIVE | Socialist Alternative was the CWI section in the USA until 2019

US: Over 700 arrested on “Occupy Wall Street” march

10/05/2011 By Pete Ikeler, Socialist Alternative (CWI supporters USA)

Struggle continues despite police repression

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

Europe: Austerity locked-in with EU economic governance package

10/05/2011 Paul Murphy, MEP, Socialist Party (CWI Ireland), first published in the "Irish Left Revi

Implications of so-called "six-pack of economic governance measures", voted on in the European Parliament last week, are vast

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Britain

Britain: World economy in meltdown – we won’t pay for capitalist crisis

10/04/2011 Editorial

24 Hour Public Sector General Strike Now – Socialist Party placard, photo Paul Mattsson

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Scotland

Scotland: Thousands march and prepare to strike against cuts

10/04/2011 Socialist Party Scotland members (CWI in Scotland)

“People First” demonstration in Glasgow on 1st October

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Germany

Germany: Hospital workers’ strike enters fourth week

10/03/2011 Sascha Staničić

Solidarity urgently needed

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ARCHIVE | Socialist Alternative was the CWI section in the USA until 2019

US: Socialist Statement at Occupy Wall Street

10/03/2011 New York City branch, <a href="http://www.socialistalternative.org">Socialist Alternative</a> (CWI supporters, USA)

End the Dictatorship of Wall Street!

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ARCHIVE | Africa

Horn of Africa: Lives of millions hanging by a thread

10/03/2011 Cedric Gerome, CWI

Famine – another weapon of mass destruction

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ARCHIVE | Socialist Alternative was the CWI section in Russia and the CIS until 2019

Russia: Police detain campaigners for equal rights for women and LGBT community

10/01/2011 CWI Reporters, Moscow

UPDATE: 12 protesters released – Drop all charges and fines!

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Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan: “Kazakh strikers turn to OSCE”

10/01/2011 themoscownews.com

The Moscow News reports on heroic workers struggle

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

China: 284 injured in metro system’s “darkest day”

10/01/2011 chinaworker.info

Manic, uncoordinated and corrupt railway development plans need to be immediately and thoroughly checked and reconstructed under public and democratic control

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