ARCHIVE | Socialist Alternative was the CWI section in the USA until 2019
US: Police Brutality and Community Rage in Anaheim – The Real World outside Disneyland
End police brutality, racial profiling, and other racist practices
Month: July 2012
ARCHIVE | Canada
Canada: Tory government attacks on all fronts
Anger against growing inequality and cuts to public services
Britain
Britain: Olympics G4S security debacle
Privatisation and ‘outsourcing’ fails again – For publicly owned and run services!
ARCHIVE | Socialist Alternative was the CWI section in Russia and the CIS until 2019
Russia: Moscow police round-up 6th May protesters
Protest to Russian Embassies!
Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan: Vadim Kuramshin, human rights’ activist, starts hunger strike
International protests to Kazak authorities urgently needed!
Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan: Zhanaozen workers strike demanding release of comrades from prison
2,000 Burgylai company workers cease work for two hours
Lebanon
Lebanon: Public sector workers take strike action
Teachers and other workers demand new pay scales
ARCHIVE | Controcorrente was the CWI section in Italy until 2019
Italy: Deepening social and political crisis
Huge opportunities for building new workers’ party
Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka: Anger against killing of Tamil political prisoner
Who killed Nimalaruban?
India
India: Maruti Suzuki workers’ struggle
100 workers arrested, over 1,200 police deployed in area
ARCHIVE | the Socialist Party was the CWI section in Australia until 2019
Australia: Hundreds of Toll Holdings workers’ on indefinite strike
Full union support needed to win dispute
Britain
Britain: London Olympics opening week
The greatest sporting, and money-making, show on earth The 2012 Olympic Games, held in London, will start with the ‘Opening Ceremony’ on Friday 27 July, watched by an estimated audience of 1 billion people around […]
Quebec
Quebec: Student strike movement reaches turning point
“Most powerful challenge to neo-liberalism” in North America
Europe
CWI Summer School: “Ungovernable” Europe enters economic depression
Greece and Spain to fore in Europe’s deepening political, economic and social crisis
Britain
Solidarity: British civil service trade union members support Spanish miners
International solidarity from PCS union group executive
ARCHIVE | ChinaWorker.info was the CWI section in China, Honk Kong and Taiwan until 2019
China: Economic crunch adds to regime’s woes
Overcapacity and rising debt burden limits government’s policy options
Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan: Vadim Kuramshin threatens hunger strike protest
Urgent appeal for prisoner rights campaigner
ARCHIVE | ChinaWorker.info was the CWI section in China, Honk Kong and Taiwan until 2019
Taiwan: Textile workers occupy Hualon Factory
Solidarity needed in fight to save jobs
Spain
Spain: Miners light up Madrid and show workers the way to struggle!
For a 48 hour general strike to bring down Rajoy government
Britain
Britain: Libor banking scandal exposes rotten system
For nationalisation of banks and financial institutions with democratic public ownership
Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan: Bloody, corrupt regime carries out massive repression against workers
Conditions for mass revolt maturing
Venezuela
Venezuela: 2012 – A crucial year for the Venezuelan working class
Elections will take place amid political polarization and economic uncertainty
ARCHIVE | Socialist Alternative was the CWI section in the USA until 2019
US: Socialist Alternative and Vote Sawant Campaign Condemn Police Repression of Occupy Seattle Activists
SWAT team armed with automatic weaponry raids home
Ireland North
Northern Ireland: NIPSA: Broad Left achieves important gains
Interview with NIPSA President Padraig Mulholland (personal capacity)
World Economy
CWI Summer School: A stormy period for the world economy and relations
Capitalist crisis and workers’ mass struggles take global dimensions
ARCHIVE | Netherlands
Netherlands: Socialist Party leads in polls ahead of September general election
Working class faces battle against cuts
ARCHIVE | Middle East & North Africa
Tunisia: Salafist rampages bring worst violence since last year
Interview with a revolutionary activist
ARCHIVE | Liberdade, Socialismo e Revolução was the CWI section in Brazil until 2019
Brazil: Economy slowing down
Contrary to official propaganda, Brazil’s economy is still vulnerable
ARCHIVE | Socialist Alternative was the CWI section in the USA until 2019
US: Lessons of the Defeat in Wisconsin
“Despite being faced with virtual decimation of the public sector unions, the union leadership shrank from wielding its most powerful weapon: the strike”
Egypt
Egypt: Muslim Brotherhood’s presidential candidate takes office
Working masses need independent policies and their own party
Britain
Britain: Jail the banksters! Nationalise the banks under popular democratic control
Editorial from The Socialist
Europe
Europe: ACTA defeated: victory against attacks on internet freedom
Big business agenda defeated by mass campaigning
ARCHIVE | Socialist Alternative was the CWI section in the USA until 2019
US: Occupy Homes: The Battle of 4404 Cedar Ave
Minneapolis anti-foreclosure movement confronts banks, politicians, and police
Video
Europe: Paul Murphy speaks out against ACTA on eve of crucial vote
“[S]truggle for a society and an economy based on the free exchange of information, knowledge, and research for the benefit of all”
ARCHIVE | the Socialist Party was the CWI section in the Republic of Ireland until 2019
Europe: Why ACTA needs to be defeated
Keep up mobilizations to fight for internet freedom
Environment & Climate Change
Environment: 2012 earth summit
Why Rio+20 will cut no ice
Hong Kong
Hong Kong: Anniversary of return to Chinese rule marked by mass demonstration
Twice as many as last year protest lack of democracy and gross inequality in society