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Month: August 2018

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América

Venezuela: La crisis social y económica golpea duramente al pueblo ¿Cuál es el camino para evitar la catástrofe?

August 31, 2018 Izquierda Revolucionaria • Venezuela

Después de cinco años de profunda crisis económica, con una reducción acumulada del PIB del 50% y una hiperinflación desbocada, el 20 de agosto el presidente venezolano, Nicolás Maduro, presentaba el llamado Plan de Recuperación […]

Asia

China: Solidaridad con la lucha de los trabajadores de Shenzhen Jasic Technology

August 30, 2018 Izquierda Revolucionaria

¡Libertad para Shen Mengyu y el resto de trabajadoras y trabajadores encarcelados!

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América

Estados Unidos: El informe de Pensilvania y las acusaciones contra el Papa

August 30, 2018 Ulises Benito – Esquerra Revolucionària País Valencià

“Ella me bajó las bragas. ‘Que esto sea una lección para todos ustedes’, dijo. Me puso sobre sus rodillas. Yo tendría unos 8 años. Ella me golpeó y me golpeó con un palo” (Testimonio del informe […]

Germany

Germany: Violent far right demonstrations in Chemnitz

August 30, 2018 Steve Kühne, Dresden

The pictures were shocking: Over five thousand rightists move through the city centre of Chemnitz, in the eastern German federal state of Saxony, last Monday, 27th August. Some of the crowd beat migrants, threw bottles […]

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Asia

Corea: Acuerdo de Trump con Kim Jong-un

August 29, 2018 Chinaworker.info

El presidente Donald Trump se reunió con el norcoreano Kim Jong-un el 12 de junio en Singapur. La cumbre fue catalogada de histórica. Trump, fiel a sus formas, parece que ha ido más allá de […]

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Europa

Estado español: Exhumar a Franco no es suficiente

August 29, 2018 Pablo Alcántara • Izquierda Revolucionaria Madrid

¡Depurar de franquistas el aparato del Estado! ¡Justicia para las víctimas de la dictadura!

Solidarity

Croatia: Solidarity with workers fighting privatisation

August 29, 2018 CWI reporters

Shipyard workers in the Croatian port cities of Pula and Rijeka started their strike action on 22 August. These militant workers are demanding the immediate payment of wage arrears. But they don’t stop there. After […]

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

Australia: PM Turnbull deposed, but political crisis set to continue

August 26, 2018 Editorial from The Socialist (magazine of the Socialist Party, CWI Australia)

Australia saw yet another change of prime minister in late August. After a week of high drama, the Liberal Party booted put prime minister Malcolm Turnbull from office and installed Scott Morrison in a ‘party […]

Comment & Analysis

Review: Parasitic capitalism exposed

August 24, 2018 Peter Taaffe, Socialist Party (CWI in England & Wales) general secretary

Mariana Mazzucato’s new book is a detailed exposé of the parasitic character of modern capitalism, drawing on Karl Marx’s theory of the source of value creation. But understanding the law of value is only a […]

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

China: Shenzhen Jasic Technology workers’ struggle at important turning point

August 24, 2018 chinaworker.info reporters

“Continue the struggle!” are the fighting words of Shen Mengyu in a letter smuggled out of her detention cell in Shenzhen, China. Readers will feel as if she is speaking directly to them and will […]

Britain

Britain: Antisemitism smears against Corbyn are battering ram of the right

August 23, 2018 Editorial from the Socialist, paper of the Socialist Party (CWI in England & Wales)

• Organise against the Blairites • International working class solidarity against all oppression and racism

Argentina

Argentina: Abortion rights bill falls but the struggle goes on

August 22, 2018 Maria Clara Ferreira, LSR (CWI in Brazil) reports from Buenos Aires

“The struggle for women’s lives has been painted green!”

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Video: China – solidarity with Jasic Technology workers struggle!

August 21, 2018 chinaworker.info

Below we publish a video produced by chinaworker.info on an important workers’ struggle taking place in Shenzhen, Southern China. Chinaworker.info appeal for solidarity action can be seen here. Please respond and share widely.  

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Britain

Britain: PCS union – the real issues at stake

August 21, 2018 Hannah Sell and Rob Williams, Socialist Party (CWI in England & Wales)

The dispute within the left of Britain’s largest civil service union raises key issues for the whole labour movement. Above all, the need for democratic, lay-member control of fighting trade unions. HANNAH SELL and ROB […]

Italy

Italy: Morandi bridge collapse – your profits are our dead

August 20, 2018 Giuliano Brunetti, Resistenze Internazionali (CWI in Italy)

Capitalist thirst for profits responsible

Israel / Palestine

Israel/Palestine: New protest against the Nationality Law

August 19, 2018 Yasha Marmer, Socialist Struggle Movement

■ Despite government-backed incitement, tens of thousands of Jews and Arabs march in the center of Tel Aviv to protest against the new law  ■ The accusation of a ‘Palestinian flag scandal’ is part of […]

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

China: Deepening crisis and mass resistance

August 13, 2018 Pasha, Socialist Action (CWI in Hong Kong)

Introduction to the Commission on China at the CWI School 2018 by Pasha of Socialist Action (CWI in Hong Kong)

Israel / Palestine

Israel/Palestine: Protest rally against the Nationality Law

August 10, 2018 Eyal Atsey-Pri and Shahar Benhorin, Socialist Struggle Movement, CWI in Israel-Palestine

• Rabin Square was filled again, this time as part of the ‘Druze rally’ against the Nationality Law • This was another blow to the government, despite the fact that the organisers also promoted right-wing […]

CWI

CWI Summer School : Europe – special features of economic and political volatility

August 9, 2018 Report by Matt Dobson, Socialist Party Scotland (CWI)

Report of second plenary session at the 2018 CWI School in Barcelona

CWI

CWI School 2018: World Perspectives

August 8, 2018 Kevin Parslow, Socialist Party (CWI in England & Wales)

10 years after 2007/8 crisis, capitalism has solved nothing

Britain

Britain: Jeremy Corbyn comes under renewed attack from Labour’s right

August 6, 2018 Claire Laker-Mansfield, Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales) executive committee

There is no rest for the wicked. British Prime Minister Theresa May had to cut short her Italian holiday to visit the French president, Emmanuel Macron, at his Mediterranean castle retreat.

Video

Video: Building the CWI around the world, 2018

August 3, 2018 CWI

Below is the video displayed at the 2018 CWI summer school in Barcelona, featuring the activities of CWI members and sections in various parts of the world. 

Catalonia

500-strong Barcelona rally for a ‘socialist Catalan republic’

August 2, 2018 Izquierda Revolucionaria (CWI in the Spanish state) Reporters

Over 500 people attended the international rally organised by Esquerra Revolucionaria (CWI in Catalonia), on 17 July, in defence of a Catalan Republic of workers and youth.

ARCHIVE | Socialismo Revolucionario was the CWI section in Portugal until 2019

Portuguese dockers strike against union busting

August 1, 2018 João Félix, Cardiff West Socialist Party and CWI Portugal

Portuguese dockers took strike action across all ports on Friday 27 July. They are fighting against widespread persecution and union busting in Portuguese ports, especially in Leixões and Caniçal (Madeira), where workers are being threatened […]

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