Google worker, San Francisco Bay Area, Author at Socialist World Media

Walk-out against sexual harassment at Google

November 2, 2018 Google worker, San Francisco Bay Area

#MeToo hit the tech world as hundreds, possibly thousands, of Google employees, led by women, organized a historic walkout from work on November 1 at 11:10 AM. Spurred by a October 25 New York Times […]

Taiwan: 137,000 march on Pride demonstration

November 1, 2018 International Socialist Forward (CWI in Taiwan)

On 27 October, 137,000 people marched in Taiwan’s capital in the 16th annual Taipei Pride demonstration. The number of participants broke the record in Taiwan, making the demo once again the biggest LGBT+ demonstration in […]

Pittsburgh Tree of Life Synagogue shootings – Unite to fight anti-Semitism and far-right

October 31, 2018 Pittsburgh Socialist Alternative

On Saturday morning, 27 October, a man shouting anti-Semitic slogans opened fire at the Tree of Life Synagogue in the historically Jewish Squirrel Hill neighbourhood, in Pittsburgh. Eleven people were killed during the morning shabbat […]

Union rally brings Melbourne to a standstill

October 30, 2018 Kat Galea, Socialist Party (CWI Australia)

For the second time this year, workers took to the streets in a massive show of collective strength. The 23 October rally saw more than 100,000 people bring central Melbourne to a standstill, demanding that […]

Parliamentary coup in Sri Lanka

October 29, 2018 Siritunga Jayasuriya, United Socialist Party (CWI Sri Lanka)

Sri Lanka is experiencing a dramatic constitutional crisis – an unprecedented parliamentary coup. It has seen the president – Maithripala Sirisena – break his coalition with Ranil Wickramasinghe, suspend parliament and appoint the former dictator/president […]

Jean Swanson elected to Vancouver City Council – A victory for the ‘City We Need’

October 26, 2018 Bill Hopwood and Leslie Kemp, Socialist Alternative (CWI Canada), Vancouver

Jean Swanson’s election to Vancouver City Council is a step toward a ‘political revolution’ in Vancouver city, British Colombia (BC), Canada. News of this historic victory is already rippling around Canada and further afield. Swanson […]

Sri Lanka’s plantation workers take action

October 25, 2018 Neelakandan T K, CWI Bangalore

“Our Corpses were the Fertilisers for your Tea Plantations…The Hot Teas you sip in your Mornings were Strewn with our Blood” (lines from the Tamil Nadu poet, Aadhavan Deetchinya) The town of Nuwara Eliya, in […]

Czech workers flex industrial muscle as economy grows

October 25, 2018 Petr, Socialistická alternativa Budoucnost, Prague

In April 2018, the number of available jobs was for the first time more than the number of (officially) unemployed people in the Czech Republic. Unemployment, according to September figures, stands below one quarter of […]

Scotland: Glasgow’s equal pay uprising shows power of working class

October 25, 2018 Matt Dobson, Socialist Party Scotland (CWI)

Around 8,500 Glasgow working class women made history on 23-24th October, when they took industrial action. As the BBC news commented, it was the “one of the biggest ever strikes in the UK on the […]

Kazakhstan: Freed political prisoner, Vadim Kuramshin, determined to fight on

October 22, 2018 Clare Doyle, CWI

On 16 August this year, after a term of six and a half years in Kazakhstan’s nightmare penal system, human rights lawyer, Vadim Kuramshin, walked free. His first words to the Committee for a Workers’ […]