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Articles by Jonas Van Vossole, Lisbon, Portugal, Thursday 2 of May 2007

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

Portugal: May day 2007 – Seventy thousand demonstrators in Lisbon

May 4, 2007 Jonas Van Vossole, Lisbon, Portugal, Thursday 2 of May 2007

Demonstrators wanted "work, social justice and dignity"

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Malaysia

Malaysia: May day 2007 – May Day event in Johor Bharu

May 4, 2007 Report from Socialist Party of Malaysia (PSM), Kuala Lumpur

Party’s leaders called in for questioning

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Kashmir

Kashmir: May day 2007 – Employees Alliance Action committee organises Mayday rally in Rawalakot

May 4, 2007 Shakoor Azeem, CWI Kashmir, Kotli

Public sector workers threaten to strike from 7 May if agreement with government not honoured

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

US: Seattle students hold walkout against Iraq War

May 3, 2007 Philip Locker and Ramy Khalil, Youth Against War and Racism

School board under pressure to restrict military recruiters

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

Sweden: May day 2007 – Anti-government mood on May Day march

May 3, 2007 Per-Ake Westerlund, Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (RS, CWI Sweden), Stockholm

CWI Sweden launches new national petition

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Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka: May day 2007 – Best ever May Day for United Socialist Party

May 3, 2007 CWI

Campaign against war and oppression gets a boost

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

Russia: May day 2007 – Putin’s allies dominate official May Day rallies

May 3, 2007 Rob Jones, Socialist Alternative (CWI), Moscow

But socialist opposition makes impact

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Pakistan

Pakistan: May day 2007 – Workers want fightback by union leaders against neo-liberal policies of the military

May 3, 2007 Khalid Bhatti, International secretary, TURCP

Trade Union Rights Campaign Pakistan (TURCP) organised and participated in activities across Pakistan in more than 40 towns and cities.

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Nigeria

Nigeria: May day 2007 – Free arrested activists now!

May 3, 2007 Victor Osakwe, Secretary

Dagga Tolar and other Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI Nigeria) members detained by State security service

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Lebanon

Lebanon: May day 2007 – Workers’ Unity – Only Way to end War & Poverty!

May 3, 2007 CWI

The following CWI leaflet was distributed in Arabic in Beirut on Mayday

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ARCHIVE | Liberdade, Socialismo e Revolução was the CWI section in Brazil until 2019

Brazil: Mayday 2007 – Uniting the left against neoliberal attacks in São Paulo

May 3, 2007 Marcus Kollbrunner, Socialismo Revolucionário (CWI Brazil), São Paulo

Five thousand march to link all the struggles of the oppressed

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

Belgium: Mayday 2007 – Committee for Alternative Politics (CAP) starts its election campaign!

May 3, 2007 Els Deschoemacker, LSP/MAS, Brussels

Social democratic leaders forced to pose as more left wing as a result

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

Portugal: Liberty-day leads to police repression against anti-fascists

May 2, 2007 Jonas Van Vossole, Alternativa Socialista, CWI Portugal, Lisbon

Portuguese government protects the extreme right

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Nigeria

Nigeria: Free arrested activists now

May 2, 2007 Socialistworld.net

Dagga Tolar and other Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI Nigeria) members detained by State security service

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India

India: Brutal face of India’s boom

May 2, 2007 Peter Taaffe, General Secretary, Socialist Party

This is an introduction to an Indian edition of the book Marxism in Today’s World

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

Ireland: Socialist Party takes on political establishment

May 1, 2007 Stephen Boyd, Socialist Party, Dublin

General election called for 24 May

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Pakistan

Pakistan: Musharraf hangs on while poverty and oppression multiplies

May 1, 2007 Tony Saunois, CWI Secretary, London

Ruling elite divided with no immediate alternative

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Scotland

Scotland: Packed rally for Solidarity in run up to election

May 1, 2007 Tom Penman, International Socialists (CWI Scotland )

Response shows clear socialist ideas can win support

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May Day

May Day 2007: Build a socialist alternative to war, poverty and exploitation

April 30, 2007 CWI statement

The Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI) and socialistworld.net send warm May Day greetings to the workers, youth and oppressed of the world. May Day stands for international solidarity, struggle and socialism. Socialists, trade unionists, […]

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Bolivia

Bolivia: Right-wing Bolivian secessionists use gas conflict to destabilize the Morales government

April 28, 2007 Johannes Ullrich, cwi Bolivia, Cochabamba

The need for the natural gas reserves to be fully nationalised under workers’ control becomes ever more obvious.

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

Ireland: Socialist MP condemns “Alice in Wonderland” government policies

April 27, 2007 socialistworld.net

Nurses and mortgage holders hit by rising inflation as election looms.

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Scotland

Scotland: Scottish Parliament election – support for Labour falling

April 26, 2007 Jim McFarlane, International Socialists, Dundee

Elections for the Scottish Parliament and local councils are to be held on 3 May. Most opinion polls are forecasting a big fall in support for New Labour.

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Italy

Italy: Democratic Party launched

April 25, 2007 Christine Thomas, CWI Italy, Bologna

Conference marks final demise of once powerful Communist Party

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Nigeria

Nigeria: Election farce

April 25, 2007 Robert Bechert, CWI London.

Build a mass working class alternative!

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France

France: Record turn out sees Royal and Sarkozy go through to second round

April 24, 2007 Karl Debbaut, cwi, Monday 23 April 2007.

But neither offers anything to French workers except more cuts and attacks on living standards

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Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan: Court victory for socialist activist threatened with jail

April 24, 2007 Ainur Kurmanov, Alma-Ata

Judge rejects state prosecutor’s demands

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Russia

Russia: Yeltsin’s legacy – ‘wild’ capitalism across the former USSR

April 24, 2007 ClareDoyle, cwi

It is sickening for the impoverished working people of the ex-Soviet Union to see the praise being heaped on Boris Yeltsin, one time president of Russia, after his death from heart failure on Monday, 23 […]

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Quebec

Quebec: Elections see shake-up of political landscape

April 23, 2007 Andrew Messing, Socialist Alternative (CWI), Toronto

Big losses for ruling Liberals and pro-separatist Parti Québécois

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Nigeria

Nigeria: 2007 Elections – A Very Farcical Exercise

April 21, 2007 Statement by Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI Nigeria)

Decisive Action By Labour Needed Now!

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

Ireland: “I support nurses, just as I detest parasite speculators” – Joe Higgins, Socialist Party TD (MP)

April 20, 2007 Socialist Party, Ireland

Nurses take industrial action for decent wages and conditions

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France

France: Uncertainty about the result leads to anxiety amongst the ruling class

April 20, 2007 Alexandre Rouillard, Gauche révolutionnaire, cwi France, Friday 20 April 2007

First round of the presidential elections

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Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan: State procurer demands arrest and jailing of socialist

April 20, 2007 Rob Jones, Moscow

Urgent messages of protest needed!

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Nigeria

Nigeria: After the elections, what next?

April 19, 2007 Segun Sango, general secretary Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI Nigeria), Lagos

A scientific evaluation of all the factors and forces involved in the just concluded as well as the forthcoming elections has clearly shown that the working masses cannot expect a fundamental improvement in their living […]

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Nigeria

Nigeria: Urgent appeal to support socialist campaign against election rigging

April 19, 2007 socialistworld.net

The blatant rigging and falsification of Nigeria’s April 14 State Governorship and Assembly elections has helped plunge the country, Africa’s largest, into crisis.

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

Australia: Public opposes big business takeover of Qantas airline

April 18, 2007 Editorial of April edition of The Socialist (Socialist Party (CWI), Australia)

37,000 workers face threat to jobs, wages and conditions

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Chile

Chile: Social and political crisis threatens stability

April 17, 2007 Patricio Guzman, Socialismo Revolucionario (CWI Chile), Santiago

Movement from below opens the way to a crisis from above.

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India

India: Garment factories – a hell on earth

April 16, 2007 Nirmala Krishna, New Socialist Alternative (CWI India), Bangalore

One day in February this year, Ammu, a 25-year-old textile worker, was found hanged in the most suspicious circumstances.

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Venezuela

Venezuela: Will the trade unions have to give up their independence?

April 14, 2007 Karl Debbaut, CWI, London

Chávez issues ultimatum for joining the United Socialist Party of Venezuela(PSUV)

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Israel / Palestine

Israel: Sharp increase in Israeli workers’ struggles

April 13, 2007 Yaniv Schalka, Maavak Sotzialisti, Israel

But trade union leadership collude with the bosses to stab workers in the back

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Italy

Italy: Interview with Marco Verrugio of Marxist ‘Countercurrent’

April 12, 2007 socialistworld.net

"Berlusconi and Prodi – two sides of the same coin"

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

Ireland: Socialist MP, Joe Higgins, attacks Irish Prime Minister for visiting George Bush

April 11, 2007 socialistworld.net

Bertie Ahern, the Irish Prime Minister, recently visited the US and met with George Bush around the time of St Patrick’s Day.

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Nepal

Nepal: Maoist ministers sworn in

April 9, 2007 Per-Åke Westerlund, Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (CWI Sweden)

New government, but is it a "new Nepal"?

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Italy

Italy: Party of Communist Re-foundation conference

April 5, 2007 Christine Thomas, CWI Italy, Bologna

Fight to maintain a force capable of genuine anti-capitalist struggle

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Ukraine

Ukraine: President’s call for new elections denounced as “illegal” by Prime Minister

April 5, 2007 Rob Jones, Moscow

Once more, Orange and Blue political blocs clash

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India

India: Peasants massacred in West Bengal

April 4, 2007 Nirmala Krishna, New Socialist Alternative (CWI in India), Bangalore

Killings are ultimately the responsibility of the ‘Communist’ led state government.

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Ireland North

Ireland: “We won’t pay” say hundreds of demonstrators in Belfast

April 4, 2007 Peter Hadden, Socialist Party, Belfast

Sinn Fein and Democratic Unionist Party change position to supporting water charging now elections are over.

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Bolivia

Bolivia: High-Ranking MAS Officials Guilty of Corruption

April 3, 2007 Adam Ziemkowski, CWI-Cochabamba, Bolivia

Workers movement must fight for genuine accountability and socialist democracy

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Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe: Economic meltdown pushes masses to the edge

April 2, 2007 Wezimann Hamilton, Democratic Socialist Movement, Johannesburg

State thugs crackdown on protests

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Germany

Germany: “Left Unity” no step forward

March 31, 2007 Sascha Stanicic, Sozialistische Alternative (SAV, CWI Germany) and WASG National Council member

WASG and Left Party/PDS vote for merger

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Pakistan

Pakistan: Socialist Movement (CWI Pakistan) prepares for a year of stormy battles and instability

March 31, 2007 socialistworld.net

Second successful national congress held in Lahore

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