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Working people need socialist alternative to warring oligarchs and outside powers

Only united working class action can secure lasting peace

Working people fearing all-out war

Only united working class action can stop the catastrophe

European business connives at suppression of democratic rights.

Union bureaucracy and ’left’ groups attack CWI’s solidarity with strikers

Government pushes “framework agreement” to tie the hands of workers

Striker’s daughter murdered…Arrest of Socialist activists threatened – solidarity campaign needs stepping up!

Hunger strikers douse themselves with petrol and threatened to set themselves alight

Further threats against strike leaders and supporters

Scientists estimate nuclear fall-out caused over 200,000 deaths

‘Voice of the Republic’ newspaper staff harassed and arrested

“Physical annihilation” threats against activists – Urgent protest action needed!

Step up international protests!

Harassment and threats will not stop struggle for prison and democratic rights

Urgent messages of protest needed!

Organised protest action shakes Kazakhstan authorities

For workers’ unity against pogroms and ruling elites!

Send urgent protests – For the immediate release of Socialist Resistance leader!

Economic crisis deepens and dangers of authoritarianism

Five years after ‘Orange Revolution’ “victory”: Elite factions struggle for riches, while working people suffer

Youth and workers need alternative to pro-market, ethnic-based parties

Please send protests!

Urgent messages of protest needed!

Once more, Orange and Blue political blocs clash

Neither ‘Orange’ nor ‘Grand’ coalition government solution for workers

Union rejects ‘deal’ – Finnish SAK (TUC) must act!

Despotic Karimov regime remains a tinder box. 4,200 words.

US-backed Karimov dictatorship unleashes bloodbath

The working masses need their own alternative

Karaganda union activists persecuted for fighting on behalf of unpaid workers

On Saturday 13 September 15 to 20,000 Trade Union members demonstrated in Prague. The protest was against an austerity package proposed by the government. These reforms were renamed by trade unionists as "deforms” as they […]

The weekly protests in Moscow city centre against Bush’s war are now gaining momentum. Socialisticheskoe Soprotivleniye (the Russian section of the CWI) once again headed the anti-war protests in Moscow on Saturday 5 April.

The Day X demonstration was big for Prague, but the second day of the war saw as many, if not more, out on the streets demonstrating. All the main political parties were there and all […]

Up to 2,500 people protested in Prague on Day X, which is a big step forward for the Czech anti-war movement.

Russian president Putin almost gloated on the TV after the attack on the twin towers in New York. He claimed that the US would now understand what the Russian state’s ‘war against terror’ in Chechnya […]

Moscow CWI comrades were instrumental in initiating and organising a youth march through the city centre on 15 February. In the biggest such demo for years over 300 participated, led by a mock coffin and […]

As "our" government supports every decision of the US administration, and former president Havel signed the letter of "eight", expressing complete support for the Bush-Iraq policy, people feel not just betrayed but angry. That is […]

On the 20 February, Saken Zhanusov and Rustem Zhanusov were sentenced to 3 years in Kazakhstan’s notorious prisons. Their comrade Ramil Mingazov, for reasons of health, was ordered to pay a large fine.

Towards the end of December 2002, CWI comrades in the CIS heard that the case of well known worker activists in Karaganda, Kazakhstan facing serious court charges (see previous reports) is coming to a conclusion. […]

At a special court hearing last Friday, a criminal court judge in Karaganda, Kazakhstan, suddenly decided that there were “no legal grounds” for holding workers’ leader, Saken Zhanusev, on remand (i.e. in prison) until his […]

At least one quarter of the Czech Republic was flooded last week after flash floods. 14 people died because of the disaster (some of them did not leave flooded houses, and one died when a […]

Results from last week’s parliamentary elections in the Czech Republic show that the social democrats (CSSD) won with 30.4%, followed by the communist party (KSCM) (18.8%), which is the highest vote for the KSCM since […]

Elections to the Verkhovnaya Rada (Ukrainian Parliament) last week have left workers with little to celebrate. Six parties (The Socialist Party, the Communist Party, the United Social Democratic Party, the United Ukraine block, the Our […]