Asia

’Communists’ defeated in Kerala as well as West Bengal

16th June – Day of Solidarity!

Strikes spread – solidarity action needs to be stepped up

Rajapakse regime shoots peaceful workers

But strikers’ lawyer Natalia Sokolova remains under arrest

Tamil representatives, solidarity and human rights campaigns and individual activists converged on the European parliament on Wednesday (1 June)

Hundreds detained and beaten – Natalia Sokolova still missing – Urgent solidarity needed

Lawyer arrested, new address for solidarity messages needed

What started as a hunger strike by a relatively small number of oil workers in the town of Karazhanbasa in West Kazakhstan last week has now turned into a mass strike – now over fifteen […]

But resistance grows – oil workers strike

Tamil Solidarity exposes the arrogant way Rajapaksa answers the UN report

Unless the trade unions take control of allcoating aid and assistance, the preferences will only end up lining the pockets of the corrupt Pakistani ruling class.

The CWI supports the struggle of Tamil Solidarity and others for the rights of all workers and oppressed people in Sri Lanka.

Socialist Party MEP speaks

The 10 day pilot strike that has rocked the troubled national carrier – Air India has ended with a partial victory of sorts for the pilots

‘Kazakhstan 2012’ becomes ‘Socialist Movement Kazakhstan’

Two months after the beginning of the Fukushima disaster, the anger in Japan is growing

The US government has announced a successful military assault on a large mansion in Abbottabad, near Islamabad, which has resulted in the killing of Osama Bin Laden.

Ainur Kurmanov hospitalized.

What is the way forward now?

Paul Murphy questions EU Trade Commissioner Karel de Gucht on the worsening situation in Pakistan after last year’s flooding, the role of speculation in food prices and its impact on the poor

Opposition activist released after international protest campaign

Lively pickets in Berlin and Stockholm

Picket in Central Almaty in support of Esenbek Ukteshbayev

The earthquake off Japan’s east coast and the giant tsunami wave that followed on 11 March has, at the time of writing, officially killed over 8,500 people with another 13,000 people still missing.

Opposition activist Esenbeck Ukteshbayev jailed – Call for protest pickets on 28 March

No to national unity on the bosses’ terms

On Sunday 20 March protesters marched from Hong Kong’s Chater Garden to the city’s Japanese Consulate. “Against nuclear power,” they chanted, and “be active, not radioactive” followed by a big cordon of TV crews and […]

Now is the time to demand re-nationalisation

Tragedy for workers

Step up protests over arrests and fines

Many arrested, seven, including Esenbek Ukteshbaev, get 15 days imprisonment

Rebuilding should not serve the interests of private developers

Capitalist system incapable of facing up to natural disasters

Opposition protest movements call for boycott of dictator’s fake poll

“Biggest political crisis since 2003”

The genocidal war in the north and east of Sri Lanka, which ended in May 2009, has created more than 68,000 widows. On the other hand, there are another 30,000 widows in the southern part […]

Extraordinary stand against the brutal state and draconian powers

Protests focus on migrants’ rights – abuse and torture of Indonesian migrants abroad

Women, especially working class women, have many reasons to be angry with how society is run today.

Four-day strike called off. Government accepted all three demands

4,500 sacked workers reinstated

Stand off continues as workers’ siege of company headquarters enters third day

Radical political force dealt a serious blow • Pro-Beijing camp jubilant

Religion, politics and the working class

20,000 jobs under threat – protesting workers forced the authorities to retreat

Protesting port workers of Port Qasim in Karachi walked out and effectively took over the port on 17th of January.

Protest against ’referendum’ on suspending presidential elections until 2020