Asia

Who killed Nimalaruban?

100 workers arrested, over 1,200 police deployed in area

Urgent appeal for prisoner rights campaigner

Conditions for mass revolt maturing

Twice as many as last year protest lack of democracy and gross inequality in society

War criminal on the run!

In memory of Takhir Narimanovich Mukhamedzyanov

Strikers punished for state’s murderous attack on peaceful gathering of oil workers and families!

Tamils are outraged that Sri Lankan president, Mahinda Rajapaksa, has been invited to the British queen’s diamond jubilee celebrations.

Sign the e-petition now!

End this farcical trial of the human rights’ lawyer and drop all charges!

Third anniversary of slaughter of Tamil people by Sri Lankan army marked by protests all around the world

Workers’ organisations must ensure real change

Leader of the “Leave Peoples’ Homes Alone” campaign and member of the SMK, Larissa Boyar, and others have been released from prison

Campaign Kazakhstan reports that newspapers in Kazakhstan said a strike by miners at KazakhMys ended on 7 May with a complete victory for the workers.

Socialist organisations march to joint rally

Socialist Action (CWI) campaigning against the capitalist 1% and against racism

Solidarity needed to free Vadim!

Immediate protests and financial help needed

Committee for a Workers’ International representatives speak

Court hears new allegations of police planning for Zhanaozen massacre

Prison rights campaigner faces 7-15 years in jail

"Shout out the story as loud as you can"

Paul Murphy MEP denied visa to Kazakhstan – Nazarbayev regime scared of truth getting out about December 16 massacre of oil workers and their sympathisers.

Protest in response and release of the two shows potential for united struggle

15,000 join protest against the appointment of new leader C. Y. Leung as capitalist establishment is openly split

Appeal for international protests

Police detain Arman Ozhaubaev and claim his location ‘unknown’

Fight every move by the ruling classes to take away the little gains made by the working people

Campaign Kazakhstan: "Stop the frame-up of the Zhanaozen strikers!"

Solidarity Protest in Bangalore against Koodankulam Nuclear Power Plant

Successful demonstrations across Kazakhstan – now protest against fines and arrests of activists!

A blow to the regime but not enough

“Nazarbayev – blood on your hands!”

Outrageous anti-democratic sentence as establishment seeks to criminalise protests

But condemnation tempered by trade interests

Amnesty international and the British Channel 4 television channel reveal new material documenting the unpunished slaughter and ongoing oppression of Tamil people

But fails to condemn Nazarbayev regime

Regime under pressure from international campaign

Over 100 million workers take part

Workers and youth fierce struggles ahead

Mass struggle needed for genuine and fair elections and the end of tycoon rule

Full inquiries moved by Paul Murphy MEP and agreed

Kurmanov and Ukteshbayev speak out

Immediate support given by Bob Crow, rail-workers’ leader in Britain, Paul Murphy, MEP, from Ireland, Swedish trade union journalist and Australian Councillor, Steve Jolly

Urgent protests needed!

A big protest rally in freezing temperatures greeted the Kazakhstan president as he attended a meeting to strengthen relations with the German government and big business.

Urgent solidarity needed

Worldwide solidarity campaign means the Kazakhstan regime can no longer deny 16 December massacre

Whole continent on the verge of major social convulsions and political shocks

Release Vadim Kuramshin and all those arrested – End harassment of opposition activists!

16 December underlined the need for the workers’ movement to link economic demands to the struggle to bring down the regime

Nazarbayev regime cancels elections in city

Oppose nuclear power plants

Review – “The Party: The secret world of China’s Communist rulers”, by Richard McGregor, Allen Lane, 2010, £25

"A victory for workers anywhere is a victory for the workers everywhere!"

Russian press describe torture of detained oil workers & police reign of terror

New video shows riot police shooting unarmed protesters in Zhanaozen

More international solidarity and support

Campaign Kazakhstan demonstrates in Berlin and Cologne

Stalinist nightmare continues

18/12 22:05 LATEST UPDATE – WORKERS BEING TORTURED!

"European union must break off talks with Kazakhstan!"

UPDATE @ 22:30 GMT – Only united and extensive workers’ action can end this dictatorial regime

LATEST UPDATE 17:54 GMT Breaking News: Peaceful protesters & supporters of striking oil workers fired upon

Campaign Kazakhstan press statement and demands

Tamil Solidarity demands that Cameron reveals all his personal dealings with lobbying firm and show the concrete details of the measures he has taken in relation to war crimes in Sri Lanka

Wave of protests to Almaty prison authorities

Video footage of demonstration organised by Socialist Movement Pakistan (CWI Pakistan)

Solidarity needed! Demand Odisha government immediately releases Abhay Sahoo

Socialist Action (CWI) stands candidate for first time

Socialist Movement of Kazakhstan demands enquiry.

Protest this travesty of justice – Demand Georgii Epshtein’s immediate release!

Urgent support needed

Ten thousand signatures collected on oil-workers’ petition

For the past few weeks heavy rains in many parts of Tamil Nadu have once again brought hardship to the people causing damages to roads, bridges and inundating many low lying areas claiming 44 lives […]

Firm action needed to win all workers’ demands

Hundreds sign protest condemning Nazarbayev dictatorship and demanding democratic rights

But battles still to wage

Condemn brutal attack on media freedom, Solidarity needed!

Malaysian economy enters difficult period

“Difficult times – yet we are defiant and determined!”

British Defence Secretary Fox in trouble

Socialist Action protests against racist march • Recent anti-migrant propaganda originates from Government House

Paul Murphy speaks in European Parliament against repression in Kazakhstan

The Moscow News reports on heroic workers struggle

“I, Clare Daly, member of the Irish Parliament strongly condemn threats by the Kazakhstan authorities…” Socialist Party TDs add voices to international outcry

Hundreds of thousands displaced as flood worsens

Left-wing legislator and six others arrested and charged with ‘disorderly conduct’ after by-election protest

Crisis worsens, hundreds killed, millions affected

Police threats to arrest and jail Socialist Movement Kazakhstan leaders – urgent protest action needed!

Police interrogate Ainur Kurmanov and Esenbek Ukteshbayev for a total of 16 hours

Bring the campaign to trade unions and the Left!

Auto workers engaged in 21-day strike

International protest demands end of death penalty against Tamil activists

“What is Telia doing in Kazakhstan?”

Defeat and climbdown by government

A solidarity picket in defense of oppressed oil workers in Kazakhstan was held near the Consulate of the Republic of Kazakhstan and the headquarters of the firm ’Oil and Gas Exploration’, in Krakow on August […]

“I really hope more trade union organizations give support”

The life of half a million garment workers in Bangalore is nothing but a hellish existence.

Fight racism • United struggle needed against neo-liberalism and capitalism

Prisoners’ campaigner, Vadim Kuramshin, arrested twice in 3 days

The business-woman, Yingluck Shinawatra, sister of the controversial former prime minister, the tycoon Thaksin Shinawatra, was chosen by Thailand’s parliament as the country’s 28th prime minister on 5 August.

Hundreds sacked and union lawyer sentenced to six years in jail. Intransigent employer refuses negotiations. Now a striker murdered!

Inner-party struggles as repression tightened

Working class beginning to lose fear

Workers faced with jail and brutal repression – Solidarity urgently needed!Reprint of article from SIPTU union newsletter

PSM draws parallels with crackdown on Reformasi movement

Strike wave driven by one of the world’s highest inflation rates

The 13 day strike of over 2000 workers in the Maruti Suzuki India’s (MSI) Manesar plant in Gurgoan (Haryana), close to the national capital Delhi, in the first weeks of June is an important sign […]

Massive crackdown on opposition

The continuing struggle against caste oppression

“Hunger strikes, imprisoned workers and tens of thousands on strike represents a virtual picket line which I have no intention of crossing,” Sting said in an online statement.

Interview with Socialist Action (CWI) in Hong Kong after July 1 demonstration

‘Red Capitalism: The Fragile Financial Foundation of China’s Extraordinary Rise’

Government steps up attacks on democratic and human rights to maintain grip on power

State forces moved in to crush anti-POSCO struggle

Stop repression of striking oil and gas workers!

Strikes of oil and gas workers continue; other workers follow lead

’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

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

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?

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

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.

Parliament rubberstamps ‘referendum’ to postpone election until 2020

A thousand protests made worldwide against jailing of trade union and social activist

“For nearly a decade, economic collapse, worse in many countries than the depression of the thirties, with its associated crime waves, corruption and social degeneration devastated the region.”

‘Appeal’ hearing a travesty of justice

Real socialist alternative needed

“Social, economic and political crises are developing throughout Asia. They underline the vital importance of the CWI’s ideas and programme and the urgent task of developing the cadres for building future mass revolutionary parties.”

Textile Industry in India is the second largest employment generator after agriculture.

China’s growth shields region but economic, social and political crises loom

Strikes and protests by Bangladesh garment workers continue in the face of harsh repression by the state. Following the deaths of three strikers, shot down when police opened fire on demonstrators in Chittagong on 14 […]

No peace in sight for divided, militarised and unstable peninsula

Games Ridden with Corruption

Tamil people’s struggle for freedon and justice – beyond our borders

From the age of 10 years to their ripe old age, we find women not only slaving in their homes but also working in the houses of the wealthy & the middle classes as the […]

More than 1,000 teachers marched to Government House to protest plans to close 140 secondary schools (video clip)

Public protest Against Assault on Brother Philip Noronha

The garment industry in Bangalore with about 1200 registered units employing over a half a million workforce and one of the biggest sources of exports in the country, but hardly is there any mention in […]

Struggle against brutal army oppression intensifies

Moscow News reports on protests during Nazarbayev visit to Brussels

Feudal lords and politicians’ criminal decisions led to disaster

Kazakh Socialist and human rights activist, Ainur Kurmanov, addresses the European Parliament’s Subcommittee on Human Rights about the dictatorship in Kazakhstan and human rights abuses there.

Ainur Kurmanov slams regime’s record in Human Rights Committee of Euro-Parliament

“it’s one for all and all for one”

Demands Joe Higgins MEP

9 years after invasion and occupation

Sri Lanka has once again lived up to its reputation as one of the most dangerous places for a journalist to work

United Socialist Party and the fight for democratic rights

Beggars death in Bangalore

Kashmir is aflame again amid a renewed outpouring of popular, non-violent, revolt against India’s military occupation.

The newspaper’s website reports the brutal situation facing prisoners in Kazakhstan and the recent visit by Joe Higgins, MEP, Socialist Party (CWI Ireland).

Desperate inmates facing brutal beatings self-mutilate and hunger strike

Indian ‘Fact-finding mission’ will not offer solution

As we reported last week, the general strike of 7 September in India was called by a wide range of trade unions. It was in protests at the rocketing prices of food and fuel while […]

Media reports of Joe Higgins’ recent visit to Kazakhstan, where he called for the scrapping of an OSCE conference in the authoritarian-run country

On 8th September Joe Higgins, MEP Socialist Party (CWI Ireland) and Tanja Niemeier, LSP – PSL (CWI Belgium), spoke at a press conference of the GUE/NGL on breaches of human rights in Kazakh Prisons.

Workers showed courageous determination

Send solidarity messages!

‘Death of Democracy’ in Sri Lanka

Solidarity message from Joe Higgins, Socialist Party (CWI Ireland) MEP

Protests needed: "The Provisional Minimum Wage Commission does not speak for us!"

Police hold human rights defender, Vadim Kuramshin, for 10 days to prevent him meeting Joe Higgins MEP

Brutal Nazerbayev regime presides over ticking social time-bomb

Arrest of human rights lawyer and campaigner backfires on authorities

Lawyer attacked and arrested in run-up to Euro MP’s visit

Strike and protest action in around 4,000 factories

Employers bow down to their demands

Leaflet of New Socialist Alternative (CWI India)

Thousands of garment workers in Bangladesh took to the streets of Dhaka to dismiss the recently announced increase in the minimum wage as completely inadequate.

Workers’ leaders will not be cowed by persecution

Obama’s dismissal of general reveals military crisis

What way forward after the great mass movements of April 2006 and 2009

At the Committee on International Trade, Joe Higgins MEP questions the European Commission about its proposed Free Trade Agreement with South Korea and what impact that will have on the rights of workers in Europe […]

Build a real democracy movement – based on mass struggle, anti-capitalism and a working class political alternative

Twelve workers have committed suicide so far this year at the factory that makes Apple iPads. Four others survived, gravely injured, and 20 were stopped from killing themselves by the company. All the dead were […]

OSCE Chair presides over torture of prisoners – Protests needed urgently!

Joe also condemns the hypocrisy of right-wing politicans claiming to support human rights in Pakistan while supporting the brutal wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

A CONSTANT stream of Tamils flowed into Parliament Square, London, on Tuesday 18 May.

LSD’s 278,931 votes to Donald Tsang’s 649 votes – who has failed to muster support?

At a Plenary Session of the European Parliament, Joe Higgins MEP condemns the brutal repression of protesters in Thailand by the military

State colludes with Multinational

By the time this report was written, the tension had increased to a new level in the streets of Bangkok since the passsing of Wednesday night’s ultimatum.

Message from Ainur Kurmanov on his release from jail

Hit back against the ruling gang of unelected government and billionaire tycoons

International campaign continues!

This morning, Wednesday 5 May, the court in Almaty sentenced Esen Ukteshbaev to five days imprisonment simply for being at a peaceful May Day demonstration last week-end. URGENT ACTION NEEDED.

It is clear that a wave of arrests and repression against left and social movement activists in Kazakhstan is gathering pace.

Free Ainur Kurmanov and drop all charges against leaders of workers’ movement

Political landscape little changed since 2008 ‘tsunami’

Socialist activist starts hunger strike – Step up protests!

Joe Higgins MEP protests over jailing of socialist activist Ainur Kurmanov

Consolidation of chauvinism – mass opposition needed

More than 100 refugees, who have been held in a tiny boat near Merak port in Indonesia for over seven months, have been moved to the Tanjung Pinang detention centre.

New foreword to Chinese edition to be published in June 2010 | China, Maoism, Nepal and India.

Government of “people’s confidence” declares it has taken power

Perspective for united struggle

Thousands demand dissolution as political crisis deepens

Historic ‘Kazakhstan 2012 conference’ in opposition to Nazabayev regime

CWI presence and local support lessens judge’s sentence

Ten thousand oil refinery workers have been striking since 4 March 2010 in west Kazakhstan. They are facing increasing repression from the state and black out from the media. Joe Higgins sent the following message […]

The following appeal was sent from Socialist Resistance Kazakhstan (CWI) activists. This vital strike of ten thousand oil refinery workers is facing a news blockade in Kazakhstan and also court rulings against the workers’ right […]

Six pro-democracy activists charged for “unlawful assembly” as China’s crackdown extends to Hong Kong

Urgent protests needed!

Interview with Sringatin of the Indonesian Migrant Workers’ Union (IMWU) in Hong Kong

8 March should be start of massive campaign for an inclusive legal minimum wage

Protest against Australian/Indonesian government.

SBY government’s honeymoon spoiled

Introduction to new Urdu edition of ‘Permanent Revolution’ by Leon Trotsky

2,000 textile workers stage strike to demand better pay and working condition

Fight to stop dictatorship cannot be postponed

Which way forward for “referendum” campaign and struggle for democratic rights?

Review of Jeyakumar Devaraj’s "Malaysia at the Crossroads, a Socialist Perspective"

Grim period ahead for workers and poor.

A courageous record fighting repression and ethnic division

United Socialist Party (CWI in Sri Lanka) campaign continues

Socialist Party (CWI in Ireland) MEP speaks in European parliament

Tamil solidarity case forcefully put by Tamil Solidarity coordinator

Socialist runs with clear alternative to “choice of death by machete or death by axe”

“Abolish functional constituencies – we want universal suffrage!”

Candidate for United Socialist Party (CWI in Sri Lanka) writes to British press

What does the election mean for the Tamil-speaking masses?

New website covers election campaign

We are sickeningly familiar with the arrogant, cruel statements of Sri Lankan prime minister, Mahinda Rajapaksa, and his cronies. They dismiss any criticism of their brutal war against Tamil-speaking people and the horrific aftermath of […]

Masses need socialist alternative to end poverty, wars and oppression

Interview with union Chairman, Kiswoyo

Deplorable conditions for 254 Tamil refugees

Bombard embassies with protests!

Delegates defied “very difficult circumstances”

Solidarity needed with stranded refugees in Indonesia

Socialist Resistance Kazakhstan (CWI) leader, Ainur Kurmanov addresses Warsaw meeting on OSCE

United struggle needed for liberation

Attempt to silence tireless fighter for workers and poor will not succeed!

Book Review of ‘Listening to Grasshoppers’ by Arundhati Roy

CWI support for mass protest in Orissa, 10 September

New government will push workers and young people to build struggle against capitalism

Will it make any difference?

The needs of the working class and youth are sidelined

But capitalist alternative Democratic Party of Japan offers no secure future for workers and young people

Tamil people “Not prepared to surrender”

A message of solidarity & thanks to international supporters

Rising casualties in an un-winnable war

Urgent solidarity action needed

Leader of Socialist Resistance Kazakhstan, Ainur Kurmanov, again under threat!

Struggle for nationalisation of coach factory continues

Skirmishes in parliament further sign of growing crisis

International campaign needed to end attacks on media and opposition

“The government privatised us, now let them nationalise us. We are going to the end!”

National question remains unresolved

Beginnings of fight-back against dictatorial Rajapakse regime

Working class action to end war threat!

Days of victory celebrations humiliating all Tamils

First ever victor for health department service workers

Rajapakse government cannot fulfil needs of workers and poor

Western-backed elite enrich themselves as vast majority live in poverty

Socialists continue fight against Rajapakse dictatorship

Joe Higgins attacks Sri Lankan government in Irish Daily Mail

Workers and young people have no party fighting capitalism and landlordism

Power transition to save weakening UMNO/BN

Export-driven economy shrinks

Mass protests continue

Neither major party has solution for working and poor people

Indian government told to stop support of murderous Rajapakse regime

International protest grows

Solidarity action at 10 oil fields – Messages of support needed!

Author Arundathi Roy’s statement gets national and international coverage

Tamil people must have right to decide own future

Campaign launched to demand end to war and to fight for democratic rights

But further struggle will be needed

Government of Pakistani occupation threatens to crush strike

Appeal for protests as pro-government thugs are used yet again to silence opposition

Spoil Sri Lankan government’s ‘Freedom Day’ celebrations!

Socialists demand action to end the nightmare

Leave people their homes!

Security company G4S has answered a recent security officers’ strike by sacking 100 members of its workforce.

Tamil Tigers in danger of defeat; Tamil people’s struggle goes on

Socialists call for media freedom, peace, democracy and socialism.

Broad campaign launched to stop state violence

Protests and solidarity action needed.

CWI member assaulted by police and arrested

Political conflict far from over

Defeat the terror of communalism and capitalism. Statement issued on 29 November 2008.

No longer a planned economy, but not yet a fully capitalist economy

China developments crucial importance to socialists everywhere

Textile workers win big concessions through persistent campaign

Weeks of bloody protests and political deadlock within ruling elite

Opposition trounced but United Socialist Party still biggest left force

Independent working class policies vital

United Socialist Party challenges government over war and prices

For a wage increase of just 5,000 rupees a month (£25)

President Rajapakse greeted with angry protests in London

19th anniversary demonstration in the shadow of Sichuan earthquake

The Provincial Council election in the East will enter history as one of the most rigged elections in Sri Lanka.

Campaigning for a new mass workers’ party

Wealth and privilege put before aid

The only political party to have a demonstration and rally in Colombo

Food prices and workers’ rights are key issues

Rich tributes paid to the Chicago Martyrs

Booming growth or looming crisis?

Socialists fight in Eastern elections

Need for socialist programme to break with landlordism and capitalism

Protests urgently needed!

Urgent solidarity needed!

‘Political tsunami’ creates new political landscape

Export of ‘dirty industries’ by giants like Unilever must be stopped

Class struggle more urgent than ever

“One of the 20th century’s biggest killers and greatest thieves”

Sixty arrested and held in police cells

Hindu Rights Action Force campaign underlines need for socialist solution

Society polarised

Full-scale war to follow assassination and bombings

Government, rocked by mass demonstrations, takes revenge

Nearly 300 trade unionists and workers participated in the first TURC-K national convention held in Kotli (Pakistani Occupied Kashmir, POK) on December 8.

How will the Games benefit the mass of the Chinese people?

Biggest demonstration since ‘Reformasi’ movement of ten years ago

Call for united action now

Official figures belie extent of killings, maimings, disappearances and arrests

Only way to counter racial and reactionary religious policies

Textile workers are on the move again.

Industry enriches bosses but endangers life and the environment

Review of ‘China: The Fragile Superpower’ by Susan L Shirk The stream of books published on China almost equals the volume of products churned out from the country’s factories and workplaces. Many have provided invaluable […]

Deaths and injuries, as protests spread

Military warns of “action” against biggest street protests for two decades

This is an opportune time for the publication of the Pakistani edition of this book.

A first-hand report on the glaring social contradictions in modern-day China

"Nothing – there’s nothing to go back to…"

Wesley Suthantharabal Muthiah 1930 – 2007

Scandals abound

Will India and China, the new economic giants, rescue world capitalism?

Government isolated; workers need solutions

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

Party’s leaders called in for questioning

Campaign against war and oppression gets a boost

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

Ruling elite divided with no immediate alternative

Judge rejects state prosecutor’s demands

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

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

A review article on ‘The Writing on the Wall: China and the West in the 21st Century’ (by Will Hutton)

Siritunga Jayasuriya, secretary of the United Socialist Party (CWI Sri Lanka) and some associates in the ’United People’s Movement’ escaped with their lives when over 300 armed thugs, led by a deputy minister, raided the […]

Mass class struggle in impoverished, repressive society

Bodies of murder victims likely those of kidnapped Tamils

Private developers’ thugs and police demolish local homes

Majority of children malnourished and majority of population illiterate

Medecin Sans Frontier threaten striking health workers with dismissal

The situation in Sri Lanka has become even more difficult for the left forces, especially the activists fighting against the war and against the repression of the rights of the Tamil-speaking minority.

Solidarity and protest letters urgently needed

Protest letters and solidarity messages still needed

The campaign against repression and war in Sri Lanka has gathered even more momentum.

London lobbies on Wednesday 31 January: Stop the killings! Put Mervyn Silva on trial! Hands off Siritunga Jaysuriya!

Hundreds of journalists and media workers from five Sri Lankan media organisations staged a joint protest at Colombo Fort railway station last Tuesday, 23 January, against the threats and intimidation against journalists and their frequent […]

Protest letters continue to bombard the office of the president of Sri Lanka following the brutal gangster attack on an anti-war meeting in Colombo.

Protests outside embassies and consulates.

Letters of strong protest from two of Ireland’s Socialist Party councillors:

The Trade Union Rights Campaign – Kashmir have been in the forefront of helping to organise solidarity for thousands of earthquake affected public sector workers in Pakistani Occupied Kashmir (POK).

Please draw up protests on the basis of the resolution for MPs (see below)

Demands for decent compensation and living conditions

Government fails to solve the problems of the quake affected public sector workers.

Siritunga Jaysuriya of the United Socialist Party (CWI Sri Lanka) and a handful of associates in the ‘United People’s Movement’ escaped with their lives when over 300 armed thugs, led by a deputy minister, raided […]

Troops were deployed throughout Bangladesh on Sunday 11 December supposedly to “maintain law and order”, according to a Presidential order.

The 15 day long tea plantation strike – the longest in recent history – is supposed to have come to an end.

Three days before the congress of the United Socialist Party (CWI, Sri Lanka) was convened in Colombo, a suicide bomb attack in the city targeted the minister of defence – the brother of the president, […]

Send urgent protests to stop demolitions and evictions!

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The leader of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, in his Heroes’ Day speech, has warned of an end to the cease-fire and of the ‘Tigers’ renewing their demand for independence.

Twenty three arrested and held while devastation wrought

Trade unionists and left activists under threat

Protests at the murder of prominent Tamil MP, Nadarajah Raviraj, continue to pour in to embassies around the world and directly to the office of the president of Sri Lanka, Mahinda Rajapakse.

Thousands march in Colombo; embassies picketed around the globe

High profile assassination demands massive response

Danger of army intervention

In February of this year, crowds gathered on the streets of Manila to commemorate the ‘People Power’ revolution of twenty years.

ON February 24, a Friday, the Philippine media reported an aborted coup d’etat allegedly launched by rebel military forces against the government of Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.

The description of Sri Lanka as ‘tear-shaped’ has never been more apt than it is today.

cwi lobbies of Sri Lanka embassies in Stockholm and London

Send protests against state repression!

Why is the Taliban resurgent?

Imperialist powers hypocritical condemnation

Urgent international support needed!

"Life for the Tamil people of Sri Lanka has become unbearable."

Army suppresses democratic rights

For a fighting, democratic union!

Corporation connives with local authorities in forcible evictions

Protesting Bangladeshi garment workers torch factories

5 killed, 50 injured security force shootings

Courts deny Parti Sosialis Malaysia the right to register as a party

Residents resist brutal police repression

Only chronic poverty and conflict for resources-rich “new nation”

Where is the ‘peace process’ heading?

In the 1950s, Lee Kuan Yew formed a political association with the Communist Party of Malaya (CPM) which had been able to amass and maintain a huge following among the working class.

The recently concluded general election on 6 May in Singapore was considered an exciting election, at least by Singaporean standards.

Early in the morning on Thursday, 15 June, two claymore mines exploded destroying a bus packed with farmers, workers and children.

International workers’ solildarity, a must for workers in Kashmir

Six years after their first military intervention, a second Australia-led military and police force has re-occupied East Timor.

Sri Lanka has just come to the end of a period of elections.

Mass resistance stops homes demolition

Australian government despatches troops to ’secure’ Dili airport