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Europe

Britain

Obituary: Bob Crow – an uncompromising fighter for the working class

March 11, 2014 Socialist Party (CWI in England & Wales)

Bob Crow was a constant fighter for the working class and a champion of many important causes

Italy

Italy: Police ‘medieval’ punishment against protesters

March 10, 2014 ControCorrente, Italy

Activists banished from Bologna on trumped up charges

Ukraine

Ukraine: Russian troops take up positions throughout Crimea

March 4, 2014 CWI Reporters

Tensions deepen between Western powers and Moscow

Britain

Britain: 1984-85 miners’ strike remembered

February 27, 2014 Socialist Party Reporter

Lessons of strike: united in decisive action the working class can win

Ukraine

Ukraine: Yanukovich deposed

February 25, 2014 Niall Mulholland, CWI

Pro-western, right wing regime consolidates power

Bosnia

Masovni protesti prouzrokovani siromaštvom i korumpiranom vladom

February 25, 2014 Niall Mulholland, CWI

Serbo-Croat translation of the article ’Mass protests over poverty and corrupt government’ – Revolt pokazuje potencijal radničke klase da prevaziđe etničku podeljenost

Germany

Germany: Left Party shifts to the right

February 21, 2014 Sascha Stanicic, national spokesperson <a href="http://www.sozialismus.info">SAV (CWI Germany)</a>

Need to build Left Party on clear anti-capitalist basis

Bosnia

Bosnia: Mass protests over poverty and corrupt government

February 20, 2014 Niall Mulholland, CWI

Revolt shows potential of working class to overcome ethnic divisions

Ukraine

Ukraine: Bloodshed in Kiev

February 19, 2014 Rob Jones, from <a href="http://www.socialismtoday.org/">Socialism Today</a> (March edition, No.176)

What lies behind the Ukraine crisis?

Bosnia

Bosnia: Novi Revlot Radnika I Nezaposleni

February 18, 2014 J. Hird, Socialismo Revolucionario (CWI iz Spanije)

Serbo-Croat translation of the article ’New revolt of workers and unemployed’ (first published on 10/02/14)

Scotland

Scotland: “Project Fear” goes into overdrive

February 15, 2014 Philip Stott, Socialist Party Scotland (CWI)

Main pro-Union parties step up campaign ahead of independence referendum

Britain

Britain: London tube stoppages show workers can win

February 14, 2014 Editorial from The Socialist, weekly paper of the <a href="http://www.socialistparty.org.uk">Socialist Party (CWI England and Wales)</a>

Could signal a real step-change in the longer war against austerity

Bosnia

Bosnia: New revolt of workers and unemployed

February 10, 2014 J. Hird, Socialismo Revolucionario (CWI in Spain)

“I think this is a genuine Bosnian spring. We have nothing to lose…”

Scotland

Scotland: Hated Bedroom Tax defeated!

February 6, 2014 Philip Stott, Socialist Party Scotland (CWI)

Scottish Anti-Bedroom Tax Federation and affiliated campaigns show what can be achieved with a strong campaign

Italy

Italy: stagnation and instability

February 5, 2014 Christine Thomas, ControCorrente (CWI in Italy)

Article first published in Socialism Today

Spain

Spain 2014: Recovery? For whom?

February 1, 2014 Editorial from February 2014 edition of La Brecha, paper of Socialismo Revolucionario (CWI in Spain)

Let’s make 2014 the year of the political general strike!

France

France: The need for a combative political force

January 31, 2014 Leila Messaoudi, Gauche Révolutionnaire (CWI in France)

More and more tensions develop in the Left Front

Ukraine

Ukraine: President Yanukovich makes major concessions to opposition

January 29, 2014 Niall Mulholland, CWI

After weeks of violent clashes, powerful oligarchs intervene

Spain

Spain: New Abortion Law a crime against the freedom, health and life of women

January 25, 2014 By Marisa Cabal, based on a longer article by Victoria Lara of Socialismo Revolucionario (CWI in Spain)

A question of gender and class

Britain

Britain: Unite all workers to end bosses’ race to the bottom

January 11, 2014 Editorial from the Socialist, paper of the Socialist Party (CWI in England & Wales)

Much of the right-wing media whipped up hostility and alarm in the run up to the 1 January end of restrictions on entry to Britain for people from Romania and Bulgaria

Britain

Britain: Act against austerity

January 3, 2014 John McInally, national vice-president of the PCS civil servants’ union (personal capacity)

The case for joint coordinated industrial action

Britain

2014: Another year of mass struggles beckons

December 31, 2013 Peter Taaffe, general secretary of the <a href="http://www.socialistparty.org.uk">Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)</a>

Appeal of socialist change will grow

Germany

Germany: Mass school students’ strike in Hamburg against deportations

December 22, 2013 Corey Snoek & Katharina Doll SAV (CWI in Germany)

Defend the refugees! Defend union members!

Spain

Spain: A year of struggle and militancy despite union leaders’ roadblock

December 21, 2013 Victoria Lara, Socialismo Revolucionario (CWI in Spain)

Indefinite strikes, occupations, seeds of workers’ control

Ukraine

Ukraine: EU not solution, independent movement of workers and young people needed

December 17, 2013 Socialistworld.net

MEP Paul Murphy condemns brutal State violence against peaceful protesters in Kiev

Netherlands

Netherlands: An “employers’ paradise”

December 16, 2013 Pieter Brans, Socialist Alternative (CWI in Netherlands)

But tide begins to turn as workers startto take action

Italy

Italy: The five day strike which paralysed Genoa

December 13, 2013 Interview by Offensiv (CWI, Sweden)

Privatisation of local transport delayed

Scotland

Scotland: SNP’s white paper will not deliver decisive change

December 6, 2013 Philip Stott, Socialist Party Scotland (CWI Scotland)

Scottish constitutional referendum: Yes to an independent socialist Scotland, no to a continuation of capitalist austerity

Europe

Europe: Extreme-right parties form alliance

November 30, 2013 Per-Åke Westerlund, from Offensiv, weekly newspaper of Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (CWI Sweden)

Populist, anti-immigrant parties aim to exploit anti-EU mood in May elections

Britain

The labour of Tony Benn

November 27, 2013 Peter Taaffe, general secretary of the Socialist Party (CWI in England and Wales)

Tony Benn’s latest volume of diaries continues his frank and honest appraisal of his political life. He has campaigned long and hard – but in vain – to halt the degeneration of the Labour Party.

Britain

Britain: Socialism 2013

November 5, 2013 Sarah Sachs-Eldridge, Socialist Party (CWI England and Wales)

Reflecting a thirst to resist and the search for ideas

Scotland

Scotland: End the witch-hunt of Stevie Deans and Unite union

November 5, 2013 Editorial from <i>The Socialist</i>, newspaper of the Socialist Party Scotland (CWI)

Class hatred of an out-of-touch capitalist elite

Spain

Catalonia: The national question, the European Union and the limits of capitalism

November 1, 2013 Angel Morano, Socialismo Revolucionario (CWI in Spain) from autumn edition of La Brecha, paper of Socialismo Revolucionario

Debate centres on question of EU following massive human chain in favour of independence on 11 September

Scotland

Scotland: Unions must learn lessons from Grangemouth setback

October 26, 2013 From the Socialist Party Scotland (CWI) website

Unite members not offered a fighting strategy, other than to accept cuts

Scotland

Scotland: Bosses announce closure of Grangemouth petrochemical plant

October 24, 2013 From the Socialist Party Scotland (CWI) website

Unions’ decisive plan of action need to defeat this act of corporate vandalism

Britain

Britain: How ‘red’ is Labour leader Ed Miliband?

October 24, 2013 Peter Taaffe, from <a href="http://www.socialismtoday.org/">Socialism Today</a> (November 2013 issue)

Time to gather forces for a real workers’ alternative is now

Italy

Italy: Two days of protest

October 22, 2013 Giuliano Brunetti, Controcorrente (CWI in Italy)

‘Unions of the Base’ and social movements on the streets

Scotland

Scotland: Grangemouth workers rally against bosses’ bullying

October 21, 2013 Philip Stott, Socialist Party Scotland (CWI)

A fight the trade union movement cannot afford to lose

Spain

Spain: For a ‘hot autumn’ of militant struggle!

October 17, 2013 Editorial from La Brecha, paper of Socialismo Revolucionario (CWI in Spain)

Defend pensions – General strike now to bring down the government!

France

France: Deep malaise marks ‘la rentrée’

October 16, 2013 Clare Doyle (CWI Secretariat) and Leila Messaoudi (Gauche Révolutionnaire, CWI in France)

A fighting, working class left remains to be built

Austria

Austria: Elections see further decline in support for main parties

October 14, 2013 Sonja Grusch, Socialist Left Party (CWI Austria)

New neo-liberal parties enter fray but workers need a strong socialist alternative

Scotland

Scotland: Anti-bedroom tax conference

October 11, 2013 Socialist Party Scotland (CWI) Reporters

“Let’s bury it for good!”

Italy

Italy: Berlusconi humiliated

October 8, 2013 Chris Thomas, Controcorrente (CWI in Italy)

Letta government faces continuing economic and social crisis

Britain

Britain: Over 50,000 protesters tell Tory conference they are not welcome

October 4, 2013 Matt Kilsby, from The Socialist (weekly paper of Socialist Party England & Wales)

Mood for action against ConDem government

Britain

Britain: Labour conference – no socialist policies

October 1, 2013 Editorial, <i>The Socialist</i>, weekly newspaper of the Socialist Party (England & Wales)

Trade unionists debate how organised working class can have a political voice

Netherlands

Netherlands: Thousands demonstrate against government cuts

September 28, 2013 Pieter Brans, Socialist Alternative (CWI in Netherlands) Amsterdam

Dutch people want a real alternative to austerity

Britain

Britain: Rotten, wasteful capitalism has to go

September 27, 2013 Peter Taaffe, from <i>The Socialist,</i> newspaper of the <a href="http://www.socialistparty.org.uk">Socialist Party (CWI England and Wales)</a>

The case for a socialist alternative

Germany

Germany: Merkel re-elected….

September 26, 2013 Sascha Stanicic, National Spokesperson, Sozialistische Alternative (CWI in Germany)

But unstable times lie ahead

Scotland

Scotland: 20,000 march in support of ‘YES’ vote for independence

September 25, 2013 Matt Dobson, Socialist Party Scotland (CWI), Glasgow

Socialist Party Scotland alone calls for public ownership of major sectors of economy

Norway

Norway: Right-wing parties win recent elections

September 23, 2013 Editorial in last week’s Offensiv, weekly paper of Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (CWI Sweden)

Racist-populist ’Progress Party’ now to be in government

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