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CWI member, Lucy Redler, elected to National Committee

One and half million public and private sector workers in Italy went on strike on Friday 17 November.

"The discussion this weekend is how we can change the world".

Hizbollah and the Free Patriotic Movement (FPM) have planned mass street demonstrations for this week in opposition to Prime Minister Siniora and his weakened, imperialist-supported, March 14th or Future movement government.

On Monday, November 27, several hundred protesters surrounded the entrance to Cochabamba’s municipal building in what turned out to be a sharp clash with right-wing thugs and provocateurs and the Cochabamba police. 

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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.

More than 300 Trade Unionists in attendance

Left course needed to build on Socialist Party’s polls breakthrough

Right-wing opposition to left-leaning Bolivian president, Evo Morales, and his governing party, Movement towards Socialism (MAS), has increased dramatically in the last week as potential conflicts that have been brewing for months have recently come […]

Confrontations between police and demonstrators result in 48 wounded and 60 arrests

For a bold socialist programme – No to a coalition with rightwing parties!

Twenty three arrested and held while devastation wrought

Pro-western Siniora government hangs on by its fingertips

Masses yearn for end to despotism, wars and poverty

"Se ve, se siente, tenemos presidente"

As Daniel Ortega, leader of the Sandinistas, scraped home as president, thousands took to the streets of the capital, Managua, hooting car horns, sounding football klaxons and setting off fireworks to celebrate the victory.

Trade unionists and left activists under threat

Trade Union Rights Campaign meeting attracts over 100 activists

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.

‘Monument to the Revolution’, Mexico DF – that is our rendezvous for last Saturday morning, 9 am.

The US economy slowed down sharply before the mid-term elections.

Thousands march in Colombo; embassies picketed around the globe

Six months after it narrowly defeated the right-wing government of Silvio Berlusconi, Romano Prodi’s centre-left coalition in Italy is hanging by a thread.

“He doth bestride the narrow world, like a colossus; and we petty men, walk under his huge legs and peep about”. (Shakespeare, Julius Caesar) Bush, decked out as a poor imitation of a modern ‘Caesar’, […]

Rebels to give up arms and to enter new coalition government

Working class says no to war and neo-liberalism

Respect the right to asylum of the Kurdish refugees!

Friday 10 November was the first day of protests against the possible deportation of Kurdish asylum seekers from Cyprus in many countries across the world.

25 deaths, 400 disappearances as the federal state clamps down to kill APPO

High profile assassination demands massive response

November 9th saw hundreds join a demonstration against racism and fascism in Vienna initiated by the Socialist Left Party, SLP.

Recent political developments in Hungary

In its nine years in office New Labour has presided over the brutal occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan, the privatisation of more public services than the Tories, and a bonanza of riches for the elite […]

Urgent campaigning needed in working class communities

New workers’ party necessary to fight back

Danger of army intervention

Reactionary Jewish and Arab groups unite in homophobic campaign

Embassy officials attempt to intimidate protesters

Solidarity appeal for Venezuelan fishermen in struggle

Police in civilian clothes shoot four people before moving in with armoured trucks and helicopters

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.

60% of the population think all politicians are corrupt

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

In less than a week the Bush and Blair administrations have been forced into humiliating public retreats over their Iraq policy.