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USA

US: Hurricane Katrina – biggest refugee crisis since the American Civil War

September 6, 2005 Editorial from The Socialist, England and Wales

The effects of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans and Mississippi could be the US’s worst natural disaster, with a projected 10,000 or more people dead and its biggest refugee crisis since the American Civil War. […]

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Nigeria

Nigeria: One fuel price hike too many

September 5, 2005 Dagga Tollar, Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM), Nigeria

Marxists often state that counter-revolution invariably always act as the whiplash of revolution. This is the best way to interpret the easy manner with which some of the slogans which were raised by the DSM […]

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Britain

Iraq: After the constitutional stitch-up…

September 5, 2005 Lynn Walsh, editor, Socialist Today

The fragmentation of Iraq?

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Scotland

Scotland: After Scotland’s largest ever protest G8 leaders…

September 5, 2005 Philip Stott, International Socialists (CWI in Scotland)

G8 fail to ‘Make Poverty History’

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Nigeria

Nigeria: Oppose the hike in fuel prices

August 29, 2005 Segun Sango, Chairman, Lagos NCP

Press statement of Lagos NCP

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Pakistan

Pakistan: A state at the crossroads

August 29, 2005 Khalid Bhatti, SMP Lahore

Nothing has changed under Musharraf

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Philippines

Philippines: President Arroyo’s corruption leaves Philippines in crisis

August 29, 2005 Greg Bradshaw, Socialist Party, Australia

The ‘liberal-democratic’ political system of the Philippines is in freefall.

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Britain

Britain: Gate Gourmet – solidarity action is vital

August 29, 2005 Editorial from The Socialist

The Battle for the re-instatement of the 800 sacked Gate Gourmet workers is proving to be a defining moment in the class struggle in Britain.

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Pakistan

Pakistan: Trade Union Rights Campaign seminar in Karachi

August 25, 2005 Zubair Rehman, Organiser SMP, Karachi

125 trade unionists and political activists pay rich tribute to the historic struggle of PTCL Workers.

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Israel / Palestine

Israel/Palestine: Gaza withdrawal – will Sharon’s pull-out bring ‘peace’?

August 24, 2005 Jenny Brooks, Socialist Party, England and Wales

The Israeli government has now demolished all the Jewish settlements in the Gaza strip, with four more in the West Bank to follow. This is the first time that Israel has removed settlements in Palestinian […]

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Poland: Solidarnosc’s rise and fall

August 23, 2005 Alistair Tice, Socialist Party England and Wales

Poland after 1945

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Kashmir

Kashmir: Trade Union Rights Campaign organises first ever trade union conference in Kashmir

August 23, 2005 Malik Shakoor

More than 100 Trade Union and Political Leaders attend trade union rights conference

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Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka: Facing a ‘Political Tsunami’

August 23, 2005 Siritunga Jayasuriya, 18 August 2005

Sri Lanka is going through an unprecedented crisis, not only because of the murder of Foreign Minister Kadirgarmar last week, but also the failure of the capitalist government to meet the present challenges.

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Britain

Britain: Britain’s 9/11

August 23, 2005 Peter Taaffe, Socialist Party, England and Wales

Bombings have left a huge imprint

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Britain

Britain’s 9/11: Bombings have left a huge imprint

August 23, 2005 Peter Taaffe, Socialist Party, England and Wales

After an earthquake comes an aftershock

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Venezuela

Venezuela: Venezuelan Diary

August 22, 2005 Sonja Grusch, Socialist Left Party, Austria

Successful cwi intervention at the world youth festival

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Netherlands

Netherlands: Repercussions of the “NO” vote against the European constitution

August 18, 2005 Elisabeth Bakker, Offensief, Netherlands

The clear class “NO” vote expressed increasing anger with one of the most unpopular governments in the whole of Europe. It is likely that new struggles will unfold in the autumn

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Malaysia

Malaysia: The haze – capitalism’s gift to mankind

August 18, 2005 R Mohanarani, Parti Sosialis Malaysia (PSM)

Last week a heavy cloud of pollution engulfed parts of Malaysia.

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Scotland

Scotland: SSP MSPs & staff victimised by Scottish parliament

August 18, 2005 socialistworld.net

Voters denied the right to representation

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Britain

Britain: Gate Gourmet, Heathrow – 800 workers sacked at a few minutes notice

August 16, 2005 Ken Smith, Socialist Party

Gate Gourmet, a catering company supplying British Airways, sacked up to 800 predominantly Asian workers at a few minutes notice at one of their sites at Heathrow on Wednesday 10 August.

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Nigeria

Nigeria: $18 billion debt pardon – second slavery in disguise

August 12, 2005 Segun Sango, General Secretary, Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI in Nigeria)

A socialist alternative is the only way out

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South Africa

South Africa: Workers demand their share of economic boom in biggest strike wave since 1996

August 11, 2005 Weizmann Hamilton, Johannesburg, Democratic Socialist Movement

Strike action shows workers are not prepared to see wealth polarization continue

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Philippines

Philippines: Mass movement against Arroyo

August 3, 2005 Stephen Jolly, Socialist Party Australia

Medium-sized rallies are being organised on an almost daily basis in the Philippines with the aim of driving the pro-US President Arroyo from power.

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Nigeria

Nigeria: Reject the deadly deal, insist on debt cancellation

August 1, 2005 Movement against debt enslavement (MADE), Nigeria

An open memorandum to the national assembly concerning the June 30, 2005 Paris Club Deal

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Iran

Iran: Governement executes gay teenagers

July 29, 2005 Marc Vallée Socialist Party England and Wales.

The newly elected president of Iran, the religious conservative and former revolutionary guard Mahmoud Ahmadinejad who was elected on the 24 June tried to play down fears of Iranian workers during the election campaign that […]

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Ireland North

Northern Ireland: IRA prepares statement on its future

July 28, 2005 Peter Hadden, Socialist Party, Belfast

A statement by the IRA on its future role, which has been in the pipeline for some time, is still eagerly awaited by the British and Irish governments and the main political parties.

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Britain

Britain: London bombings – national protests needed to oppose terror, war, racism and increased state repression.

July 27, 2005 Editorial from The Socialist

Recent events have dramatically heightened the atmosphere of insecurity and tension in Britain, and particularly London.

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Pakistan

Pakistan: 120 Trade Union activists attend TURCP meeting in Islamabad

July 26, 2005 Azam Janjuah and Shahid Zaheer, TURCP Islamabad

More than 120 trade union activists and leaders of different trade unions attended a meeting organised by Trade Union Rights Campaign in the Pakistan Telecommunications Company Limited Colony in Islamabad on 13 July.

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Britain

Britain: London bombings – Workers maintain class unity

July 25, 2005 Mike Forster, UNISON education rep, Kirklees

A Yorkshire trade union rep’s viewpoint

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Britain

Britain: Hospital workers condemn terrorism and war

July 22, 2005 Socialist Party, England and Wales

Since the bombings, the Socialist Party has been calling for an emergency demonstration to be organised with the clear message: ‘No to terror, no to war, no to racism’.

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Israel / Palestine

Israel: Reactionary right whips up homophobia against Pride demonstration

July 21, 2005 Shahar Benhar, CWI Israel

Weeks of a vicious propaganda campaign against the proposal to hold a Pride Parade in Jerusalem resulted in demonstrators being stabbed by a reactionary ultra right-wing settler at the event on June 30.

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Britain

Britain: After the London bombings – No to terror! No to War!

July 20, 2005 Hannah Sell, Socialist Party, London

The main reaction of working people to the horror of the London bombings has been a mood of unity against terrorism.

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Britain

Britain: BBC listeners vote for Marx

July 18, 2005 Tony Saunois, cwi secretary, London

“Philosophers have interpreted the world the point is to change it”.

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Britain

Britain: London bombings and Iraq

July 14, 2005 CWI

There is a huge wellspring of sympathy and solidarity – shared by the socialist – for the victims of the London tube and bus bombings. The unspeakable horrors that have been visited on the innocent […]

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Africa

Africa: Nigerian Socialist interviewed on BBC Radio 2

July 12, 2005 CWI

Segun Sango, general secretary of the Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI in Nigeria) has just been interviewed by Jeremy Vine on BBC Radio 2 on the problems of debt and poverty in Africa.

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Pakistan

Pakistan: The struggle against privatisation of Pakistan Telecoms

July 11, 2005 Azad Qadri and Khalid Bhatti, Socialist Movement Pakistan.

A reply to the distortions of ‘Class Struggle’

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Iran

Iran: Iranian elections

July 10, 2005 Lynn Walsh

Hardliner’s victory stuns Western leaders

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Germany

Germany: A new challenge from the left

July 6, 2005 Sascha Stanicic, Socialist Alternative, Berlin, Germany

National congress of new left-wing party WASG in Germany prepares for general elections

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Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia: Campaign for democratic trade union rights

July 4, 2005 Alec Thraves, Socialist Party, Cardiff

Yahya Al-Faifi has had to seek refuge in Swansea because the Saudi Arabian government has deemed that he is guilty of the ‘crime’ of trying to organize his fellow workers.

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Austria

Austria: Striking Slovakian workers win court case against Mondi Company

July 2, 2005 Sonja Grusch, Socialist Left Party (SLP - CWI), Vienna

International solidarity – more then a slogan!

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Iraq

Iraq: Deeper in the quagmire

July 1, 2005 Judy Beishon

No-one believed US vice-president Dick Cheney when he said the Iraqi insurgency was in its "last throes".

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Iran

Iran: Election blow to pro-capitalist wing of ruling elite and imperialism

July 1, 2005 Robert Bechert, cwi

The rich defeated but Ahmadinejad is no alternative

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Asia

Asia – tsunami disaster: Sri Lanka – The struggle for survival and justice goes on

June 30, 2005 Siritunga Jayasuriya, Secretary of the United Socialist Party (CWI, Sri Lanka)

The people in Sri Lanka who lost everything in the tsunami disaster of 26 December are still left with nothing.

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Nigeria

Nigeria: Resisting neo-liberal attacks – fighting for a socialist alternative

June 30, 2005 Demo, Democratic Socialist Movement, Lagos

While Africa pays $15 billion yearly to service its debt to the rich nations and financial institutions, it receives less than $13 billion as aid with strings attached.

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South Africa

South Africa: Powerful general strike against bosses

June 28, 2005 Weizmann Hamilton, Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM - CWI), Johannesburg

Militant action needed to stop "jobs holocaust"

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Africa

Africa: A continent in crisis

June 26, 2005 Robert Bechert (cwi)

Imperialism condemns millions to poverty

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Bolivia

Bolivia: After the uprising

June 24, 2005 Marcus Kollbrunner, cwi

The mass protest movements against neo-liberal policies that swept Bolivia with strikes and demos have ousted president Carlos Mesa.

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Finland

Finland: paper and pulp industry workers fight bosses’ lock-out

June 23, 2005 Jonas Brännberg, Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna, (CWI Sweden)

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

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Scotland

scotland: trade unionists occupy Pakistani Consulate in Glasgow

June 23, 2005 Philip Stott, International Socialists (CWI), Glasgow, Thursday 23 June 2005

Leading activists demand end of repression of Pakistan telecom workers

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Europe

Europe: EU leaders in a “condition of shock”

June 22, 2005 Per-Åke Westerlund, Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (cwi Sweden)

Crushing ‘No’ vote in French and Dutch referendums leads to EU summit collapse

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