Britain
Britain: Inner cities erupt
A mass workers’ movement is needed to defeat the government
Around the world
Israel / Palestine
Israel: Mass movement against the Rule of Capital
"Just look at this ground shaking everywhere…"
Britain
Britain: Tottenham riots
Fatal police shooting sparks eruption of protest and anger
Syria
Syria: State unleashes new terror
The death toll is rising from the Syrian army’s brutal assault on the mass uprising in the city of Hama and other areas.
USA
USA: Default averted
After months of vicious manoeuvring between Republican and Democratic factions, the US Congress and president Obama agreed on a budget deal only hours before the deadline to raise the Federal government’s borrowing limit.
China
CWI Summer School: China on the verge of social explosion
Inner-party struggles as repression tightened
Europe
CWI Summer School: Economic, social and political crisis maturing together in Europe
The CWI School, which took place in Leuven, Belgium between 24 and 29 July, was opened by Peter Taaffe of the CWI’s International Secretariat on ‘Europe in turmoil, the youth revolt and the current stage […]
Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan: “We are not begging – we are demanding our rights!”
Working class beginning to lose fear
Greece
CWI Summer School: Greece in turmoil
Lessons of the Movement of the ’Enraged’
Middle East & North Africa
CWI Summer School: Revolution and Counter-Revolution in North Africa and Middle East
Report of plenary discussion