Middle East & North Africa
Middle East: Dubai financial city becomes ghost town
Arab summit sees nothing on offer for working people and poor
Around the world
Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka: Catastrophe in the north
Spoil Sri Lankan government’s ‘Freedom Day’ celebrations!
Britain
Britain: What’s really behind the Lindsey Oil Refinery strike
Strike action spreads – defend rights, wages and conditions!
Britain
Britain: Strikes spread throughout refinery and power industry
Demands proposed by Socialist Party supporters agreed by mass meeting
France
France: Millions strike against Sarkozy’s policies
Movement already larger than in 2006 and the beginning of the general strike of 1995
Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka: Quarter of a million civilians trapped in war zone
Socialists demand action to end the nightmare
Italy
Italy: Right split from ‘Rifondazione comunista’ proceeds, but slowly!
Controcorrente pushes party to break from coalition and capitalist politics
Iceland
Iceland: Students make their voice heard in Reykjavik
CWI speaks to left-wing students in country devastated by capitalist crisis.
Bolivia
Bolivia: New Constitution approved
Organise and struggle for socialism!
Britain
Britain: Era of illusions in capitalism ending
Government fails to find a way out of crisis