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Around the world

Israel / Palestine

Palestine: Paul Murphy Socialist Party MEP joins ‘Freedom Flotilla II’

June 24, 2011 Interview with Paul Murphy by Socialistworld.net

“Aim of Flotilla to break siege and highlight blockade impact on Gaza population”

Chile

Chile: Mass student protests erupt

June 23, 2011 CWI

Largest protest movement for more than 20 years

Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan: London embassy protest

June 22, 2011 Socialist Party reporters (CWI England and Wales), London

Stop repression of striking oil and gas workers!

Britain

Britain: Public sector pension attack

June 22, 2011 John McInally, National Vice-President Public and Commercial Services Union (personal capacity), from The Socialist newspaper

Public sector and education unions call 24 hour strike on 30 June

Greece

Greece: Debt crisis threatens worldwide banking system

June 22, 2011 Niall Mulholland, from The Socialist (weekly paper of the <a href="http://www.socialistparty.org.uk">Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)</a>

Workers resist Pasok’s savage cuts and privatisation programme

Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan: Life of workers’ leader, Esenbek Ukteshbayev, in danger

June 21, 2011 CWI reporters, Kazakhstan

Strikes of oil and gas workers continue; other workers follow lead

Spain

Spain: New explosion of 15-M movement on 19 June

June 21, 2011 Danny Byrne, CWI

Step up the fight for a general strike!

India

India: Assembly elections in five states

June 21, 2011 Jagadish Chandra, New Socialist Alternative (CWI, India)

’Communists’ defeated in Kerala as well as West Bengal

Czech Republic

Czech Republic: Transport workers lead 24 hour strike

June 20, 2011 Toby Dite, Prague

Resistance to coalition government’s cuts

Canada

Canada: Postal and Air Canada workers take strike action

June 17, 2011 Clare Hudson, Socialist Alternative (CWI Canada), B.C

Disputes over pensions, pay and deregulation show underlying discontent

Egypt

Egypt: After January 25th uprising…disappointment at speed of change

June 16, 2011 By a recent CWI visitor to Cairo

Mass party needed to unite workers, youth and poor around socialist policies

Spain

Spain: The movement is not dead!

June 16, 2011 Socialismo Revolucionario (CWI in Spain) reporters, Barcelona

MPs forced to enter Catalan parliament in helicopters

Europe

Europe: Left MEPs’ Open letter of solidarity and support for resistance to austerity

June 15, 2011 By Paul Murphy, Socialist Party MEP, and 11 other members of the European United Left / Nordic Green Left (GUE/NGL) in the European Parliament

“Turn 21 June into a day of mass protests and strikes”

Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan: Authorities take revenge against striker’s wives and female workers

June 15, 2011 CWI reporter, Kazakhstan

16th June – Day of Solidarity!

Italy

Italy: Referendum blow to Berlusconi

June 15, 2011 Christine Thomas, Controcorrente (CWI in Italy)

Second major defeat for beleaguered government

Britain

Britain: National Shop Stewards Network conference

June 14, 2011 Linda Taaffe, NSSN secretary

Serious and inspiring preparation for the battles to come

Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan: War of nerves as authorities prepare to use force

June 12, 2011 CWI reporters, Kazakhstan

Strikes spread – solidarity action needs to be stepped up

Britain

Britain: Young, gifted and striking back

June 11, 2011 Ben Robinson, Socialist Party (CWI England and Wales)

The significance of the student movement

Britain

Britain: Economic crisis in ‘them and us’ Britain

June 11, 2011 Editorial of the Socialist, paper of the <a href="http://www.socialistparty.org.uk/articles/12195/08-06-2011/economic-crisis-in-them-and-us-britain">Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)</a>

Wages fall: Office for National Statistics 2010 survey of hours and earnings

No Picture
South Africa

South Africa: Small but significant steps towards raising independent working class voice at local government elections May 2011

June 11, 2011 Liv Shange, Democratic Socialist Movement, South African affiliate of the CWI

ANC retains big majority but political authority weakened

No Picture
South Africa

South Africa – solidarity needed: 1,400 Rustenburg mine workers still sacked

June 10, 2011 By Liv Shange, Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM), South African affiliate of the CWI

After striking for the right to elect their own shop stewards the workers are attacked by both – the mine- and trade union bosses!

Spain

Spain: Police repression against protestors in Valencia

June 10, 2011 Socialismo Revolucionario (CWI in Spain) reporters

Movement will not be broken by brute force!

Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka: Workers protest against pension bill

June 10, 2011 CWI reporters, Sri Lanka

Rajapakse regime shoots peaceful workers

Europe

Europe: Protests grow as young people say: ‘We want a future!’

June 9, 2011 International Socialist Resistance (ISR)

New ’International Socialist Resistance’ blog launched

Egypt

Egypt: Hundreds mark police killing of Khalid Saied

June 9, 2011 CWI Reporter, Cairo

Struggle against state repression continues under

Peru

Peru: Major defeat for traditional parties in president elections

June 9, 2011 CWI

The second round of Peru’s Presidential election on Sunday 7th June has resulted in a victory for the radical nationalist Ollanta Humala.

Balkans

Bosnia: ‘Butcher of Bosnia’ Mladic faces trial

June 8, 2011 Judy Beishon (Socialist Party, CWI England and Wales)

But western powers also have blood on their hands

Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan: Oil and gas strikers force release of comrades from police detention

June 7, 2011 CWI members Kazakhstan

But strikers’ lawyer Natalia Sokolova remains under arrest

Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka: Successful Hearing at European Parliament

June 7, 2011 Manny Thain, national co-ordinator, UK, Tamil Solidarity

Tamil representatives, solidarity and human rights campaigns and individual activists converged on the European parliament on Wednesday (1 June)

Spain

Spain: 15-M movement opens gates to new stage of struggle

June 6, 2011 Danny Byrne, CWI

What organisation, strategy and politics does the situation demand?

Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan: Oil workers demonstration broken up

June 6, 2011 CWI reporters, Kazakhstan

Hundreds detained and beaten – Natalia Sokolova still missing – Urgent solidarity needed

Italy

Italian revolution: ‘Democrazia reale adesso’

June 2, 2011 CWI reporters, Italy

Rome, Turin, Naples, Milan, Reggio Emilia, Padova, Palermo, Brescia, Trieste, Venice, Cagliari, Viareggio, Pavia, Florence, Sassari, Verona, Lecce, Bologna, Pisa – this is a rough list of the major cities where the “Italian revolution” movement […]

Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan: Workers strike solid

June 2, 2011 CWI reporters, Kazakhstan

Lawyer arrested, new address for solidarity messages needed

Middle East & North Africa

North Africa, Middle East: The revolution four months later

June 2, 2011 Robert Bechert, CWI

Across the Middle East and North Africa the revolutions and protests that began after Mohamed Bouazizi’s suicide in protest at poverty and oppression in Tunisia have, in many countries, reached turning points.

Libya

Libya: The ‘no-fly zone’, the Left and the ‘Third Camp’

June 2, 2011 Peter Taaffe, general secretary of the Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)

How to support the genuine forces in the uprising in Libya? – A Second Reply to the AWL

Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan: Solidarity needed for striking oil workers

June 1, 2011 CWI reporters Kazakhstan

What started as a hunger strike by a relatively small number of oil workers in the town of Karazhanbasa in West Kazakhstan last week has now turned into a mass strike – now over fifteen […]

Britain

Video: A World in Crisis

June 1, 2011 Video with Lynn Walsh, editor of Socialism Today (magazin of the Socialist Party - CWI England & Wales)

Lynn Walsh is speaking on the situation in Britain, the world economy and international perspectives

Spain

Spain: Repression overcome in Barcelona

May 29, 2011 Socialismo Revolucionario (CWI in Spain) reporters, Barcelona

Heroic re-taking of Plaza de Catalunya shows movements continued vitality

Canada

Canada: Electoral rollercoaster

May 28, 2011 Andrew Messing, Socialist Alternative (CWI Canada) and Niall Mulholland (CWI), from June 2011 issue of <a href="http://www.socialismtoday.org/">Socialism Today</a>

Big gains for New Democratic Party (NDP) – But is it an alternative for working people?

Spain

Spain: Spanish riot police moving against protesters

May 27, 2011 Paul Murphy, MEP

Video of police brutally clearing square in Barcelona

Greece

Eurozone: Greek drama continues…

May 27, 2011 Lynn Walsh, editor of <a href="http://www.socialismtoday.org/">Socialism Today</a>, magazine of the <a href="http://www.socialistparty.org.uk">Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)</a>

Greece’s economic crisis deepens – along with Ireland, Portugal and Spain

Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan: More blood on the hands of Kazakhstan’s banks

May 27, 2011 CWI reporters, Kazakhstan

But resistance grows – oil workers strike

Europe

Europe: Struggling to save the eurozone

May 26, 2011 Lynn Walsh, editor of <a href="http://www.socialismtoday.org/">Socialism Today</a>, magazine of the <a href="http://www.socialistparty.org.uk">Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)</a>

Governments have no mechanism for dealing with the crisis

Italy

Italy: Walk-outs and battles with police

May 25, 2011 Marco Veruggio, Controcorrente, reports from Genoa

After FIAT, now the shipyard workers’ struggle

France

France: Pre-Summit protest in Le Havre

May 25, 2011 Alex Lecoq, Gauche Révolutionnaire, (CWI France)

‘G8 Dégage (get out)’!

Britain

Britain: Facing crisis on all fronts – Socialist Party video

May 25, 2011 Interview with Peter Taaffe, <a href="http://www.socialistparty.org.uk">Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)</a> general secretary

A massive social and political revolt is brewing in Britain, argues Peter Taaffe

Spain

Spain: Youth revolt shakes political elite

May 24, 2011 John Hird, Socialismo Revolucionario, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Basque country

Indignados are a new factor in Spanish politics

Libya

Libya: Nato’s Libya intervention debated

May 24, 2011 Letter by Chris Fernandez, from Darby, replied by Peter Taaffe, general secretary Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)

An exchange on how to support the genuine forces in the uprising in Libya

Egypt

Egypt: Between revolution and dictatorship

May 24, 2011 Eye-witness report from Cairo

Violent inter-religious conflict exploited by regime

Spain

Spain: This is what democracy looks like!

May 23, 2011 CWI reporters, Spain

Elections take place amid youth revolt

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