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Around the world

Europe

EU commission: Less democracy to facilitate economic shock doctrine

May 7, 2011 Paul Murphy, MEP, Socialist Party (CWI Ireland)

A “silent revolution” is underway in the European Union according to Commission President Barosso. This counter-revolution of “economic governance” involves a further diminution of democracy in order to facilitate the imposition of a European “shock […]

Nigeria

Nigeria: The 2011 General Elections and the Working People

May 6, 2011 Segun Sango, General Secretary, Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI in Nigeria)

On three different dates, April 9, April 16 and April 26, Nigeria held the general elections to elect politicians that would control power at central and state levels for the next four years.

Ireland North

Northern Ireland: 30th anniversary of the death of hunger striker Bobby Sands

May 5, 2011 Reprint articles by Tony Saunois and Peter Hadden and introduction (<a href="http://www.socialismtoday.org/">Socialism Today</a>, May 2011 issue)

Thatcher’s brutal prisons regime

Germany

Germany: Berlin hospital workers on strike

May 5, 2011 Sascha Stanicic, <a href="http://www.sozialismus.info">SAV (CWI Germany)</a> reports from the picket line

2,500 on strike demo

Pakistan

US / Pakistan: Osama Bin Laden – killed by US forces

May 2, 2011 Tony Saunois, CWI

The US government has announced a successful military assault on a large mansion in Abbottabad, near Islamabad, which has resulted in the killing of Osama Bin Laden.

Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan: May Day marked by attacks on CWI activists and supporters

May 2, 2011 CWI

Ainur Kurmanov hospitalized.

Britain

Britain’s royal wedding: Not much bread but there’s plenty of circuses

April 29, 2011 Derek McMillan, Our Royal Correspondent, from the Socialist, paper of the <a href="http://www.socialistparty.org.uk">Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)</a>

Witness the media torrent of sickly sentimentality over the royal wedding.

Syria

Syria: Assad orders brutal crackdown against opposition

April 28, 2011 Robert Bechert, CWI

Only a united struggle of the masses can defeat regime

Iran

Iran: Victory for oil workers on strike

April 27, 2011 Hamid Azar. From Offensiv, weekly paper of Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (CWI Sweden)

May Day next day of mass protests

Ukraine

Chernobyl disaster: 25th anniversary

April 26, 2011 Rob Jones, Moscow

Scientists estimate nuclear fall-out caused over 200,000 deaths

Jordan

Jordan: No illusions in regime’s promised ‘reforms’

April 24, 2011 CWI reporter, Amman

Need to build united workers’ alternative as social and political tensions grow

Libya

War: What is it good for? Arms sales!

April 23, 2011 Rob Bishop, from the Socialist, paper of the <a href="http://www.socialistparty.org.uk">Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)</a>

Arms manufacturers are excited by the Libyan conflict as it will lead to increased sales and profits.

Belarus

Belarus: Bomb attack on Minsk metro leaves 13 dead

April 22, 2011 Lev R., CWI Belarus

President Lukashenko uses outrage to attack working class

Finland

Finland: Massive protest vote in elections

April 21, 2011 Rattvisepartiet Socialisterna (CWI in Sweden)

Right wing populist ‘True Finns’ third biggest party

France

France: Sarkozy instigates ban on veil to boost his political ratings

April 21, 2011 Judy Beishon, from the Socialist, paper of the <a href="http://www.socialistparty.org.uk">Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)</a>

What attitude should socialists adopt in defending women’s rights?

Libya

Libya: The ‘no-fly zone’ and the Left

April 20, 2011 Peter Taaffe, from <a href="http://www.socialismtoday.org/">Socialism Today</a>, monthly magazine of the <a href="http://www.socialistparty.org.uk">Socialist Party (CWI England and Wales)</a>

US overstretch and uncertainty

Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka: Another rigged election

April 20, 2011 Siritunga Jayasuriya, <a href="http://www.lankasocialist.com/">United Socialist Party (CWI, Sri Lanka)</a>

What is the way forward now?

Swaziland (Eswatini)

SWAZILAND | King Mswati’s security forces suppress April protests

April 19, 2011 Sheri Hamilton, Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI in South Africa)

Desperate economic situation exacerbated by world capitalist crisis

Libya

Libya: ‘Humanitarian aid’ covers increased western intervention

April 19, 2011 Robert Bechert, CWI

Libyan workers and youth must rely on their own strength

Britain

Britain: NSSN anti-cuts strategy vindicated

April 19, 2011 Hannah Sell, <a href="http://www.socialistparty.org.uk">Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)</a> deputy general secretary

Developments in SWP confirm Socialist Party’s arguments for NSSN anti-cuts campaign

Finland

Finland: Protest against racist polices of True Finns party

April 18, 2011 Sosialistinen Vaitoehto (CWI supporters in Finland) and Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (CWI Sweden) reporters

Following last Sunday’s parliamentary election in Finland, talks are taking place on forming a coalition government. The results saw a big increase in support for the anti-immigrant, rightwing populist True Finns party, gaining 19.0% (39 […]

Pakistan

Pakistan: EU Trade Commissioner questioned on Pakistan and food speculation

April 17, 2011 Paul Murphy, MEP, <a href="http://www.socialistparty.net/">Socialist Party (CWI Ireland)</a>

Paul Murphy questions EU Trade Commissioner Karel de Gucht on the worsening situation in Pakistan after last year’s flooding, the role of speculation in food prices and its impact on the poor

Britain

Britain: Con-Dems’ economic policy … austerity, austerity, austerity!

April 16, 2011 Lynn Walsh, Editor of <a href="http://www.socialismtoday.org/">Socialism Today</a>

’The worst is yet to come’

Ireland North

Northern Ireland: Socialist Party political broadcast

April 16, 2011 socialistworld.net

Vote against cuts in 5 May elections

Algeria

Algeria: Spring of discontent

April 15, 2011 Socialistworld.net

Big student demo in Algiers defies ban on demonstrations

Qatar

Libya: “Contact group” meeting in Qatar

April 14, 2011 Robert Bechert, CWI

Unelected ‘friends of democracy’ show NATO’s hypocrisy

Europe

World & Europe: New period of instability and revolutions

April 14, 2011 International Secretariat of the CWI

Thesis of the European bureau of the CWI

Middle East & North Africa

Middle East and North Africa: Revolutions in danger

April 13, 2011 Robert Bechert, CWI

Decisive workers’ action necessary

Iceland

Iceland: “We will not pay for the bankers’ crisis”

April 12, 2011 Per-Åke Westerlund (CWI Sweden)

Nearly two thirds of Icelanders say ‘No!’ to Icesave deal

Britain

Britain: What next after the mass demonstration of March 26?

April 10, 2011 Peter Taaffe on Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales) meeting in London

Peter Taaffe, Socialist Party general secretary, was the final platform speaker at a London aggregate to discuss the prospects of the trade union and anti-cuts movement

Egypt

Egypt: Nasser and Arab nationalism

April 6, 2011 David Johnson, from April 2011 issue of Socialism Today, monthly magazine of the Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)

Lessons for today’s revolution

Canada

Canada: Federal elections called for 2 May

April 5, 2011 Clare Hudson, Socialist Alternative, BC

Outgoing Harper government presided over price hikes, sell-offs and foreign wars

Britain

Britain: After 26 March demonstration

April 4, 2011 Editorial from <a href="http://www.socialismtoday.org/">Socialism Today</a>, magazine of the Socialist Party (CWI in England & Wales)

For a 24 hour general strike!

Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan: Esenbek Ukteshbayev met with flowers and solidarity

April 3, 2011 Socialist Resistance (Kazakhstan) reporters

Opposition activist released after international protest campaign

Scotland

Scotland: Anti-cuts and socialist election challenge launched

April 1, 2011 Philip Stott, <a href="http://www.socialistpartyscotland.org.uk">Socialist Party Scotland</a>

Whichever combination of party’s form the next Scottish government, it will be a government that will attempt to carry through the deepest cuts in decades.

Germany

Germany: “Green wave“

March 31, 2011 Sascha Stanicic, SAV (CWI in Germany)

Mass protest against nuclear energy, Green Party victory in regional elections

Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan: Embassy protests over jailing of opposition activist

March 31, 2011 Aron Amm (CWI Germany) and CWI reporters, Stockholm

Lively pickets in Berlin and Stockholm

Libya

Libya: Defend the revolution! No to imperialist intervention!

March 30, 2011 Robert Bechert, CWI

Build an independent force of workers and the poor

Egypt

Egypt: ‘Yes’ vote for referendum on constitutional amendments

March 29, 2011 David Johnson (CWI England and Wales)

Genuine democracy needed to make real political and social change

Syria

Syria: The masses awaken

March 29, 2011 Georg Maier, SLP (CWI in Austria)

Bloody repression fails to stop protests

Jordan

Jordan: Regime unleashes violence against anti-government protests

March 28, 2011 CWI reporter, Amman, Jordan

Regime ‘reforms’ fail to stop growing demonstrations

Britain

Britain: 700,000 – biggest workers’ demonstration in decades

March 28, 2011 Hannah Sell, <a href="http://www.socialistparty.org.uk">Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)</a>

The massive Trade Union Congress (TUC – trade union federation) demonstration against public spending cuts was well over half a million strong, possibly 700,000 or more.

Britain

Britain: What has socialism got to do with fighting the cuts?

March 27, 2011 Tom Pearse, Socialist Party (CWI in England & Wales)

How to fight austerity and capitalism

Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan: Police harass opposition protesters

March 26, 2011 For solidarity - new police repression

Picket in Central Almaty in support of Esenbek Ukteshbayev

Japan

After Japan’s tsunami disaster: Nuclear power, no way!

March 26, 2011 From The Socialist, paper of the <a href="http://www.socialistparty.org.uk">Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)</a>

The earthquake off Japan’s east coast and the giant tsunami wave that followed on 11 March has, at the time of writing, officially killed over 8,500 people with another 13,000 people still missing.

Germany

Germany: Mass protests against nuclear energy

March 24, 2011 Sascha Stanicic, <a href="http://www.sozialismus.info">SAV (CWI Germany)</a>, Berlin

Government pushed into defensive by Fukushima disaster and mass unrest

Libya

Libya: Stop the bombing – No to foreign intervention!

March 23, 2011 Robert Bechert, Committee for a Workers’ International

Build an independent movement of workers, the poor and youth

Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan: Presidential election farce

March 23, 2011 CWI reporters, Kazakhstan

Opposition activist Esenbeck Ukteshbayev jailed – Call for protest pickets on 28 March

Japan

Japan: Political fall-out as Kan looks for allies

March 22, 2011 Carl Simmons, Kokusai Rentai (CWI Japan)

No to national unity on the bosses’ terms

Hong Kong

Hong Kong: Protest against nuclear power

March 22, 2011 <a href="http://www.chinaworker.info">chinaworker.info</a>

On Sunday 20 March protesters marched from Hong Kong’s Chater Garden to the city’s Japanese Consulate. “Against nuclear power,” they chanted, and “be active, not radioactive” followed by a big cordon of TV crews and […]

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