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Around the world

Britain

Britain: Now facing crisis on all fronts

May 22, 2011 Peter Taaffe, <a href="http://www.socialistparty.org.uk">Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)</a> general secretary, from the <a href="http://www.socialistparty.org.uk/issue/671">Socialist newspaper, 18 May</a>

Under the cover of the crisis an unprecedented offensive against the rights and conditions of the working class is underway.

Israel / Palestine

Palestine: Nakba Day sparks mass protests

May 21, 2011 Shahar Ben-Khorin, Socialist Struggle Movement (CWI Israel/Palestine) and Kai Stein (CWI)

Arab revolutions inspire new generation to fight Israeli occupation

Spain

Spain: Youth movement spreading

May 20, 2011 <a href="http://srev.blogspot.com/2011/05/una-potente-novena-huelga-general.html">CWI reporters, Spain</a>

“I do not want to be a slave to this system”[to watch a live stream from Puerta del Sol go to SOL TV]

Italy

Italy: Berlusconi defeated in local elections

May 20, 2011 Written for Resistenze, publication of <a href="http://www.controcorrentesinistraprc.org/">ControCorrente</a> by Marco Veruggio (National Spokesperson ControCorrente)

Left in Turin loses an opportunity

Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka: Rajapaksa’s world school of brutality

May 20, 2011 Manny Thain, <a href="http://www.tamilsolidarity.org/">Tamil Solidarity</a> national secretary, Britain

Tamil Solidarity exposes the arrogant way Rajapaksa answers the UN report

Spain

Spain: Youth protesters’ ‘Tahrir Square’ occupation

May 19, 2011 CWI reporters, Spain

“May 15 movement” holds country-wide demonstrations

Europe

Eurozone: Crisis deepens

May 19, 2011 Editorial of the Socialist, paper of the <a href="http://www.socialistparty.org.uk">Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)</a>

The Greek bailout implemented last year has not worked. Greece, moreover, is far from being an isolated case.

Pakistan

Pakistan: EU fails flood victims

May 17, 2011 Paul Murphy, MEP, Socialist Party (CWI Ireland)

Unless the trade unions take control of allcoating aid and assistance, the preferences will only end up lining the pockets of the corrupt Pakistani ruling class.

Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka: “Tamil Solidarity” comments on the UN panel report

May 16, 2011 <a href="http://www.tamilsolidarity.org">Tamil Solidarity</a>

The CWI supports the struggle of Tamil Solidarity and others for the rights of all workers and oppressed people in Sri Lanka.

Iceland

Report from Iceland: The aftermath of the “crash”

May 15, 2011 Paul Murphy, MEP, Socialist Party (CWI Ireland)

The desperate need for a clear lead to re-develop the movement

Bahrain

Bahrain repression: Muted criticism of West’s ally

May 15, 2011 John Sharpe, from the Socialist, paper of the Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)

The vicious regime in Bahrain has arrested and detained doctors and medical staff for treating injured protesters during recent clashes with security forces.

Tunisia

Tunisia: “We need a second revolution!”

May 14, 2011 Gauche Revolutionnaire (CWI in France)

Growing threat of counter-revolution as roots of the old regime still remain

Israel / Palestine

Israel: Haifa Chemical workers strike to end division between workers and increase wages

May 13, 2011 Interview with Shay Galy, union representative of “Power to the Workers” and member of Socialist Struggle Movement (CWI Israel)

International solidarity needed

Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka: UN report on war crimes

May 13, 2011 Paul Murphy, MEP, Socialist Party (CWI Ireland)

Socialist Party MEP speaks

India

India: Flying Pilots flex their class Muscles

May 13, 2011 Anand Kumar, Mumbai, New Socialist Alternative (CWI India)

The 10 day pilot strike that has rocked the troubled national carrier – Air India has ended with a partial victory of sorts for the pilots

Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan: Successful opposition activists’ conference

May 12, 2011 CWI reporters

‘Kazakhstan 2012’ becomes ‘Socialist Movement Kazakhstan’

Japan

Japan: Anti-nuclear power protest on May Day

May 12, 2011 Kokusai Rentai (CWI Japan)

Two months after the beginning of the Fukushima disaster, the anger in Japan is growing

Britain

Britain: Government Con-Demned at ballot box

May 12, 2011 From socialistparty.org.uk, the website of the <a href="http://www.socialistparty.org.uk">Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)</a>

The root of the government’s weakness is the continuing profound crisis of capitalism in general and British capitalism in particular

Canada

Canada: Politics changed following Federal elections

May 10, 2011 Socialist Alternative reporter, B.C

Liberal vote collapses – social democratic NDP jumps to become official opposition

Scotland

Scotland: Scottish National Party (SNP) wins landslide election victory…

May 10, 2011 Philip Stott, Socialist Party Scotland (CWI), Dundee

But majority government of savage cuts will meet working class resistance

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

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