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Around the world

Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan: Free Esenbek Ukteshbayev!

March 18, 2011 Socialistworld.net

Step up protests over arrests and fines

Jordan

Jordan: Thousands protest in Amman

March 17, 2011 Rukhsana Manzoor, CWI Lahore

Reforms do not go far enough

Bahrain

Bahrain: State forces brutally attack protesters

March 16, 2011 Khalid Bhatti, SMP (CWI Pakistan) Lahore

Autocratic regime invites Saudi Arabia forces to help quell protests

Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia: Telecom workers take strike action

March 16, 2011 Khalid Bhatti, SMP (CWI Pakistan)

First drop of a coming rain storm

Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia: ‘Day of Rage’

March 15, 2011 Khalid Bhatti Socialist Movement Pakistan (CWI), Lahore

Thousands of police deployed on streets to stop protests

Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan – solidarity needed: Hundreds of opposition activists march in Astana

March 15, 2011 CWI

Many arrested, seven, including Esenbek Ukteshbaev, get 15 days imprisonment

Tunisia

Tunisia: A fragile pause in the revolution

March 15, 2011 Tim Martyn, Socialist Party, (CWI, England and Wales) recently in Tunisia

‘You come back – we come back!’

Japan

Japan: Disaster hits workers hardest

March 15, 2011 Carl Simmons, Kokusai Rentai (International Solidarity - CWI in Japan)

Rebuilding should not serve the interests of private developers

Japan

Japan: Earthquake could leave “tens of thousands” dead and nuclear threat

March 14, 2011 Reporters in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan, from <a href="http://www.chinaworker.info">chinaworker.info</a>

Capitalist system incapable of facing up to natural disasters

Italy

Italy: Beyond the scandals

March 12, 2011 Piero Acquilino, ControCorrente, Genoa

A fighting alternative to Berlusconi is needed

Egypt

Egypt: Armed clashes between Muslims and Coptic Christians

March 12, 2011 David Johnson, <a href="http://www.socialistparty.org.uk">Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)</a>

Counter-revolution strikes – old regime has not given up

Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan: April Presidential ‘election’ announced

March 11, 2011 Socialist Resistance (CWI in Kazakhstan) reporters

Opposition protest movements call for boycott of dictator’s fake poll

Iran

Iran: Thousands out on 8 March

March 10, 2011 Hamid Azar, from Offensiv (weekly paper of Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna - CWI in Sweden)

Major conflicts within the regime

Hong Kong

Hong Kong: Budget backlash grows

March 10, 2011 Dikang, Socialist Action

“Biggest political crisis since 2003”

Lebanon

Lebanon: “Down with the sectarian system”

March 9, 2011 CWI Lebanon

Against sectarianism and capitalism – for a workers alternative!

Italy

Italy: A million march against sexism

March 9, 2011 Christine Thomas, Controcorrente (CWI Italy)

On 13 February, one million women (and men) marched in 230 towns and cities across Italy.

Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka: War Heroes Were Needed, but War Widows Are Discarded

March 9, 2011 Dhammika de Silva (USP Central Committee Member)

The genocidal war in the north and east of Sri Lanka, which ended in May 2009, has created more than 68,000 widows. On the other hand, there are another 30,000 widows in the southern part […]

India

India: One woman’s struggle against oppression

March 9, 2011 <a href="http://www.socialism.in/">New Socialist Alternative (CWI India)</a>

Extraordinary stand against the brutal state and draconian powers

Britain

Britain: Women ‘Condem-ned’

March 9, 2011 Jane James, <a href="http://www.socialistparty.org.uk">Socialist Party (CWI England and Wales)</a>

Conservative – Liberal Democrat government cuts devastating impact on women

Hong Kong

International Women’s Day: Indonesian migrant workers in Hong Kong

March 9, 2011 Siu Fei and Vincent Kolo, <a href="http://www.chinaworker.info">chinaworker.info</a>

Protests focus on migrants’ rights – abuse and torture of Indonesian migrants abroad

Middle East & North Africa

North Africa / Middle East: Challenges to rule of kings and dictators continue

March 8, 2011 Peter Taaffe, General Secretary, Socialist Party (CWI in England & Wales)

Herculean efforts to remove Gaddafi dictatorship in Libya

Venezuela

Venezuela: Ruben Gonzalez freed!

March 8, 2011 Johan Rivas, Socialismo Revolucionario (CWI in Venezuela)

Mass campaign and threat of general strike sees persecuted workers’ leader released

Venezuela

Women in Venezuela: Reforms under attack

March 8, 2011 Denise Dudley, Socialismo Revolucionario, (CIT/ CWI Venezuela)

Economic crisis sees clawing back of reforms for women

Egypt

Egypt: “Some skin has been peeled off, but the body survives”

March 7, 2011 Eye-witness report from Cairo

Another mighty demonstration demands real regime change

Hong Kong

Hong Kong: Women fight discrimination and social injustice

March 7, 2011 Socialist Action, CWI Hong Kong

Women, especially working class women, have many reasons to be angry with how society is run today.

Libya

Libya: Border guard of the European Union

March 6, 2011 Per-Åke Westerlund, Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (CWI Sweden)

Imperialism wants to keep control over oil resources

Britain

Britain: The cutbacks and the fightback

March 5, 2011 Hannah Sell, Socialist Party (CWI in England & Wales) from Socialism Today, Issue 146

Britain braced for massive 26 March demonstration

Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia: Protests begin as “Day of rage” called for 11 March

March 4, 2011 Rukhsana Manzoor and Khalid Bhatti, SMP (CWI in Pakistan)

Founders of new activists’ party detained

Britain

Britain: Socialist Party 2011 congress

March 4, 2011 Sarah Sachs-Eldridge, <a href="http://www.socialistparty.org.uk">Socialist Party (CWI England and Wales)</a>

A party growing in strength

Iraq

Iraq: 2,000 on Bagdad demo

March 3, 2011 Abbas Sdiq, CWI Sweden

“We have no jobs, electricity – nothing”

Iran

Iran: Tens of thousands protest on 1 March

March 3, 2011 Hamid Azar, from Offensiv, weekly paper of Rttvisepartiet Socialisterna (CWI Sweden)

Regular protests planned for Tuesdays

Middle East & North Africa

Oman: Two weeks of protests in absolute monarchy

March 1, 2011 Yemeni socialist

Police kill demonstrators – workers block oil port

USA

USA: Largest protest yet against Wisconsin Governor’s anti-union bill

March 1, 2011 Robert Bechert, CWI

Enthusiastic response to call for a public sector general strike

Libya

Libya: Gaddafi must go! It’s a fight to the finish

February 28, 2011 Niall Mulholland, CWI

Masses reject foreign intervention as towns fall to opposition

Britain

Students in Britain: Following on from the first wave of struggle

February 24, 2011 Ben Robinson, <a href="http://www.socialistparty.org.uk">Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)</a>, first published in <a href="http://www.socialismtoday.org/">Socialism Today</a>

IN THE space of one month, the way young people are viewed by the mass media – and by themselves – was turned upside down.

Iran

Iran: New protests challenge brutal repression

February 23, 2011 Hamid Azar, from ‘Offensiv’, weekly newspaper of Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (CWI Sweden)

General strike in Iranian-Kurdistan

Middle East & North Africa

North Africa/Middle East: Region-wide revolution of the Arab people

February 21, 2011 Peter Taaffe, from The Socialist, newspaper of the Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)

To fully succeed, revolutions need to go beyond framework of capitalism

Bahrain

Bahrain: Protesters remain defiant

February 21, 2011 Khalid Bhatti Socialist Movement Pakistan (SMP) Lahore

Brutal attacks and repression fail to stop demonstrations

Egypt

Egypt: Workers are demonstrating their strength

February 21, 2011 Eyewitness reports, Socialistworld.net

The Egyptian February – class conflict sharpens

Britain

Britain: A new year of struggle

February 21, 2011 Peter Taaffe, <a href="http://www.socialistparty.org.uk">Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)</a> general secretary, first published in <a href="http://www.socialismtoday.org/">Socialism Today</a>

Dramatic changes have affected Britain. The student protests of last year set the scene. Now the prospect of significant industrial action against savage public-sector cutbacks is on the agenda.

Egypt

Egypt: After Mubarak – Strikes and protests-Part2

February 20, 2011 Eyewitness reports, Socialistworld.net

Hawamdiya Sugar Factory Protest

Nigeria

Nigeria: Heading for another round of rigged elections

February 20, 2011 Segun Sango, <a href="http://www.socialistnigeria.org">DSM (CWI Nigeria)</a> General Secretary

New voters’ registration for election in April: Same old organisational and political problems

Egypt

Egypt: After Mubarak – Strikes and protests-Part1

February 19, 2011 CWI Reporter,Cairo

Week of escalating worker’s actions

Pakistan

Pakistan: Airlines workers win

February 18, 2011 Khalid Bhatti, Socialist Movement Pakistan, Lahore

Four-day strike called off. Government accepted all three demands

Pakistan

Pakistan: Victory for KESC workers

February 17, 2011 Fazal Abbas Shah, secretary general TURCP and PWF, Lahore

4,500 sacked workers reinstated

Egypt

Egypt: Where now for the Egyptian revolution?

February 17, 2011 Peter Taaffe, from Socialism Today, March 2011 (Monthly journal of the Socialist Party, England and Wales)

Authoritarian regimes in Middle East fear for their rotten rule

Egypt

Egypt: The Egyptian working class enters the revolutionary process

February 16, 2011 CWI reporter in Cairo, 14-02-2011

Class confrontations are challenging the regime and the whole system

Egypt

Egypt: CWI leaflet distributed in Egypt after February 12

February 16, 2011 socialistworld.net

In Solidarity with the Egyptian Revolution

Egypt

Egypt: Revolution must continue

February 15, 2011 Peter Taaffe, editorial from ‘The Socialist’, paper of the <a href="http://www.socialistparty.org.uk">Socialist Party (CWI England and Wales)</a>

Army cannot guarantee democracy

Egypt

Egypt: Mubarak goes – clear out the entire regime!

February 11, 2011 Robert Bechert, CWI

No trust in the military chiefs! For a government of the representatives of workers, small farmers and the poor!

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