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Around the world

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!

Egypt

Egypt: Recent years of workers’ struggles the basis for today’s revolution

February 11, 2011 David Johnson, Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)

Militants struggling to build fighting, independent unions

Britain

Britain: Fight the cuts – whoever makes them

February 11, 2011 Editorial from The Socialist, paper of the Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)

The massive 27% cut in central government funding to local authorities is having devastating consequences.

Egypt

Egypt: Strike wave marks new stage of mass opposition to regime

February 10, 2011 Robert Bechert, CWI

Decisive action needed to block reaction and complete revolution

Middle East & North Africa

Yemen:” A political revolution must be connected to a social revolution”

February 10, 2011 CWI

Jonas Brännberg Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (CWI in Sweden) spoke to an exiled activist from Yemen about the situation.

Egypt

Egypt: Strikes, occupations and workers’ protests

February 10, 2011 David Johnson, Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)

Industrial action over pay, conditions and government-appointed union ‘leaders’

Britain

Britain: Justice for Unison Four

February 9, 2011 Glenn Kelly, from the Socialist, paper of the <a href="http://www.socialistparty.org.uk">Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)</a>

Four Socialist Party members were disciplined by Unison on trumped-up charges of racism, after producing a leaflet at the 2007 Unison conference, challenging the Standing Orders Committee (SOC) about ruling resolutions off the conference agenda.

Egypt

Egypt: Is revolution derailed?

February 8, 2011 Peter Taaffe, from The Socialist, newspaper of the Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)

Vital to build a mass party to realise aims of workers and small farmers

Egypt

Egypt: Friday 4 February – Millions join anti-Mubarak demonstrations

February 7, 2011 CWI reporter, Tahrir Square, Cairo

‘Week of Determination’ protests called

Britain

Britain: Support the Egyptian revolution

February 4, 2011 Socialist Party (CWI England and Wales) leaflet

Kick out Mubarak and his cronies

Egypt

Egypt: “Mubarak should answer for everything!”

February 4, 2011 CWI reporter, Tahrir Square, Cairo

This eyewitness account from a CWI reporter was despatched just before the big increase in the numbers of militant protesters swelling Tahrir Square, following Friday prayers.

Scotland

Scotland: Glasgow conference establishes Scottish Anti Cuts Alliance

February 3, 2011 Matt Dobson, <a href="http://www.socialistpartyscotland.org.uk/">Socialist Party Scotland</a> (CWI), Dundee

‘Opposition to all cuts, support for industrial action by workers and mass resistance’

Egypt

Egypt: The Mubarak regime hits back

February 3, 2011 Eyewitness report from a CWI reporter, Tahrir Square, Cairo

The mass movement must go on the offensive!

Britain

Britain: Facing a savage economic ice age’

February 2, 2011 Lynn Walsh, Socialist Party (CWI in England & Wales)

Dip reflects the fragility of British capitalism’s ‘recovery’

Egypt

Egypt: “We will not leave until he goes!”

February 2, 2011 Socialistworld.net

Eyewitness report from Cairo’s Tahrir Square[see: articles in Arabic | this article in Arabic]

Egypt

Egypt: Massive protest rallies in Cairo and Alexandria

February 1, 2011 socialistworld.net

Demonstrators demand Mubarak and his regime must go

Jordan

Jordan: Thousands gather in Amman to demand reforms and change

February 1, 2011 Khalid Bhatti, SMP (CWI in Pakistan)

Demonstrations continue despite the announcement of increased wages, subsidies and political reforms

Lebanon

Lebanon: No illusions in the new government

January 31, 2011 Tamer Mahdi, CWI Lebanon

The conflict is between two sides of the same coin!

Egypt

Egypt: Mass revolt forces Mubarak regime to the brink

January 31, 2011 David Johnson, <a href="http://www.socialistparty.org.uk">Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)</a> and Niall Mulholland, CWI

Hundreds of thousands remain on streets defying repression – For an indefinite general strike!

Pakistan

Pakistan: Sacked workers vent anger in Karachi

January 30, 2011 Syed Fazal Abbas, Secretary General TURCP and PWF, Rukhsana Manzoor Finance Secretary, TURCP – members of Socialist Movement Pakistan (SMP – CWI in Pakistan)

Stand off continues as workers’ siege of company headquarters enters third day

Egypt

Egypt: Revolutionary masses move to overthrow Mubarak dictatorship

January 28, 2011 Niall Mulholland, CWI

Regime deploys army on streets to try to crush mass movement

Scotland

Scotland: Tommy Sheridan jailed for 3 years

January 27, 2011 Statement from Socialist Party Scotland (CWI in Scotland)

Unprecedented political vendetta ends in draconian sentence

Italy

Italy: Metal-workers fight for all workers!

January 27, 2011 Marco Veruggio, ControCorrente

One day strike in engineering industry this Friday

Hong Kong

Hong Kong: LSD splits

January 27, 2011 Dikang, <a href="http://www.chinaworker.info">chinaworker.info</a>

Radical political force dealt a serious blow • Pro-Beijing camp jubilant

Egypt

Egypt: Biggest demonstrations for 30 years stuns Mubarak’s repressive regime

January 26, 2011 David Johnson, <a href="http://www.socialistparty.org.uk">Socialist Party (CWI England and Wales)</a>

“Tunisia is the solution”

Pakistan

Pakistan: Can Pakistan become a theocratic state?

January 26, 2011 Khalid Bhatti, general secretary of Socialist Movement Pakistan (SMP - CWI Pakistan)

Religion, politics and the working class

Lebanon

Lebanon:Hezbollah-led opposition takes majority in government

January 26, 2011 Aysha Zaki, Beirut, CWI Lebanon

For the building of a mass workers alternative against sectarianism, war and poverty

Israel / Palestine

Israel: ‘Haifa Chemicals’ workers’ demonstration

January 25, 2011 Yossi Weinstein, Socialist Struggle Movement (CWI in Israel)

A united struggle of Arab and Jewish workers against ‘contract labour’ and for decent wages.

Tunisia

Tunisia: Victory for the workers and the people!

January 24, 2011 Gauche Revolutionnaire (CWI in France)

The first phase of the revolution ousted Ben Ali! It must continue!

Britain

Britain: NSSN anti-cuts campaign launched

January 24, 2011 Judy Beishon, <a href="http://www.socialistparty.org.uk">Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)</a>

Nearly 600 people, mostly workers with elected positions in trade union branches, trades councils, workplaces and anti-cuts alliances, met in London on 22 January for the special anti-cuts conference of the National Shop Stewards Network […]

Britain

Britain: Discussing an NSSN anti-cuts campaign

January 22, 2011 The Socialist, paper of the <a href="http://www.socialistparty.org.uk">Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)</a> interviewed two Socialist Party members who are also NSSN officers, Bill Mullins (NSSN co-organiser) and Rob Williams

National Shop Stewards Network conference 22 January

Pakistan

Pakistan: Railway workers on the move

January 22, 2011 Rukhsana Manzoor finance secretary TURCP (Trade Union Rights Campaign Pakistan)

20,000 jobs under threat – protesting workers forced the authorities to retreat

Chile

Chile: Struggle over gas price hikes in Magallanes region

January 21, 2011 Celso Calfullan, Socialismo Revolucionario (CWI in Chile)

Follow their example of struggle

Pakistan

Pakistan: Protesting port workers occupied the Karachi port

January 21, 2011 A.K Memon, Progressive Workers’ Federation Karachi

Protesting port workers of Port Qasim in Karachi walked out and effectively took over the port on 17th of January.

Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan: EU – stop boosting Nazarbayev’s dictatorship

January 19, 2011 Joe Higgins, MEP, Socialist Party (CWI Ireland)

Protest against ’referendum’ on suspending presidential elections until 2020

Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan: Regime plans to cancel 2012 presidential elections

January 15, 2011 CWI Reporters, Kazakhstan

Parliament rubberstamps ‘referendum’ to postpone election until 2020

Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan: Clamp down on opposition press continues

January 14, 2011 CWI Reporters, Moscow

‘Voice of the Republic’ newspaper staff harassed and arrested

Britain

Britain: Student receives draconian sentence

January 14, 2011 Claire Laker Mansfield, <a href="http://www.socialiststudents.org.uk/">Socialist Students</a>

Defend the right to demonstrate

Tunisia

Tunisia: Down with the Ben Ali regime!

January 12, 2011 Translated version of an article first published on Gauche Révolutionnaire’s website (CWI in France)

Stop the repression, for international solidarity!

Britain

Britain: NSSN debate – The way forward for the anti-cuts movement

January 12, 2011 Hannah Sell, <a href="http://www.socialistparty.org.uk">Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)</a> deputy general secretary

How to defeat cuts and tax rises?

Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan: New Year fireworks outside cell of Esenbek Ukteshbayev

January 12, 2011 CWI Reporters, Moscow and Almaty

A thousand protests made worldwide against jailing of trade union and social activist

Pakistan

Pakistan: Punjab governor’s assassination silences another liberal voice

January 11, 2011 Khalid Bhatti, Socialist Movement Pakistan (CWI), Lahore

Religious extremism on the rise

Algeria

Maghreb: Tunisian revolt spreads to Algeria

January 10, 2011 Chahid Gashir, CWI

Solidarity with the Algerian and Tunisian masses!

Egypt

Egypt: Scores killed in New Year’s Eve bombing outside packed Coptic church

January 10, 2011 David Johnson, <a href="http://www.socialistparty.org.uk">Socialist Party (CWI England and Wales)</a>

Protests and creation of independent unions show potential for workers’ unity

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