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Spain: This is what democracy looks like!

May 23, 2011 CWI reporters, Spain

Elections take place amid youth revolt

Tunisia: Impressions of a revolution

May 23, 2011 Paul Murphy, MEP, Socialist Party (CWI Ireland)

Paul Murphy, MEP, writes about his visit to the country that triggered the ‘Arab Spring’

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.

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: 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: 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: 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: Youth protesters’ ‘Tahrir Square’ occupation

May 19, 2011 CWI reporters, Spain

“May 15 movement” holds country-wide demonstrations

Ireland: Successful “Reclaim the Unions” Forum for Trade Union Activists

May 19, 2011 Michael O’Brien, Socialist Party (CWI Ireland)

Discussion on the measures necessary to prepare for the attacks that lie ahead

Ireland: State visit by British monarch

May 19, 2011 <a href="http://www.joehiggins.eu">Joe Higgins</a>, TD (member of the Irish Parliament), Socialist Party (CWI Ireland)

"With almost half a million (14%) of our workforce jobless, which would be more socially useful, another 3,000 jobs or entertaining high-profile visitors?"