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Hong Kong: Solidarity with ‘Occupy Wall Street’ movement
Eurozone: Endgame
Britain: Labour Party leader’s fruitless dreams of a ’better capitalism’
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Hong Kong: Solidarity with ‘Occupy Wall Street’ movement

07/10/2011: Socialist Action organized demonstration to protest mass arrests in New York and other US cities

  Hong Kong

Kazakhstan: Kazakh oil workers heard in European Parliament

05/10/2011: End attacks on lives and freedoms of worker activists!

  Kazakhstan

US: Over 700 arrested on “Occupy Wall Street” march

05/10/2011: Struggle continues despite police repression

  US

Europe: Austerity locked-in with EU economic governance package

05/10/2011: Implications of so-called "six-pack of economic governance measures", voted on in the European Parliament last week, are vast

  Europe

Britain: World economy in meltdown - we won’t pay for capitalist crisis

04/10/2011: 24 Hour Public Sector General Strike Now - Socialist Party placard, photo Paul Mattsson

  Britain, World Economy

Scotland: Thousands march and prepare to strike against cuts

04/10/2011: “People First” demonstration in Glasgow on 1st October

  Scotland

US: Socialist Statement at Occupy Wall Street

03/10/2011: End the Dictatorship of Wall Street!

  US

Horn of Africa: Lives of millions hanging by a thread

03/10/2011: Famine - another weapon of mass destruction

  Africa, Somalia

 Russia: Police detain campaigners for equal rights for women and LGBT community

01/10/2011: UPDATE: 12 protesters released – Drop all charges and fines!

  Russia, Solidarity

Kazakhstan: "Kazakh strikers turn to OSCE"

01/10/2011: The Moscow News reports on heroic workers struggle

  Kazakhstan

China: 284 injured in metro system’s “darkest day”

01/10/2011: Manic, uncoordinated and corrupt railway development plans need to be immediately and thoroughly checked and reconstructed under public and democratic control

  China

 Kazakhstan: MEPs condemn repression of opposition activists

30/09/2011: “I, Clare Daly, member of the Irish Parliament strongly condemn threats by the Kazakhstan authorities…” Socialist Party TDs add voices to international outcry

  Kazakhstan, Solidarity

Bolivia: General strike amid intense political crisis

30/09/2011: Indigenous movement and general strike force five ministers resignations

  Bolivia

US: Brutal police crackdown on protestors

30/09/2011: Wall street occupation continues and spreads

  US

 Britain: Solidarity protest at Kazakh embassy

29/09/2011: London protest against state repression and in solidarity with oil workers

  Britain, Kazakhstan, Solidarity

Australia: Failed ‘welfare quarantine’ measures to be extended

29/09/2011: Attacks first tested on Aboriginal population now implemented on all

  Australia

 Capitalism: Parasites’ attitude exposed

28/09/2011: Stock market trader exposes real views of speculators & parasites

  Video, World Economy

Yemen: Revolutionary movement under threat

28/09/2011: Regime unleashes counter-revolutionary violence

  Yemen

US: America’s Strange Fruit

28/09/2011: The Execution of Troy Davis

  US

Hong Kong: Socialist Action launches election campaign for district council

27/09/2011: Socialist Action’s (CWI Hong Kong) first election campaign

  Hong Kong

Kazakhstan: Venezuelan union leader supports Kazakh opposition activists

26/09/2011: Ainur Kurmanov and Esenbek Ukteshbayev to address OSCE Human Rights Conference

  Kazakhstan, Venezuela

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Greece: Despair and fury

27/09/2011: New wave of strikes and student protests - But how can the cuts tsunami be halted?

Interview with Greek socialist


  Greece

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Eurozone
Endgame

07/10/2011: After a year and a half, the Greek debt crisis is far from resolved. In fact, with Greece on the verge of a social explosion, a default and exit from the euro appears almost inevitable. The eurozone is threatened by an interlocking sovereign debt and banking crisis, compounded by near-zero growth.

Lynn Walsh, first published in Socialism Today, magazine of the Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)

  World Economy

Portugal
A hot autumn looming

24/09/2011: Mass and unified resistance needs to be organised

Anne Engelhardt, reporting from Lisbon, Portugal

  Portugal

Britain
When all they offer is cuts, joblessness and misery...

16/09/2011: ...we need a programme of action to fight back!

Peter Taaffe, Socialist Party (CWI in England & Wales) general secretary

  Britain

Palestine
UN vote on ‘statehood’

14/09/2011: How can the national rights of Palestinians be achieved?

Judy Beishon, Socialist Party (CWI England and Wales)

  Israel / Palestine

The consequences of 9/11
A world turned upside down

10/09/2011: The bloody terrorist outrages of 11 September 2001 in New York, Pennsylvania and Washington were one of the defining moments in recent history.

Peter Taaffe, general secretary Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales), first published in Socialism Today

  CWI Comment And Analysis

Libya
After Gaddafi

06/09/2011: Stop the revolution’s derailment - independent workers’ action needed!

Robert Bechert, CWI

  Libya

World economy
A new phase of the great recession

25/08/2011: Capitalist strategists are filled with gloom at the prospect of a new economic downturn.

Lynn Walsh, editor of Socialism Today, magazine of the Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)

  World Economy

20 years on
Attempted putsch in the Soviet Union

20/08/2011: Attempted Stalinist counter-revolution speeds up capitalist counter-revolution

Clare Doyle, International Secretariat of the CWI

  History, Russian Revolution

Britain
Inner cities erupt

10/08/2011: A mass workers’ movement is needed to defeat the government

Hannah Sell, Socialist Party deputy general secretary

  Britain

North Africa, Middle East
The revolution four months later

02/06/2011: Across the Middle East and North Africa the revolutions and protests that began after Mohamed Bouazizi’s suicide in protest at poverty and oppression in Tunisia have, in many countries, reached turning points.

Robert Bechert, CWI

  Africa, Middle East

Libya
Nato’s Libya intervention debated

24/05/2011: An exchange on how to support the genuine forces in the uprising in Libya

Letter by Chris Fernandez, from Darby, replied by Peter Taaffe, general secretary Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)

  Libya

Eurozone
Crisis deepens

19/05/2011: The Greek bailout implemented last year has not worked. Greece, moreover, is far from being an isolated case.

Editorial of the Socialist, paper of the Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)

  Europe, World Economy

Libya
The ‘no-fly zone’ and the Left

20/04/2011: US overstretch and uncertainty

Peter Taaffe, from Socialism Today, monthly magazine of the Socialist Party (CWI England and Wales)

  Libya

World & Europe
New period of instability and revolutions

14/04/2011: Thesis of the European bureau of the CWI

International Secretariat of the CWI

  CWI Comment And Analysis, Europe

Middle East and North Africa
Revolutions in danger

13/04/2011: Decisive workers’ action necessary

Robert Bechert, CWI

  Africa, Middle East

Britain
After 26 March demonstration

04/04/2011: For a 24 hour general strike!

Editorial from Socialism Today, magazine of the Socialist Party (CWI in England & Wales)

  Britain

Review
“How to Change the World”

02/04/2011: Does Eric Hobsbawm provide a revolutionary perspective?

Peter Taaffe, Socialist Party (CWi in England & Wales) general secretary reviews “How to Change the World” by Eric Hobsbawm

  Review

Libya
Defend the revolution! No to imperialist intervention!

30/03/2011: Build an independent force of workers and the poor

Robert Bechert, CWI

  Libya

Japan
Immediate and longer-term effects of disaster

24/03/2011: Resentment and anger need socialist expression

Carl Simmons, Kokusai Rentai (CWI Japan)

  Environment, Japan, Nuclear Power, World Economy

Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories
"We’ll struggle like in Egypt"

20/03/2011: Arab revolutions countries, the occupied Palestinian territories and Israel

Shahar Ben-Khorin, Socialist Struggle Movement (Tnua’t Maavak Sozialisti / Harakat Nidal Eshtaraki, CWI Israel)

  Israel / Palestine

EuropeRegion in Revolt

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Capitalism: Parasites’ attitude exposed, 28/09/2011

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