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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

Eurozone
Endgame

07/10/2011: Eurozone threatened by sovereign debt and banking crisis and compounded by near-zero growth

Britain
Labour Party leader’s fruitless dreams of a ’better capitalism’

06/10/2011: The working class needs a new party

Ireland
Socialist Party candidate contests parliamentary by-election

06/10/2011: Vote against government austerity

Kazakhstan
Kazakh oil workers heard in European Parliament

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

US
Over 700 arrested on “Occupy Wall Street” march

05/10/2011: Struggle continues despite police repression

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

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

Scotland
Thousands march and prepare to strike against cuts

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

Germany
Hospital workers’ strike enters fourth week

03/10/2011: Solidarity urgently needed

US
Socialist Statement at Occupy Wall Street

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

Horn of Africa
Lives of millions hanging by a thread

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

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

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

Kazakhstan
"Kazakh strikers turn to OSCE"

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

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

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

Bolivia
General strike amid intense political crisis

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

US
Brutal police crackdown on protestors

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

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

Kazakhstan
Venezuelan oil workers’ support striking Kazakh oil workers and condemn repression

28/09/2011: Protesters lobby Kazakh embassy in Germany

Germany, Kazakhstan, Venezuela

Capitalism
Parasites’ attitude exposed

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

Yemen
Revolutionary movement under threat

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

Greece
Despair and fury

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

Hong Kong
Socialist Action launches election campaign for district council

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

Kazakhstan
Venezuelan union leader supports Kazakh opposition activists

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

Pakistan
Eyewitness account of Sindh floods

24/09/2011: Hundreds of thousands displaced as flood worsens

Portugal
A hot autumn looming

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

Egypt
New wave of strikes

23/09/2011: Eight months after the overthrow of Mubarak, workers and youth still face poverty, unemployment, corruption and repression

Hong Kong
Oppose political frame-up of ‘Long Hair’ and six other activists

23/09/2011: Left-wing legislator and six others arrested and charged with ‘disorderly conduct’ after by-election protest

Britain
Can labour be reclaimed?

23/09/2011: Why socialists must campaign for a new mass workers party

Libya
After the fall of Tripoli

22/09/2011: Revolution in grave danger of being seriously derailed

Palestine
Mass action needed to end occupation

22/09/2011: CWI MEP argues for mass action to liberate the Palestinian masses

Britain
Video of successful lobby of Trades Union Congress

21/09/2011: Public sector-wide action announced for 30 November!

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CWI Summer School: The Spanish Revolution and the lessons for today

09/08/2011, A rally was held during the CWI summer school to mark the 75th anniversary of the outbreak of civil war in Spain and to commemorate the heroic Spanish revolution.
Eddie McCabe and Laura Fitzgerald, Socialist Party (CWI Ireland)

CWI Summer School: China on the verge of social explosion

05/08/2011, Inner-party struggles as repression tightened
Sean Figg, Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)

CWI Summer School: Economic, social and political crisis maturing together in Europe

02/08/2011, The CWI School, which took place in Leuven, Belgium between 24 and 29 July, was opened by Peter Taaffe of the CWI’s International Secretariat on ‘Europe in turmoil, the youth revolt and the current stage of the class struggle’.
Kevin Parslow, Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)

CWI Summer School: Greece in turmoil

31/07/2011, Lessons of the Movement of the ’Enraged’
Snead Daly, Socialist Party Scotland (CWI)

CWI Summer School: World capitalist crisis

29/07/2011, The economy and inter-imperialist relations
Alison Hill, Socialist Party (CWI England and Wales)

CWI Summer School: Revolution and Counter-Revolution in North Africa and Middle East

27/07/2011, Report of plenary discussion
David Johnson, Socialist Party (CWI England and Wales)

May Day 2011: Revolution in the Middle East and Mahgreb – workers’ struggle around the globe

30/04/2011, Fighting to end capitalism and its crisis, the Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI) sends warm May Day greetings to workers, youth and the oppressed around the globe.
CWI statement

US: Right wing commentator Glenn Beck attacks unions and CWI

09/04/2011, Rant reflects establishment concerns at rise of class struggles
Ramy Khalil, Socialist Alternative (CWI supporters in the US)

Ireland / European Parliament: Paul Murphy to replace Joe Higgins as Socialist Party MEP

25/03/2011, Long-time Socialist Party activist and organiser, Paul Murphy (27), will be replacing Joe Higgins as the Socialist Party MEP for Dublin, following Joe’s succesful election to the Dail along with Clare Daly.
Paul Murphy, MEP, Socialist Party (CWI Ireland)