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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

Greece
Despair and fury

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

  Greece

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

Pakistan
Eyewitness account of Sindh floods

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

  Pakistan

Portugal
A hot autumn looming

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

  Portugal

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

  Egypt

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

  Hong Kong

Britain
Can labour be reclaimed?

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

  Britain

Libya
After the fall of Tripoli

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

  Libya

 Palestine
Mass action needed to end occupation

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

  Israel / Palestine, Video

 Britain
Video of successful lobby of Trades Union Congress

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

  Britain, Video

Italy
Deeper into crisis

20/09/2011: New initiative to build a fighting alternative

  Italy

Nigeria
The struggle for N18,000 minimum wage

20/09/2011: For a two-day general strike now! No to retrenchment of workers!

  Nigeria

Norway
Racist ‘Progress Party’ biggest loser in elections

19/09/2011: Labour Party gains less then predicted

  Norway

Denmark
Right-wing government loses power after ten years

19/09/2011: Red-Green Alliance trebles its vote

  Denmark

 Video
The other 9/11

17/09/2011: Short movie by Ken Loach on Chile’s 9/11 1973 coup

  Video

US
“Sound before the fury of the oppressed”!

17/09/2011: 40th anniversary of Attica Prison Uprising

  History, US

Pakistan
Report from flood-hit Sindh

16/09/2011: Crisis worsens, hundreds killed, millions affected

  Pakistan

Kazakhstan
“Kurmanov to be jailed?”

16/09/2011: Police threats to arrest and jail Socialist Movement Kazakhstan leaders – urgent protest action needed!

  Kazakhstan

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

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

  Britain

Pakistan
Sindh flooded again

15/09/2011: Millions badly affected.

  Pakistan

Britain 1931
Coalition, cutbacks and crisis

15/09/2011: While no historical period is identical with Britain now, the tumultuous events that shook the country 80 years ago – combining the great depression, a ‘grand coalition’ government wielding the axe, and a damaging currency peg – are rich in lessons for workers in Britain and Europe today.

  Britain, History

Palestine
UN vote on ‘statehood’

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

  Israel / Palestine

Britain
Union leaders must open the floodgates of mass action!

13/09/2011: National Shop Stewards’ Network lobbies Trades Union Congress (TUC)

  Britain

US
Wall Street Has Two Parties, We Need One of Our Own!

12/09/2011: Divisions Deepen in the Democratic Party

  US

 Germany
Solidarity appeal

12/09/2011: Support the striking workers of the Charité Facility Management company (CFM) in Berlin!

  Germany, Solidarity

Review
Why Marx was right

11/09/2011: Eagleton’s book can act as a ’refresher course’ and a useful introduction. It is not without its faults and limits, however.

  Review

Chile
The other ‘9/11’

10/09/2011: 1973 bloody coup against Popular Unity government – Lessons for today

  Chile, History

Austria

Sozialistische LinksparteiCWI in Austria: Sozialistische Linkspartei
Sozialistische Linkspartei, Kaiserstrasse 14/11, 1070 Wien, email
http://www.slp.at

Austria: Far right in process of unification

02/02/2010, Protests in Carinthia against ruling ex-Haider party
Margarita Döller, SLP (CWI in Austria), Wien

Austria: University and school students, kindergarden workers and metal workers protest in joint day of action

06/11/2009, 15th day of university occupations – at least 20,000 on the streets
Laura Rafetseder, SLP (CWI in Austria)

Austria: Universities occupied, 50,000 students on the streets

30/10/2009, Government forced to make first concessions
Laura Rafetseder, SLP (CWI in Austria)

Austria: Police attack anti-fascists on May Day

06/05/2009, Brutality inflicted on peaceful protest
Will Peek and Sonja Grusch, Socialist Left Party (SLP - CWI in Austria)

Austria: 60,000 school students strike on 24 April

30/04/2009, Growing unrest among workers and youth
Laura Rafetseder, Socialist Left Party (CWI in Austria)

Austria: Teachers and school students take strike action against attacks on education

16/04/2009, Education sector gives an example by fighting back
Laura Rafetseder, Sozialistische LinksPartei (CWI in Austria)

Austria: Successful anti-racist football tournament and youth congress

29/01/2009, Support grows for victimised socialist footballers
Laura Rafetseder, Sozialistische Linkspartei (SLP – CWI in Austria)

Austria: Socialist players suspended from football club for anti-fascist activities

31/10/2008, Far right football club president moves against socialists
Laura Rafetseder, Sozialistische Linkspartei (SLP – CWI in Austria)

Austria: Far Right makes big gains - Left vote squeezed

07/10/2008, As economic crisis hits, workers’ movement needs socialist alternative
Laura Rafetseder, Sozialistische Linkspartei (SLP - CWI Austria)

Austria: Political establishment in turmoil

23/07/2008, New ‘Left Project’ alliance plans to contest early general elections
Laura Rafetseder, Sozialistische LinksPartei (SLP, CWI Austria), Vienna

Austria: Fascist attack on Socialist Left Party spokesperson’s home

10/03/2008, Far-right and establishment parties stir up racist mood
Socialist Left Party (CWI-Austria) reporter, Vienna

Austria: Demonstration held against Vienna neo-Nazi club

28/06/2007, Youth and workers need a socialist alternative
Franz Breier Jun., SLP (CWI Austria), Vienna

Austria: Vienna: Successful demonstration against racism and fascism

11/11/2006, November 9th saw hundreds join a demonstration against racism and fascism in Vienna initiated by the Socialist Left Party, SLP.
Sonja Grusch, Socialist Left Party, cwi in Austria

Austria: General election sees surprise sees Social Democrats return to power

10/10/2006, 2,250 vote in Vienna against capitalism
Sonja Grusch, SLP (CWI), Vienna

Austria: Financial scandals plunges union federation into crisis

05/07/2006, Unions must end class collaboration and defend interests of working class
Sonja Grusch, Socialist Left Party (SLP - CWI in Austria)

Austria: “No to Bush & Co.”

24/06/2006, Mass protests against Bush visit to Vienna
Socialist Left Party (SLP/CWI) reporter, Vienna

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