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08/10/2011: How can we take the struggle forward?
08/10/2011: "Better to break the law than break the poor"
07/10/2011: Socialist Action organized demonstration to protest mass arrests in New
York and other US cities
07/10/2011: Eurozone threatened by sovereign debt and banking crisis and compounded
by near-zero growth
06/10/2011: The working class needs a new party
06/10/2011: Vote against government austerity
05/10/2011: End attacks on lives and freedoms of worker activists!
05/10/2011: Struggle continues despite police repression
05/10/2011: Implications of so-called "six-pack of economic governance measures",
voted on in the European Parliament last week, are vast
04/10/2011: 24 Hour Public Sector General Strike Now - Socialist Party placard,
photo Paul Mattsson
04/10/2011: “People First” demonstration in Glasgow on 1st October
03/10/2011: Solidarity urgently needed
03/10/2011: End the Dictatorship of Wall Street!
03/10/2011: Famine - another weapon of mass destruction
01/10/2011: UPDATE: 12 protesters released – Drop all charges and fines!
01/10/2011: The Moscow News reports on heroic workers struggle
01/10/2011: Manic, uncoordinated and corrupt railway development plans need to be
immediately and thoroughly checked and reconstructed under public and
democratic control
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
30/09/2011: Indigenous movement and general strike force five ministers resignations
30/09/2011: Wall street occupation continues and spreads
29/09/2011: London protest against state repression and in solidarity with oil
workers
29/09/2011: Attacks first tested on Aboriginal population now implemented on all
28/09/2011: Protesters lobby Kazakh embassy in Germany
28/09/2011: Stock market trader exposes real views of speculators & parasites
28/09/2011: Regime unleashes counter-revolutionary violence
28/09/2011: The Execution of Troy Davis
27/09/2011: New wave of strikes and student protests - But how can the cuts tsunami
be halted?
27/09/2011: Socialist Action’s (CWI Hong Kong) first election campaign
26/09/2011: Ainur Kurmanov and Esenbek Ukteshbayev to address OSCE Human Rights
Conference
24/09/2011: Hundreds of thousands displaced as flood worsens
24/09/2011: Mass and unified resistance needs to be organised
23/09/2011: Eight months after the overthrow of Mubarak, workers and youth still
face poverty, unemployment, corruption and repression
23/09/2011: Left-wing legislator and six others arrested and charged with
‘disorderly conduct’ after by-election protest
23/09/2011: Why socialists must campaign for a new mass workers party
22/09/2011: Revolution in grave danger of being seriously derailed
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|  20/06/2011, Resistance to coalition government’s cuts
Toby Dite, Prague
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| 19/09/2003, On Saturday 13 September 15 to 20,000 Trade Union members demonstrated
in Prague. The protest was against an austerity package proposed by the
government. These reforms were renamed by trade unionists as "deforms”
as they carried a coffin to Premier Vladimir Spidla adorned with slogans
saying “Government manifesto” and “Spidla’s election promises”. Czech
Railway workers blocked the Governments’ office with a railway buffer.
The board attached to it read “The gift of the railwaymen’s union to the
government of Premier Vladimir Spidla”.
Vasek Votruba, Socialisticka alternativa Budoucnost (Socialist
alternative the Future), Prague. |
| 04/02/2003, Prague - The independent federation of tram drivers (FRT) organised a
one day strike on February 4 over wage claims. The main demand is that
tram drivers wages would be equalized with the wages of other transport
workers, like bus drivers in Prague. Picket lines were attacked by
scabs, security guards hired by management and the police force. 10 tram
drivers were injured in the clashes.
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| 24/08/2002, At least one quarter of the Czech Republic was flooded last week after
flash floods. 14 people died because of the disaster (some of them did
not leave flooded houses, and one died when a boat was bombed by the
authorities as a ‘safety preventative measure’). The fire fighters and
other emergency workers did a huge amount of work – they really are
heroes. Immediately after the floods started, they came from all over
the country to help. The police mostly controlled areas to stop looting.
Vasek Votruba, Prague, 22 August 2002 |
| 19/06/2002, Results from last week’s parliamentary elections in the Czech Republic
show that the social democrats (CSSD) won with 30.4%, followed by the
communist party (KSCM) (18.8%), which is the highest vote for the KSCM
since the collapse of Stalinism in 1989.
Vasek Votruba, Prague, 17 June 2002 |
| 01/01/2001, In the Czech Republic, political competition has made television into an
unscrupulous battleground for ambitious bureaucrats, reflecting a
government led by rival parties, the rightist ODS and the leftist CSSD,
who each want so badly to govern that they have forged an unlikely
"opposition agreement."
CWI statement |
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