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US
End the Dictatorship of Wall Street!

08/10/2011: How can we take the struggle forward?

  US

 Britan
90th anniversary of the struggle of Poplar against cuts

08/10/2011: "Better to break the law than break the poor"

  Britain, Video

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

Eurozone
Endgame

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

  World Economy

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

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

Poland: Solidarity picket in defense of oppressed oil workers in Kazakhstan

29/08/2011, A solidarity picket in defense of oppressed oil workers in Kazakhstan was held near the Consulate of the Republic of Kazakhstan and the headquarters of the firm ’Oil and Gas Exploration’, in Krakow on August 25.
CWI reporter, Poland

Warsaw: Anti-fascist blockade stopped fascists for 5 hours

12/11/2010, Over 1,500 anti-fascists took part in an illegal blockade to prevent Polish fascists from marching in Warsaw on 11 November.
Paul Newbery, CWI Poland

Poland: 30th anniversary of Solidarnosc

31/08/2010, The celebrations of the 30th anniversary of Solidarity take place against the background of attacks and an unprecedented media campaign against today’s trade unions and workers.
CWI Poland

Poland: New president – new round of attacks

10/08/2010, Last Friday, 6 August, Komorowski (Civic Platform) was sworn in as the new president in Poland.
Paul Newberry, GPR (CWI Poland)

Poland: Eastern Europe’s largest ever gay rights demonstration

07/08/2010, 20,000 people marched along the streets of Warsaw on 17 July on what was Eastern Europe’s largest ever gay rights demonstration.
Paul Newberry, Warsaw

Poland: Defeat from the jaws of victory

03/11/2009, In August 1980, Poland’s Stalinist regime was rocked by a massive strike wave which swept across the country.
Paul Newberry, Group for a Workers’ Party (CWI in Poland)

Britain/Poland: Interview with Polish Vestas occupier

14/09/2009, “We will fight on”
Interview conducted by Kacper Pluta, Group for a Workers’ Party, (GPR - CWI Poland)

Poland: On 20th anniversary of collapse of Stalinism in Poland…

04/06/2009, Working class finds itself between the class struggle and the union bureaucracy
Ewa Groszewska & Paul Newbery, members of August 80 union, Committee for the Aid and Defence of Victimised Workers, and Polish Labour Party

Poland: Trade unionists occupy Polish Premier’s office

18/11/2008, General strike on the agenda
Paul Newberry, GPR (CWI in Poland)

Poland: 50,000 on largest workers’ demonstration since 1990s

01/09/2008, ‘Defend the Labour Code - for a one day General Strike!’
Paul Newbery, Group for a Workers’ Party, (GPR, CWI Poland)

Poland:: Strikes continue against rocketing food and fuel costs

27/08/2008, Government and bosses try to crush the workers’ movement
Wojtek Orowiecki, Group for a Workers’ Party (GPR), CWI in Poland

Poland: Thousands join ‘Hands off the Labour Code!’ demonstration

23/06/2008, Donald Tusk government and bosses fear united workers’ struggle
Paul Newbery and Florian Nowicki, GPR (CWI Poland)

Poland: ‘Tesco Polska’ hit by strike

27/02/2008, Unions pledge support for industrial action at Tesco retail giant
Paul Newberry, GPR (CWI Poland)

Polish miners: Strike victory due to iron determination

13/02/2008, After 46 days on strike, the miners of Budryk have won a victory.
Florian Nowicki and Wojciech Orowieck, Group for a Workers’ Party (GPR - CWI Poland)

Poland: Biggest miners’ underground occupation in Polish history

10/01/2008, Urgent solidarity action needed!
Paul Newberry, GPR (CWI Poland)

Poland: Terrible Twins suffer election defeat

25/10/2007, Right-wing populist government defeated
Paul Newbery, cwi Poland

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