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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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| 17/08/2009, No return to ‘good times’ will see workers ready to take action
Anthony Main, Socialist Party (CWI Australia), Melbourne |
| 10/11/2008, New right wing coalition faces economic recession
Anthony Main, Socialist Party (CWI Australia) |
| 22/09/2006, Workers win pay parity across threes sites
UNITE reporters, Melbourne |
| 30/06/2006, Union activists picket Australian Embassy
Nicki Jonas, CWI, NZ |
| 19/09/2005, Results shows workers oppose 20 years of neo-liberalism
Louisa Stewart, Auckland, and Stephen Jolly, Melbourne, Monday,
September 19 2005 |
| 27/06/2004, Labour appeals to “national unity” while waging war on workers at home
and abroad
Tim Bowron, Socialist Alternative (cwi), NZ |
| 17/04/2004, Brash plays the race card as Labour fails Maori and working class
Tim Bowron, Socialist Alternative, Dunedin |
| 24/02/2004, Making Sense of the Foreshore and Seabed controversy
Tim Bowron, cwi NZ |
| 15/12/2003, Eighteen months after the left-wing Alliance Party in Aotearoa/New
Zealand suffered a damaging split and the loss of all its remaining MPs
in a snap general election, there are signs that the party is (somewhat
belatedly) trying to reconnect with its working class support.
Tim Bowron, Socialist Alternative, Dunedin |
| 10/11/2003, On Saturday, 8 November delegates attending the annual NZ Labour Party
conference at the Christchurch Convention Centre were able to witness
two strongly contrasting styles of democracy.
By a cwi correspondent in Christchurch |
| 19/08/2003, Labour’s free market policies to blame for rail and electricity woes.
Tim Bowron, Socialist Alternative, New Zealand |
| 04/05/2003, It seems such a short time ago that Helen Clark and her colleagues in
the New Zealand Labour Government were being widely praised for their
bold stand against the US-led invasion of Iraq. Only last month, New
Zealand’s ambassador to the UN was condemning the rush to abandon
diplomacy in favour of military action as a means of dealing with Saddam
Hussein’s alleged weapons of mass destruction. The ambassador stated
that New Zealand would not be a party to any intervention that did not
have the explicit backing of the UN Security Council.
Tim Bowron, Socialist Alternative, Dunedin |
| 16/04/2003, On Saturday, 12 April, at noon, a peace vigil was held in the centre of
Dunedin, beginning a day of action in solidarity with similar anti-war
protests and demonstrations in other parts of New Zealand and right
around the world.
Jon Coughlin, Socialist Alternative, Dunedin |
| 16/01/2003, CWI group campaigns against war.
Article and photo from the Otago Daily Times, New Zealand. |
| 08/01/2003, The recent decision by the New Zealand government to offer covert
military support for a US-led assault on Iraq has provided the final
confirmation of what many people in this country have known for a long
time - that the Labour Party, far from being a party that represents
ordinary workers’ interests, has become completely subservient to the
needs of big business and global capitalism.
Tim Bowron, Socialist Alternative, Dunedin. |
| 30/10/2002, When the National Party, traditionally the main capitalist party in New
Zealand, was defeated at the polls in November 1999 workers breathed a
collective sigh of relief. After fifteen years of neo-liberal ’reforms’
the new Labour-led government was elected promising to oppose any
further moves to privatisation, halt cuts to health, education and
welfare spending, and scrap the hated Employment Contracts Act - which
had led to trade union membership being more than halved over the period
since it was introduced in 1991.
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