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Gaza
Socialist MEP Paul Murphy once more en route to break the blockade

02/11/2011: Breaking News: New freedom flotilla enters international waters

US
Strike Action Organized in Oakland to Defend Occupy Movement

02/11/2011: Occupiers’ call for a “general strike” finds positive echo in labor movement

Ireland
Excellent performance by the Socialist Party in Dublin parliamentary by-election

02/11/2011: Labour had a good day in Presidential and by-election polls but it’s all down hill from here

Australia
Qantas management tries to lockout workers

01/11/2011: Most vicious attack on unions in 13 years

World Economy
Just 147 companies control 40% of global wealth

01/11/2011: Study finds 1% of corporations control world economy

India
Maruti Suzuki strike ends

31/10/2011: But battles still to wage

US
Which way forward for the ’Occupy’ movement

31/10/2011: What should the next step be for the ’Occupy’ movement

Australia
The one sided mining boom

30/10/2011: Review of “Too much luck” by Paul Cleary

Chile
The crude strategy of Piñera’s government to discredit the students

29/10/2011: New laws to repress social protest

Tunisia
Ennahda’s breakthrough brings major change in political landscape

28/10/2011: Election ‘success story’ masks growing anger from below

Australia/Sri Lanka
Sri Lankan government under fire as President visits Australia

27/10/2011: Siritunga Jayasuriya, secretary of the United Socialist Party (CWI) Sri Lanka, has made a stinging public attack on the regime of Mahinda Rajapaksa while in Australia at the same time as the president.

Audio, Australia, Sri Lanka

Kazakhstan
Armed attack on journalists covering oil workers’ dispute

27/10/2011: Condemn brutal attack on media freedom, Solidarity needed!

Kazakhstan, Solidarity

Belgium
Nationalise the steel sector under workers’ control!

26/10/2011: ArcelorMittal wants to close ‘liquid’ steelproduction in Liège. Workers resist, unions call for nationalisation.

Belgium

USA
Urgent #OccupySeattle solidarity appeal

26/10/2011: Let #OccupySeattle stay at Seattle Central Community College!

Solidarity, US

Europe
EU Austerity laws passed

26/10/2011: "Six pack" rules institutionalise austerity across the EU

Europe, Video

Belgium
10,000 youth protest on 15 october in Brussels

25/10/2011: Clear opening for radical ideas developing

Belgium

Libya
Gaddafi Dead - What now?

25/10/2011: Independent action by Libyan workers, youth and poor vital to prevent revolution’s derailment

Libya

Austria
Metal Workers’ wage agreement

24/10/2011: Strike action wins concessions - but 4.2% is not enough!

Austria

Malaysia
Effects of global crisis felt in Asia

24/10/2011: Malaysian economy enters difficult period

Asia, Malaysia

Eurozone
Lost in Euroland

22/10/2011: Eurozone crisis deepens

Europe, World Economy

Greece
48-hour general strike sees biggest workers’ protests in decades

21/10/2011: All out occupations and strikes! Kick out the Pasok cuts government! For a revolutionary government of the workers and poor!

Greece

Australia
‘Occupy Melbourne’ savaged by riot police

21/10/2011: Brutal assault as protesters hold their ground and block city streets

Australia

India
Suzuki workers occupy factory

20/10/2011: Thousands take solidarity action

Solidarity

Britain
Protesters target ‘Kazakhstan Business Forum’ London event

20/10/2011: Stop state brutality in Kazakhstan!

Britain, Kazakhstan

Italy
Huge demonstration of “Enraged” in Rome

20/10/2011: Violence of a few used to try and curb growing opposition

Italy

Taiwan
“Smash capitalism” echoes inside biggest skyscraper

19/10/2011: CWI Taiwan members make media splash

Taiwan

US
Mass Occupation Defeats Seattle Mayor and Police

18/10/2011: Big Victory for Occupy Wall Street Movement

US

Sweden
Occupy Stockholm and Gothenburg

18/10/2011: Anti-racist demo in Malmö

Sweden

Britain
November 30th one-day public-sector strike and beyond

18/10/2011: Preparing for the showdown

Britain

Spain/Portugal
Millions of ‘Indignados’ take to the streets on ‘15-O’

17/10/2011: Build the mass resistance to austerity!

Portugal, Spain

Lebanon
General Labour Confederation leaders sell out workers

17/10/2011: Build for 19 October ‘independent’ unions’ strike!

Lebanon

Austria
Metal Workers strike for wage increase of 5.5%

15/10/2011: Austrian working class gives impressive sign of life

Austria

Greece
Brutal cuts provokes new wave of workers’ struggles

15/10/2011: Strikes must be democratically controlled by rank and file

Greece

Sri Lanka
United Socialist Party holds successful congress

15/10/2011: “Difficult times - yet we are defiant and determined!”

Sri Lanka

15 October
The day of inter-continental resistance

15/10/2011: Break the power of the banks and multinationals! Fight capitalism – for a socialist alternative to the failed profit-driven system!

CWI

15/10/2011: 15 October: The day of inter-continental resistance
09/08/2011: CWI Summer School: The Spanish Revolution and the lessons for today
05/08/2011: CWI Summer School: China on the verge of social explosion

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Das Komitee für eine Arbeiter-Internationale (KAI) ist eine internationale sozialistische Organisation mit Sektionen in über 35 Ländern. Das KAI ist Teil des Kampfes gegen die Herrschaft der Banken und Konzerne und für den Sturz des globalen Kapitalismus. Wir kämpfen für eine demokratische sozialistische Gesellschaft auf internationaler Ebene.