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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

France

Gauche RévolutionnaireCWI in France: Gauche Révolutionnaire
Les amis de l'Egalité, Centre 166, 82 rue jeanne d'Arc, 76000 Rouen, email
http://www.gr-socialisme.org

France: Pre-Summit protest in Le Havre

25/05/2011, ‘G8 Dégage (get out)’!
Alex Lecoq, Gauche Révolutionnaire, (CWI France)

Paris commune 1871: When workers "stormed heaven"

09/05/2011, 140th anniversary - Heroic few weeks when working class took power
Niall Mulholland, CWI

France: Sarkozy instigates ban on veil to boost his political ratings

21/04/2011, What attitude should socialists adopt in defending women’s rights?
Judy Beishon, from the Socialist, paper of the Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)

France: “A lot of youth and workers hope that the mobilisation will have a new upturn”

29/10/2010, Interview with Alex Lecoq, Gauche Revolutionnaire (CWI in France), a student in Rouen
socialistworld.net

France: A major trial of strength between the classes

25/10/2010, Millions of workers and youth want an end to the Sarkozy ’dictatorship’
Analysis and report from Clare Doyle (CWI Secretariat) recently in Paris and Rouen, discussing with members of Gauche Revolutionnaire (CWI France)

France: Struggle against Sarkozy’s “reforms” escalates

19/10/2010, Workers and youth challenge cuts through mass strikes and protests
Cedric Gerome, CWI, and Alex Rouillard, Gauche Revolutionnaire (CWI in France)

France: Biggest turnout in the streets for decades

14/10/2010, Workers can bring the whole economy to a halt
Cedric Gerome, CWI, London, and Alex Rouillard, Gauche Revolutionnaire (CWI in France)

France: General strike on 12 October

10/10/2010, New stage in the fight against Sarkozy’s policies
Alex Rouillard and Cassandra Dessannau, Gauche Revolutionnaire (CWI France)

France: General strike against pension attacks sees huge workers’ protests

10/09/2010, Sarkozy forced to mouth concessions but fight set to escalate
Cedric Gerome, CWI

France: Joe Higgins condemns scapegoating of Roma peoples by Sarkozy

10/09/2010, Joe Higgins MEP explains why he voted in favour of the resolution condemning French President Nicolas Sarkozy for his racist policies of scapegoating and deporting peoples from the Roma minority in France.
Joe Higgins, MEP Socialist Party (CWI Ireland)

Britain/France: Protest in London against Sarkozy’s racist policies

06/09/2010, Thousands demonstrate across Europe
CWI reporters

France: The decay of Sarkozy’s government

23/08/2010, Racism, corruption, economic crisis and class struggle
Cedric Gerome, CWI

France: Mass protests sweep the country

01/07/2010, 2 million on the streets to defend pensions
Cedric Gerome, CWI, London, and Virginie Pregny, Gauche Revolutionnaire (CWI in France)

Regional elections in France: Sarkozy’s policies massively rejected

24/03/2010, ’Third round on the streets’ - Big gains for Socialist Party and allies, and also for far right, but new Anti-capitalist Party in disarray
Clare Doyle, CWI

France: Three million take to the streets in national strike

23/03/2009, Mass fightback against bosses and government continues
Danny Byrne, cwi

France: January’s general strike first but not last response to Sarkozy

16/02/2009, New Anti-capitalist Party can grow fast with clear socialist policies
Leila Messaoudi, Gauche Révolutionnaire (CWI France), Written for Socialism Today, journal of Socialist Party (England and Wales)

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