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Finland: Successfull CWI speaking tour
Gaza: Socialist MEP Paul Murphy once more en route to break the blockade
US: Strike Action Organized in Oakland to Defend Occupy Movement
Ireland: Excellent performance by the Socialist Party in Dublin parliamentary by-election
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Finland: Successfull CWI speaking tour

03/11/2011: Left Alliance joins Conservative led government – Time to build radical, left alternative!

  Finland

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

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

  Audio, Israel / Palestine

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

  US

Australia: Qantas management tries to lockout workers

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

  Australia

World Economy: Just 147 companies control 40% of global wealth

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

  World Economy

India: Maruti Suzuki strike ends

31/10/2011: But battles still to wage

  India

US: Which way forward for the ’Occupy’ movement

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

  US

Australia: The one sided mining boom

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

  Australia, Review

 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

Austria: Metal Workers’ wage agreement

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

  Austria

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

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

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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!

Andreas Payiatsos, Xekinima (CWI Greece), Athens


  Greece

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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

Socialist Party (CWI Ireland) reporters

  Ireland Republic

Tunisia
Ennahda’s breakthrough brings major change in political landscape

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

CWI reporter in Tunis

  Tunisia

Libya
Gaddafi Dead - What now?

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

Robert Bechert, CWI

  Libya

Malaysia
Effects of global crisis felt in Asia

24/10/2011: Malaysian economy enters difficult period

Raviechandren, CWI Malaysia

  Asia, Malaysia

Eurozone
Lost in Euroland

22/10/2011: Eurozone crisis deepens

Robert Bechert, CWI

  Europe, World Economy

Britain
When all they offer is cuts, joblessness and misery...

16/09/2011: ...we need a programme of action to fight back!

Peter Taaffe, Socialist Party (CWI in England & Wales) general secretary

  Britain

Palestine
UN vote on ‘statehood’

14/09/2011: How can the national rights of Palestinians be achieved?

Judy Beishon, Socialist Party (CWI England and Wales)

  Israel / Palestine

The consequences of 9/11
A world turned upside down

10/09/2011: The bloody terrorist outrages of 11 September 2001 in New York, Pennsylvania and Washington were one of the defining moments in recent history.

Peter Taaffe, general secretary Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales), first published in Socialism Today

  CWI Comment And Analysis

Libya
After Gaddafi

06/09/2011: Stop the revolution’s derailment - independent workers’ action needed!

Robert Bechert, CWI

  Libya

World economy
A new phase of the great recession

25/08/2011: Capitalist strategists are filled with gloom at the prospect of a new economic downturn.

Lynn Walsh, editor of Socialism Today, magazine of the Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)

  World Economy

20 years on
Attempted putsch in the Soviet Union

20/08/2011: Attempted Stalinist counter-revolution speeds up capitalist counter-revolution

Clare Doyle, International Secretariat of the CWI

  History, Russia

Britain
Inner cities erupt

10/08/2011: A mass workers’ movement is needed to defeat the government

Hannah Sell, Socialist Party deputy general secretary

  Britain

North Africa, Middle East
The revolution four months later

02/06/2011: Across the Middle East and North Africa the revolutions and protests that began after Mohamed Bouazizi’s suicide in protest at poverty and oppression in Tunisia have, in many countries, reached turning points.

Robert Bechert, CWI

  Africa, Middle East

Libya
Nato’s Libya intervention debated

24/05/2011: An exchange on how to support the genuine forces in the uprising in Libya

Letter by Chris Fernandez, from Darby, replied by Peter Taaffe, general secretary Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)

  Libya

Eurozone
Crisis deepens

19/05/2011: The Greek bailout implemented last year has not worked. Greece, moreover, is far from being an isolated case.

Editorial of the Socialist, paper of the Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)

  Europe, World Economy

Libya
The ‘no-fly zone’ and the Left

20/04/2011: US overstretch and uncertainty

Peter Taaffe, from Socialism Today, monthly magazine of the Socialist Party (CWI England and Wales)

  Libya

World & Europe
New period of instability and revolutions

14/04/2011: Thesis of the European bureau of the CWI

International Secretariat of the CWI

  CWI Comment And Analysis, Europe

Middle East and North Africa
Revolutions in danger

13/04/2011: Decisive workers’ action necessary

Robert Bechert, CWI

  Africa, Middle East

Britain
After 26 March demonstration

04/04/2011: For a 24 hour general strike!

Editorial from Socialism Today, magazine of the Socialist Party (CWI in England & Wales)

  Britain

Review
“How to Change the World”

02/04/2011: Does Eric Hobsbawm provide a revolutionary perspective?

Peter Taaffe, Socialist Party (CWi in England & Wales) general secretary reviews “How to Change the World” by Eric Hobsbawm

  Review

EuropeRegion in Revolt

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Europe: EU Austerity laws passed, 26/10/2011

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