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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

  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

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

  Ireland Republic

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

Tunisia
Ennahda’s breakthrough brings major change in political landscape

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

  Tunisia

 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

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

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!

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Publications

All these publications are available from CWI publications PO Box 3688, London E11 1YE

April 2005

Upheavals in China

Even before the recent clashes between China and Japan, China was at the centre of the world’s attention.

a socialist world is possible

The introduction to the "cwi 30th anniversary" edition of "the history of the cwi" by Peter Taaffe

February 2005

socialism, solidarity, struggle

Towards a new labor movement, a Socialist Alternative pamphlet by Alan Jones.

October 2004

empire defeated

Vietnam war, lessons for today by Peter Taaffe

November 2003

Eye witness in China

The events in Tiananmen Square, May-June 1989, by Steve Jolly.

First published 1989

Troubled Times, the national question in Ireland

Peter Hadden

first published 1995

Imperialism and the Gulf war 1990-1991

Lynn Walsh, January 1991.

First published February 2003

Militant’s real history

In reply to Ted Grant and Rob Sewell by Peter Taaffe.

October 2002

Post-September 11

Can US Imperialism be challenged?

September 2002

Afghanistan, Islam and the Revolutionary Left

Peter Taaffe

February 2002

Under Siege!

Global capitalism and the socialist alternative.

May 2001

Cuba: Socialism and Democracy

Peter Taaffe

May 2000

Smash the IMF and World Bank!

A socialist alternative to global capitalism

September 2000

Global Turmoil

Capitalist crisis, A Socialist alternative

1999

Indonesia

An Unfinished Revolution.

November 1998

Che Guevara

Symbol of Struggle, Tony Saunois

1997

Che Guevara

Símbolo de Lucha, Tony Saunois.

1997

The History of the CWI

Peter Taaffe.

1997

South Korea

The Tiger Strikes, Ann Cook. (222k)

1997

Uprising in Albania

Lynn Walsh, (15,000 words).

April 1997

The Future For Socialism

Report from CWI European School, (283k)

1996

 

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The history of the cwi with new introduction by Peter Taaffe.

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Republished 1998 pamphlet ’History of the cwi’ with a major new section by Peter Taaffe.

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No to Maastricht: No to a Bosses Europe - Fight for a Socialist Europe, In five languages. £1.90

South Korea : The Tiger Strikes by Ann Cook, £1.90

The Future for Socialism CWI European School 1996 reports, £1.90

Che Guevara : Symbol of Struggle by Tony Saunois, £2.40

Indonesia: An Unfinished Revolution, £1.90

History of the CWI by Peter Taaffe, £1.90

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