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12/11/2011: Tony Saunois, CWI Secretary, interviewed on Al Jazeera
11/11/2011: Gaza Flotilla activists abducted in international waters and illegally
held for 7 days by the Israeli state
11/11/2011: “Clarity of ideas, visionary strategy, combined with an astute tactical
appreciation of the critical need to raise the mass consciousness of the
working class.”
11/11/2011: “A journey of a thousand miles begins”
11/11/2011: "A ’No Cannes Do’ summit"
10/11/2011: Debt crisis hits Eurozone’s third largest economy
10/11/2011: Government ministers "have not uttered a single word of protest in
public in response to this outrage"
10/11/2011: Activists face “harassment, humiliating body searches, being shackled”
09/11/2011: Breaking News: 7 detainees to be "released" tomorrow, followed by Paul
Murphy MEP on Friday
09/11/2011: Hundreds sign protest condemning Nazarbayev dictatorship and demanding
democratic rights
08/11/2011: Israeli authorities delay deportation, continue imprisonment
08/11/2011: New ’National unity’ government = ‘austerity coalition’
08/11/2011: Rich hoard wealth - Fight for a socialist future!
08/11/2011: And vow that the struggle goes on
08/11/2011: Tents back up in Seattle as the Occupy Wall Street movement scores
another big victory
07/11/2011: Demand the immediate release of all the detainees now!
05/11/2011: "Follow Oakland’s example: For mass actions to fight against cuts and
foreclosures"
04/11/2011: For a socialist, internationalist solution
04/11/2011: Flotillas blocked and activists detained – Send protests urgently!
04/11/2011: Government’s policies will plunge society into Greek style crisis
04/11/2011: Ship radio communication cut
04/11/2011: A list of opposition activists led by the LSR (CWI in Brazil) will
contest the second round of elections for the leadership of the largest
union of sanitation workers in Latin America.
03/11/2011: Left Alliance joins Conservative led government – Time to build radical,
left alternative!
02/11/2011: Breaking News: New freedom flotilla enters international waters
02/11/2011: Occupiers’ call for a “general strike” finds positive echo in labor
movement
02/11/2011: Labour had a good day in Presidential and by-election polls but it’s all
down hill from here
01/11/2011: Most vicious attack on unions in 13 years
01/11/2011: Study finds 1% of corporations control world economy
31/10/2011: But battles still to wage
31/10/2011: What should the next step be for the ’Occupy’ movement
30/10/2011: Review of “Too much luck” by Paul Cleary
29/10/2011: New laws to repress social protest
28/10/2011: Election ‘success story’ masks growing anger from below
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.
27/10/2011: Condemn brutal attack on media freedom, Solidarity needed!
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10/11/2011, Activists face “harassment, humiliating body searches, being shackled” CWI Reporters |
09/11/2011, Breaking News: 7 detainees to be "released" tomorrow, followed by Paul
Murphy MEP on Friday CWI Reporters |
08/11/2011, Israeli authorities delay deportation, continue imprisonment CWI Reporters |
07/11/2011, Demand the immediate release of all the detainees now! CWI Reporters |
04/11/2011, Flotillas blocked and activists detained – Send protests urgently! CWI Reporters |
27/10/2011, Condemn brutal attack on media freedom, Solidarity needed! Socialist Resistance (CWI Kazakhstan) Reporters |
26/10/2011, Let #OccupySeattle stay at Seattle Central Community College! Jordan Martinez, Socialist Alternative (CWI supporters US) |
20/10/2011, Thousands take solidarity action Socialistworld.net |
11/10/2011, ‘A life and death struggle’ From report by Arne Johansson in Offensiv, weekly paper of
Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (CWI in Sweden) |
03/10/2011, Solidarity urgently needed Sascha Stanicic, SAV (CWI in Germany) |
01/10/2011, UPDATE: 12 protesters released – Drop all charges and fines! CWI Reporters, Moscow |
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 CWI Reporters |
29/09/2011, London protest against state repression and in solidarity with oil
workers Socialistworld.net |
12/09/2011, Support the striking workers of the Charité Facility Management company
(CFM) in Berlin! Anna Shadrova, SAV, Sozialistische Alternative (CWI in Germany), Berlin |
09/09/2011, Police interrogate Ainur Kurmanov and Esenbek Ukteshbayev for a total of
16 hours CWI reporters |
29/08/2011, A solidarity picket in defense of oppressed oil workers in Kazakhstan
was held near the Consulate of the Republic of Kazakhstan and the
headquarters of the firm ’Oil and Gas Exploration’, in Krakow on August
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Further articles on 'Solidarity campaigns':- 24/08/2011: Sweden: Local miners’ union donates to Kazakhstan oil workers’ struggle
Jonas Brännberg, Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna, CWI Sweden - 18/08/2011: Ireland: Report from Protest in Solidarity with Kazakh Oil Strikers
Paul Murphy, MEP, Socialist
Party (CWI Ireland) - 15/08/2011: Kazakhstan: ‘Evidence’ fabricated against opposition leaders Ainur
Kurmanov and Esenbek Ukteshbaev
CWI reporters, Kazakhstan - 10/08/2011: Kazakhstan: Oil workers strike in West Kazakhstan now in third month
CWI Kazakhstan - 20/07/2011: Malaysia: Frightened government continues to hold the ‘EO6’
Socialistworld.net - 03/07/2011: Malaysia: Detained opposition activists brutally treated, six re-arrested
By CWI supporters, Malaysia - 27/06/2011: India: “It’s war out there!”
Appeal to CWI sections, trade unions and trade unionists - 15/06/2011: Kazakhstan: Authorities take revenge against striker’s wives and female
workers
CWI reporter, Kazakhstan - 12/06/2011: Kazakhstan: War of nerves as authorities prepare to use force
CWI reporters, Kazakhstan - 10/06/2011: South Africa - solidarity needed: 1,400 Rustenburg mine workers still
sacked
By Liv Shange, Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM), South African
affiliate of the CWI - 06/06/2011: Kazakhstan: Oil workers demonstration broken up
CWI reporters, Kazakhstan - 02/06/2011: Kazakhstan: Workers strike solid
CWI reporters, Kazakhstan - 01/06/2011: Kazakhstan: Solidarity needed for striking oil workers
CWI reporters Kazakhstan - 27/05/2011: Kazakhstan: More blood on the hands of Kazakhstan’s banks
CWI reporters, Kazakhstan - 13/05/2011: Israel: Haifa Chemical workers strike to end division between workers
and increase wages
Interview with Shay Galy, union representative of “Power to the Workers”
and member of Socialist Struggle Movement (CWI Israel) - 11/05/2011: Sweden: Hunger strike protest by 50 Iranian political refugees
Kristofer Lundberg, Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (CWI Sweden) - 05/05/2011: Germany: Berlin hospital workers on strike
Sascha Stanicic, SAV (CWI Germany)
reports from the picket line - 02/05/2011: Kazakhstan: May Day marked by attacks on CWI activists and supporters
CWI - 03/04/2011: Kazakhstan: Esenbek Ukteshbayev met with flowers and solidarity
Socialist Resistance (Kazakhstan) reporters - 31/03/2011: Kazakhstan: Embassy protests over jailing of opposition activist
Aron Amm (CWI Germany) and CWI reporters, Stockholm - 26/03/2011: Kazakhstan: Police harass opposition protesters
For solidarity - new police repression - 23/03/2011: Kazakhstan: Presidential election farce
CWI reporters, Kazakhstan - 23/03/2011: Solidarity needed: Brazil welcomes Obama with the arrest of 13 political
prisoners
CWI - 18/03/2011: Kazakhstan: Free Esenbek Ukteshbayev!
Socialistworld.net - 15/03/2011: Kazakhstan - solidarity needed: Hundreds of opposition activists march
in Astana
CWI - 21/02/2011: Greece: Mass hunger strike approaches 30 days
Appeal from ‘Hunger Strike 300’ campaign, Athens - 29/01/2011: US: Prisoner activist facing violent retaliation
Socialist Alternative (CWI
USA) reporters - 21/01/2011: Portugal: Court hearing of trade union leaders postponed
Francisco d’Oleira Raposo, Executive Comission of Lisbon Council
Workers’ Union (personal capacity) and member of Socialismo
Revolucionário (CWI in Portugal) - 19/01/2011: Portugal: Trade unionists attacked and arrested
CWI reporters, Portugal - 14/01/2011: Kazakhstan: Clamp down on opposition press continues
CWI Reporters, Moscow
2010: - 30/12/2010: Kazakhstan: Union and social movement leader, Esenbek Ukteshbaev, sees
in New Year behind prison walls
CWI Reporters, Alma-Aty, Kazakhstan - 20/12/2010: Kazakhstan: ‘Kazakhstan 2012’ opposition leader jailed
CWI Reporters, Moscow - 09/12/2010: Ireland: School student victimised for protesting cuts and fees
Eddie McCabe, Socialist Party (CWI Ireland) - 10/11/2010: China: State repression against leftist trade unionist
Shi Chuan, chinaworker.info - 05/10/2010: Germany: 100,000 resist police brutality
Sascha Stanicic and Wolfram Klein, reporting from Stuttgart - 05/10/2010: Scotland: Defend Tommy and Gail Sheridan
Socialist Party (CWI
Scotland) - 23/09/2010: Italy: Solidarity letter from Joe Higgins to Fincantieri’s workers
Joe Higgins, MEP, Socialist Party (CWI Ireland) - 22/09/2010: Kazakhstan: Appeal for solidarity with prisoners’ protest
CWI reporters, Kazakhstan - 21/09/2010: Scotland: Solidarity leader facing massive legal battle
Philip Stott, Socialist Party Scotland (CWI Scotland) - 18/09/2010: Pakistan flood crisis: Solidarity still needed
CWI - 14/09/2010: Kazakhstan: Oil workers sued by bosses for “material losses” due to
“illegal” strike
Tanja Niemeier (part of recent Joe Higgins MEP delegation to Kazakhstan) - 13/09/2010: Kazakhstan: Oil workers fight ‘unfair dismissal’
Socialistworld.net - 10/09/2010: Belarus: Clampdown in Minsk
Rob Jones, CWI - 29/08/2010: Kazakhstan: Urgent protests needed
Sotsialisticheskoe Soprotivleniye (CWI Kazakhstan) - 25/08/2010: Britain: Protest against brutal attack on Russian activists continue
John Sharpe, Socialist Party (CWI in England and Wales) - 25/08/2010: Pakistan: Thousands of telecom workers on indefinite strike
CWI - 25/08/2010: Russia: “We will not relent in our struggle”!
Igor Yasin, CWI, Moscow - 23/08/2010: Pakistan: Emergency demands massive response
CWI - 19/08/2010: Solidarity: Protests in Austria, Belgium and Ireland
Socialistworld.net - 19/08/2010: Pakistan: Workers’ solidarity urgently needed
CWI - 11/08/2010: Russia: Call for international protests against the multi-national Vinci
Construction company
Rob Jones, CWI, Moscow - 11/08/2010: Solidarity: Protests in Sweden following brutal attack on CWI members
Stefan Berg, Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (CWI in Sweden) - 10/08/2010: Hong Kong: International solidarity with our comrades in Russia
Chinaworker.info and Socialist Action - 08/08/2010: Solidarity needed - Russia: Socialists brutally attacked after
environment protest
CWI, Moscow, 8 August 2010 - 14/07/2010: NGERIA: UNPROVOKED AUTHORITIES-SPONSORED ATTACK ON DSM OAU BRANCH
Segun Sango, General Secretary, Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI in
Nigeria) - 10/07/2010: Turkey: 119 UPS workers sacked - solidarity needed!
Interview with Erol S, sacked UPS worker - 17/06/2010: Venezuela: Solidarity appeal for struggling Mitsubishi workers
Johan Rivas, Socialismo Revolucionario (CWI in Venezuela) - 28/05/2010: Solidarity: Support Torsten Sting and other dismissed workers!
René Henze, Rostock (SAV - CWI in Germany) - 21/05/2010: India: Police assault in Orissa condemned
- 13/05/2010: Kazakhstan: “Thanks comrades for support!”
Socialistworld.net - 11/05/2010: Solidarity needed: Daimler workers in Berlin threatened with expulsion
from IG Metall union
CWI - 09/05/2010: Kazakhstan : Ainur Kurmanov’s jailing appeal rejected
Socialistworld.net - 05/05/2010: ++ Stop Press ++: Kazakhstan
- 05/05/2010: Kazakhstan: Persecuted activists speak out
Interviews by Peter Taaffe, Secretary Socialist Party (England and
Wales) and International Sercretariat of the CWI - 05/05/2010: Kazakhstan: State repression of activists intensifies
News is reaching socialistworld.net of further arrests and harassment of
fighters in the labour movement in Kazakhstan. One is Esen Ukteshbaev
and the other is Vadim Kuramskin. Both were interviewed by Peter Taaffe,
Secretary of the Socialist Party, England and Wales on his recent visit
to Kazakhstan (see accompanying
article and previous
reports). - 28/04/2010: Kazakhstan: Ainur Kurmanov jailed for the ‘crime’ of reporting
opposition social movements
Socialistworld.net - 23/04/2010: Taiwan: Reinstate illegally dismissed workers at YFO
chinaworker.info, Friday, 23
April 2010. - 21/04/2010: Tamil Refugees:Protest against vile ill-treatment of refugees in
Indonesia
Statement by Tamil Solidarity campaign - 19/04/2010: Turkey: End the persecution of Tekel workers - solidarity with Okan Duman
Joe Higgins, MEP - 08/04/2010: Nigeria: Ajegunle Police Killings - socialists and others escape arrest
and criminal charges
Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI in Nigeria) reporters - 07/04/2010: Nigeria: Ajegunle Police Killings Update - Police Arrest Dagga Tolar and
two others today
PRESS STATEMENT– Segun Sango, General Secretary DSM (CWI in Nigeria) - 07/04/2010: Nigeria: Mindless police killings in Ajegunle
By Peluola Adewale, Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM – CWI in Nigeria) - 18/03/2010: Chile: Solidarity letter with Chilean Dockers
Socialistworld.net - 18/03/2010: Kazakhstan: Joe Higgins MEP sends solidarity message to the striking oil
workers
Socialistworld.net - 17/03/2010: Chile: Earthquake
Socialismo Revolucionario (CWI in Chile) - 16/03/2010: Solidarity needed - Kazakhastan: 10,000 oil workers on strike in
Zhanaozen city
- 11/03/2010: Solidarity needed - Hong Kong: Long Hair arrested
chinaworker.info - 09/03/2010: Solidarity needed - Kazakhstan: Three members of Socialist Resistance
(CWI) beaten and arrested
Comradely, EC Socialist Resistance, Kazakhstan - 06/03/2010: International Solidarity: Grant asylum to refugees held in Indonesia
CWI supporters - 02/03/2010: Costa Rica: Government launches assault against port workers’ union
Victor León, CWI member, Costa Rica - 02/03/2010: Ireland: Joe Higgins MEP interviewed at protest in solidarity with Green
Isle workers
Video Interview with Joe Higgins, MEP - 23/02/2010: Kosova: Joe Higgins MEP/ CWI call for end to politically-motivated trial
against Albin Kurti
socialistworld.net - 17/02/2010: Germany: Solidarity needed - IG Metall union threatens combative left
activists with explusion
CWI reporters
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