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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!

  CWI

 Columbia
Grilling Commissioner De Gucht on murders of trade unionists

15/10/2011: EU Commissioner For Trade questioned for trade deal with Columbia despite continuing murder of trade union activists

  Columbia, Video

Sri Lanka
Rajapaksa government buys its supporters

14/10/2011: British Defence Secretary Fox in trouble

  Sri Lanka

US
#OccupySeattle calls for “The Night of 500 Tents”

13/10/2011: 600 to 800 students joined student strikes

  US

Hong Kong
Protest against racism

13/10/2011: Socialist Action protests against racist march • Recent anti-migrant propaganda originates from Government House

  Hong Kong

Chile
Students defy government’s ban on demonstration

11/10/2011: Riot police attack students demonstrating at Presidential Palace, general strike called in response

  Chile

 Sweden
Kazakhstan workers’ leaders in Stockholm

11/10/2011: ‘A life and death struggle’

  Solidarity, Sweden

Palestine
Abbas UN statehood bid and the views of Palestinians

10/10/2011: Hope, fear and the struggle for self-determination

  Israel / Palestine

Kazakhstan
Solidarity protest at football match in Brussels

10/10/2011: Banners unfurled in support of workers and activists at Belgium vs Kazakhstan football match

  Belgium, Kazakhstan

Film review
Tinker tailor soldier spy

09/10/2011: 1973: London is drab, faded by economic decline. The optimism of the post-war boom is gone. The world is split into two opposed systems, the capitalist west and the planned economies of the east, dominated by undemocratic bureaucracies.

  Review

 Kazakhstan
Socialist MEP "Persona non-grata"

08/10/2011: Paul Murphy speaks in European Parliament against repression in Kazakhstan

  Kazakhstan, Video

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

Libya

Libya: After the fall of Tripoli

22/09/2011, Revolution in grave danger of being seriously derailed
Robert Bechert, CWI, from October edition of Socialism Today, magazine of the Socialist Party (CWI in England & Wales)

Libya: After Gaddafi

06/09/2011, Stop the revolution’s derailment - independent workers’ action needed!
Robert Bechert, CWI

Libya: Gaddafi regime crumbles

26/08/2011, No to foreign military intervention · Libyan workers, youth and poor must act independently of imperialism
Robert Bechert, CWI

Libya: The ‘no-fly zone’, the Left and the ‘Third Camp’

02/06/2011, How to support the genuine forces in the uprising in Libya? - A Second Reply to the AWL
Peter Taaffe, general secretary of the Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)

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)

War: What is it good for? Arms sales!

23/04/2011, Arms manufacturers are excited by the Libyan conflict as it will lead to increased sales and profits.
Rob Bishop, from the Socialist, paper of the Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)

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: ’Humanitarian aid’ covers increased western intervention

19/04/2011, Libyan workers and youth must rely on their own strength
Robert Bechert, CWI

Libya: “Contact group” meeting in Qatar

14/04/2011, Unelected ‘friends of democracy’ show NATO’s hypocrisy
Robert Bechert, CWI

Libya: Defend the revolution! No to imperialist intervention!

30/03/2011, Build an independent force of workers and the poor
Robert Bechert, CWI

Libya: “Naked economic and political calculations” behind intervention

30/03/2011, Clare Daly, Socialist Party (CWI in Ireland) MP speaks against imperialist intervention
Socialistworld.net

Libya: Stop the bombing - No to foreign intervention!

23/03/2011, Build an independent movement of workers, the poor and youth
Robert Bechert, Committee for a Workers’ International

Libya: No to Western military intervention

18/03/2011, Victory to the Libyan revolution - Build an independent movement of workers and youth!
Robert Bechert, CWI

Libya: Border guard of the European Union

06/03/2011, Imperialism wants to keep control over oil resources
Per-Åke Westerlund, Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (CWI Sweden)

Libya: Gaddafi must go! It’s a fight to the finish

28/02/2011, Masses reject foreign intervention as towns fall to opposition
Niall Mulholland, CWI

Britain/Libya: Lockerbie bombing: cynical actions of capitalist governments exposed

10/09/2009, Return of accused Al-Magrahi to Libya ignites political storm
Philip Stott, International Socialists (CWI in Scotland)

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