  latest news
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!
26/10/2011: ArcelorMittal wants to close ‘liquid’ steelproduction in Liège. Workers
resist, unions call for nationalisation.
26/10/2011: Let #OccupySeattle stay at Seattle Central Community College!
26/10/2011: "Six pack" rules institutionalise austerity across the EU
25/10/2011: Clear opening for radical ideas developing
25/10/2011: Independent action by Libyan workers, youth and poor vital to prevent
revolution’s derailment
24/10/2011: Strike action wins concessions - but 4.2% is not enough!
24/10/2011: Malaysian economy enters difficult period
22/10/2011: Eurozone crisis deepens
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|  17/09/2011, 40th anniversary of Attica Prison Uprising
Eljeer Hawkins, Socialist Alternative, Harlem, New York
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|  15/09/2011, While no historical period is identical with Britain now, the tumultuous
events that shook the country 80 years ago – combining the great
depression, a ‘grand coalition’ government wielding the axe, and a
damaging currency peg – are rich in lessons for workers in Britain and
Europe today.
Hannah Sell, Socialist Party (CWI England and Wales), first published in
Socialism Today
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|  10/09/2011, 1973 bloody coup against Popular Unity government – Lessons for today
Tony Saunois, CWI
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|  20/08/2011, Attempted Stalinist counter-revolution speeds up capitalist
counter-revolution
Clare Doyle, International Secretariat of the CWI
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|  20/07/2011, In the hearts and minds of workers particularly black workers, the poor, and youth across the world, Malcolm X remains an icon of revolutionary spirit and commitment to justice, freedom, and liberty for the most oppressed people in the world.
Eljeer Hawkins, Harlem, New York, Socialist Alternative (CWI supporters in the US)
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|  09/05/2011, 140th anniversary - Heroic few weeks when working class took power
Niall Mulholland, CWI
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|  05/05/2011, Thatcher’s brutal prisons regime
Reprint articles by Tony Saunois and Peter Hadden and introduction (Socialism
Today, May 2011 issue)
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|  25/04/2011, A warning for the workers’ movement
Andrew Price, from the Socialist, paper of the Socialist Party (CWI
England & Wales)
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|  30/12/2010, Ireland convulsed by economic crisis and savage austerity cuts - Time to
reconnect with Connolly’s socialist ideas
Niall Mulholland (from Socialism Today)
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|  20/12/2010, New book on 1960/61 general strike published by CWI in Belgium
By Nicolas Croes, LSP/PSL (CWI in Belgium)
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|  30/09/2010, September marks the 90th anniversary of a mass movement of factory
occupations in Italy which put the continuation of capitalism in
question. Yet the September movement failed to overthrow the
capitalists’ rule and its demise paved the way for the rise of fascism.
Christine Thomas, ControCorrente (CWI Italy), first published in Socialism
Today
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|  09/09/2010, For the Turkish and Kurdish working class and the left, September 12 is
above all a day of remembrance of one of the heaviest blows against the
workers in recent history.
Nelli Tügel, SAV (CWI in Germany)
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|  16/08/2010, Coming mass revolts will see workers and youth look to Trotsky’s ideas
Peter Taaffe, General Secretary Socialist Party (CWI England and Wales)
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|  22/05/2010, The Chinese revolution of 1925-27 represented one of the most gigantic
and splendid movements in human history.
Peter Taaffe, Socialist Party general secretary
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Further articles on 'History':2009: - 27/11/2009: History: Stalin’s Terror of 1937-1938
Peter Taaffe, Socialist Party (CWI England and Wales) - 18/11/2009: Soviet Union: Revolutionary ferment of twenty years ago
Clare Doyle, CWI, (who visited Russia in 1989 and lived there for five
years until 1995) - 05/11/2009: 1989: From perestroika to capitalist restoration
Rob Jones, CWI, Moscow - 05/11/2009: 1989: Germany - Power was lying on the street
Ingmar Meineke, Sozialistische Alternative (SAV – CWI in Germany). From
November 2009 edition of Socialism Today, magazine of the Socialist
Party (CWI in England & Wales - 03/11/2009: Poland: Defeat from the jaws of victory
Paul Newberry, Group for a Workers’ Party (CWI in Poland) - 02/11/2009: History: A Planet without Debates
Socialistworld.net - 19/10/2009: History: Stalinism and after
Peter Taaffe, General Secretary, Socialist Party (CWI in England &
Wales). Article from Socialism Today, magazine of the Socialist Party. - 01/10/2009: History: 60th anniversary of Chinese Revolution
Vincent Kolo, chinaworker.info - 11/09/2009: Chile 1973: ’Latin America’s 9/11’
John Reid, Socialist Party (CWI England and Wales) - 08/09/2009: Russia: Debate on ‘Stalin’s criminal pact’
socialistworld.net - 24/08/2009: History: Marxism and the second world war
Peter Taaffe, from Socialism Today, magazine of the Socialist Party, cwi
in England and Wales - 27/04/2009: History: Spanish civil war
Hannah Sell, Socialist Party (CWI in England & Wales) - 06/03/2009: History: 25th anniversary of the British Miners’ Strike
‘A civil war without guns: The lessons of the 1984-85 miners’ strike’ By
Ken Smith (first published in 2004) - 27/02/2009: History: Iran 1979: A revolution that was taken from the working class
Chris Moore from The Socialist, weekly paper of the Socialist Party (CWI
England and Wales) - 24/01/2009: History: 90th anniversary of murder of Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht
Peter Taaffe, from Socialism Today (February 2009 issue)
2008: - 24/12/2008: History: 1938 anniversary - Founding the Fourth International
Niall Mulholland, cwi - 04/11/2008: History: German Revolution 1918
Peter Taaffe, General Secretary, Socialist Party, cwi in England and
Wales - 04/11/2008: History: German Revolution 1918
Robert Bechert, cwi - 17/04/2008: History: 1968 Year of Revolution
Peter Taaffe, General Secretary, Socialist Party, cwi in England and
Wales - 07/04/2008: Northern Ireland: Death on the rock of Gibraltar - 20 years since SAS
killing of three IRA volunteers
Peter Hadden, Socialist Party (CWI Ireland), Belfast - 31/03/2008: History: From Montgomery to Vietnam
Will Soto, Socialist Alternative, CWI USA - 31/03/2008: History: 40 Years Since King’s Assassination
Brett Hoven, Socialist Alternative, CWI USA - 30/01/2008: History: 75th anniversary of Hitler’s coming to power
Ben Robinson, Socialist Party (England and Wales)
2007: - 07/11/2007: History: 90th anniversary of the Russian Revolution
socialistworld.net - 11/10/2007: History: Russian revolution 90th anniversary
Peter Taaffe, General Secretary, Socialist Party - 27/09/2007: History: 40th anniversary of the death of Che Guevara
Tony Saunois, CWI - 12/07/2007: Russian Revolution 1917: The 1917 ’July days’ - rich in lessons for today
Peter Taaffe, Socialist Party general secretary, London - 11/05/2007: History: Northern Ireland - 1907 Dockers and Carters’ strike
Peter Hadden, Socialist Party, Belfast, Northern Ireland - 30/03/2007: History: Reform or revolt? How was the slave trade abolished?
Hugo Pierre, Socialist Party, England and Wales - 16/03/2007: history: February revolution 1917 - what lessons for today?
Peter Taaffe, general secretary of the Socialist Party
2006: 2005: - 14/11/2005: United Nations: 60 years of failure
Paula Mitchell, Socialist Party - 04/11/2005: History: How the British Labour Party was formed
Peter Taaffe, Socialist Party - 10/10/2005: History: Fortieth anniversary of massacre of Indonesian left
Niall Mulholland, cwi - 19/08/2005: Publication: “Che guevara -symbol of struggle” by Tony Saunois
socialistworld.net - 10/08/2005: History: Hiroshima – 60 years
Lynn Walsh, Socialist Party - 07/05/2005: History: Sixty years after the end of World War Two
Holger Dröge, SAV (CWI), Berlin - 01/05/2005: History: How Gorbachev failed to save the Soviet Union
Dave Reid, Socialist Party, England and Wales - 22/03/2005: Review: 1905 Russian Revolution on the screen
Aron Amm, Berlin - 28/02/2005: History: Malcolm X - "They called me the angriest Negro in America"
Hugh Caffrey, Socialist Party - 09/02/2005: History: Holocaust week
Robert Bechert, cwi statement - 08/02/2005: history: The Holocaust - who was to blame?
Tony Mulhearn, Merseyside - 01/02/2005: 1905 Russian Revolution: Trotsky’s speech defending the St Petersburg
Soviet
- 31/01/2005: History: 1905 Russian Revolution - 100 years since ‘Bloody Sunday’
- 23/01/2005: History: 1905 Russian Revolution - When workers gained a glimpse of power
Sarah Sachs-Eldridge, Socialist Party - 23/01/2005: Teamster Rebellion: 70th anniversary of Labor’s historic victory in
Minneapolis
Canyon Lalama, Minneapolis - 13/01/2005: History: 1905 Russian Revolution - The working class shows its strength
PerAke Westerlund, Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna, cwi Sweden
2004: - 18/11/2004: Che Guevara: A legacy of struggle
Daniel Waldron, Socialist Party, Ireland - 25/07/2004: Nicaraguan Revolution: Marxism and the Nicaraguan revolution
Bob Labi, cwi - 25/07/2004: History: Perspectives for the Nicaraguan revolution
Tony Saunois, cwi - 29/06/2004: history: Remembering Tiananmen Square, eye witness in China
Steve Jolly, Socialist Party, Australia - 28/06/2004: History: Legacy of Thatcher
Ronnie Stevenson, cwi Scotland - 28/05/2004: Socialist History: ‘Not for God and not for Fatherland’ by Ron Blom
Review by Pieter Brans - 26/04/2004: History: How abortion rights were won in the US
Ramy Khalil - 25/04/2004: History: 1974, revolution in Portugal
Manny Thain - 14/04/2004: socialist history: Bayard Rustin and the Civil Rights Movement
Eljeer Hawkins, Harlem, NY - 09/04/2004: History: 1984 -85 Miners’ strike, Britain
Ciaran Mulholland - 25/01/2004: Socialist history: Irish civil war fears revealed
Ciaran Mulholland - 09/01/2004: Britain: 20 years ago - When Liverpool beat Thatcher
2003: 2002: - 17/10/2002: History: 1962 Cuban missile crisis
Special feature from The Socialist, paper of the Socialist Party,
England and Wales section of the CWI. - 05/10/2002: History: Che Guevara - revolutionary fighter
Special feature from The Socialist, paper of the Socialist Party,
England and Wales section of the CWI. - 16/09/2002: Obituary: Jimmy Deane - pioneer of Trotskyism
Keith Dickinson, Socialist Party, CWI section, England and Wales - 08/09/2002: History: Lessons from the anti-Vietnam war movement
Tony Wilsdon and Philip Locker, US - 31/08/2002: History: James Connolly voted onto 100 "Greatest" people
Niall Mulholland, CWI - 15/07/2002: History: Watergate - Rotten apples in a mouldy barrel
Jim Horton, Socialist Party, England and Wales - 12/07/2002: History: 1912 Lawrence strike
Greg Beiter, US
2001:
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