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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!

  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

US

Socialist AlternativeCWI in US: Socialist Alternative
Socialist Alternative, P.O. Box 45343, Seattle, WA  98145, ++ 1 206 842 9487, email
http://www.socialistalternative.org

USA: Urgent #OccupySeattle solidarity appeal

26/10/2011, Let #OccupySeattle stay at Seattle Central Community College!
Jordan Martinez, Socialist Alternative (CWI supporters US)

US: Mass Occupation Defeats Seattle Mayor and Police

18/10/2011, Big Victory for Occupy Wall Street Movement
Patrick Ayers, Socialist Alternative (CWI supporters in the US)

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

13/10/2011, 600 to 800 students joined student strikes
Jordan Martinez, Seattle, Socialist Alternative (CWI supporters US)

US: End the Dictatorship of Wall Street!

08/10/2011, How can we take the struggle forward?
Socialist Alternative (CWI supporters in the US)

US: Over 700 arrested on “Occupy Wall Street” march

05/10/2011, Struggle continues despite police repression
By Pete Ikeler, Socialist Alternative (CWI supporters USA)

US: Socialist Statement at Occupy Wall Street

03/10/2011, End the Dictatorship of Wall Street!
New York City branch, Socialist Alternative (CWI supporters, USA)

US: Brutal police crackdown on protestors

30/09/2011, Wall street occupation continues and spreads
Jesse Lessinger, Socialist Alternative (CWI US)

US: America’s Strange Fruit

28/09/2011, The Execution of Troy Davis
Eljeer Hawkins, Harlem, New York, Socialist Alternative (CWI in the US)

US: “Sound before the fury of the oppressed”!

17/09/2011, 40th anniversary of Attica Prison Uprising
Eljeer Hawkins, Socialist Alternative, Harlem, New York

US: Wall Street Has Two Parties, We Need One of Our Own!

12/09/2011, Divisions Deepen in the Democratic Party
By Ty Moore and Teddy Shibabaw, Socialist Alternative (CWI in US)

US: Longshore workers dump grain, shut down ports

09/09/2011, Seattle, Tacoma, and Everett ports all reportedly shut down
By Patrick Ayers, Socialist Alternative, CWI supporters in the USA)

US: 75th anniversary of 1936 auto sit down strikes

21/08/2011, When workers shut down GM
By John Gallup, Seattle, Socialist Alternative (CWI supporters in the US)

US: Teamster leadership betrays Union Drive at FedEx Ground

20/08/2011, SocialistAlternative.org interviewed a package handler, "Steven" at FedEx in Brockton, Massachusetts, who led a union drive with his co-workers.
Interview with a FedEx Worker, by SocialistAlternative.org, website of the CWI supporters in the US

World economy: Stock market collapse - global economy shaking

05/08/2011, US recovery strangled and European debt crisis deepening
Per Olsson (RS)

USA: Default averted

05/08/2011, After months of vicious manoeuvring between Republican and Democratic factions, the US Congress and president Obama agreed on a budget deal only hours before the deadline to raise the Federal government’s borrowing limit.
Lynn Walsh, International Secretariat of the CWI

US: Debt ceiling debate provides cover for historic attacks on New Deal programs

28/07/2011, This is not the “hope” or “change” millions of Americans voted for
Teddy Shibabaw, Socialist Alternative (CWI supporters in the USA)

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