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Israel
General strike over job security

14/11/2011: Workers demand permanent and direct employment

  Israel / Palestine

 Eurozone Crisis
Un-elected banker set to be new Greek Prime Minister

12/11/2011: Tony Saunois, CWI Secretary, interviewed on Al Jazeera

  Europe, Greece, Video

Breaking News
Paul Murphy MEP and other activists released; on flight home

11/11/2011: Gaza Flotilla activists abducted in international waters and illegally held for 7 days by the Israeli state

  Ireland Republic, Israel / Palestine

 Britain
Hundreds rally for socialism at successful ‘Socialism 2011’ event

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.”

  Britain, Video

South Africa
Assembly for working class unity held in Johannesburg

11/11/2011: “A journey of a thousand miles begins”

  South Africa

Italy
Berlusconi announces resignation

10/11/2011: Debt crisis hits Eurozone’s third largest economy

  Italy

 Gaza Flotilla
Joe Higgins demands Israeli ambassador’s expulsion

10/11/2011: Government ministers "have not uttered a single word of protest in public in response to this outrage"

  Ireland Republic, Israel / Palestine, Video

 Gaza Flotilla
Irish activists re-imprisoned just before flight home

10/11/2011: Activists face “harassment, humiliating body searches, being shackled”

  Israel / Palestine, Solidarity

 Gaza Solidarity Flotilla
EU Parliament President calls on Israel to free Paul Murphy

09/11/2011: Breaking News: 7 detainees to be "released" tomorrow, followed by Paul Murphy MEP on Friday

  Israel / Palestine, Solidarity

 Kazakhstan
Opposition activist Ainur Kurmanov addresses Socialist Party rally in London

09/11/2011: Hundreds sign protest condemning Nazarbayev dictatorship and demanding democratic rights

  Kazakhstan, Video

 Solidarity Needed
Paul Murphy MEP still in jail

08/11/2011: Israeli authorities delay deportation, continue imprisonment

  Israel / Palestine, Solidarity

Greece
Prime Minister George Papandreou forced out of office

08/11/2011: New ’National unity’ government = ‘austerity coalition’

  Greece

World Economy
Wealthiest man in history alive today

08/11/2011: Rich hoard wealth - Fight for a socialist future!

  World Economy

Britain
Jarrow Marchers march into history

08/11/2011: And vow that the struggle goes on

  Britain

 US
Another victory for ’Occupy Seattle’

08/11/2011: Tents back up in Seattle as the Occupy Wall Street movement scores another big victory

  US, Video

 Gaza Solidarity Flotilla
Detainees ill-treated in Israeli jail

07/11/2011: Demand the immediate release of all the detainees now!

  Israel / Palestine, Solidarity

US
New peak of occupy movement with protests in Oakland

05/11/2011: "Follow Oakland’s example: For mass actions to fight against cuts and foreclosures"

  US

Greece
Referendum proposal sends markets into turmoil

04/11/2011: For a socialist, internationalist solution

  Greece

 Breaking News
Socialist Party MEP Paul Murphy detained by Israeli Army

04/11/2011: Flotillas blocked and activists detained – Send protests urgently!

  Israel / Palestine, Solidarity

 Ireland
Joe Higgins TD lambasts government austerity policy

04/11/2011: Government’s policies will plunge society into Greek style crisis

  Ireland Republic, Video

Brazil
Left union opposition advances in the fight for the leadership of SINTAEMA

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.

  Brazil

Finland
Successfull CWI speaking tour

03/11/2011: Left Alliance joins Conservative led government – Time to build radical, left alternative!

  Finland

 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

Ukraine

Chernobyl disaster: 25th anniversary

26/04/2011, Scientists estimate nuclear fall-out caused over 200,000 deaths
Rob Jones, Moscow

Ukraine: Presidential elections see a change of name but no change for workers

24/02/2010, Economic crisis deepens and dangers of authoritarianism
Rob Jones, CWI, Moscow

Ukraine: Economic collapse and Presidential elections

13/01/2010, Five years after ‘Orange Revolution’ “victory”: Elite factions struggle for riches, while working people suffer
Rob Jones, CWI, Moscow

Ukraine: Kherson Factory occupied

10/02/2009, Workers demand control!
Vika A and Aleksei A (CWI in Crimea)

Ukraine: Prime Minister Tymoschenko blocks President Yushchenko’s early election

15/10/2008, Former ‘Orange Revolution’ allies in fierce power struggle
Niall Mulholland, CWI

Ukraine: President’s call for new elections denounced as “illegal” by Prime Minister

05/04/2007, Once more, Orange and Blue political blocs clash
Rob Jones, Moscow

Ukraine: The rewriting of Chernobyl’s history

24/04/2006, Corruption and despair – Interviews with accident victims
Rob Jones and Svetlana, CWI CIS

Ukraine: Twenty years since Chernobyl

14/04/2006, World’s worst nuclear accident
Pete Dickenson and Jon Dale, Socialist Party

Ukraine: Election results big blow for Yushenko’s ‘Orange’ policies

05/04/2006, Neither ‘Orange’ nor ‘Grand’ coalition government solution for workers
Rob Jones, cwi, Moscow

Ukraine: First post-‘Orange revolution’ elections

24/03/2006, No party represents interests of working class
CIS CWI statement

Ukraine: The rusting of the orange revolution

08/12/2005, A year ago, twelve months after former Georgian president Eduard Shevardnaze was overthrown in the so-called ‘rose revolution’, Victor Yushenko came to power as the president of Ukraine after the ‘orange revolution’.
Rob Jones, cwi Russia

Ukraine: Bitter fruit of the ‘Orange Revolution’

05/10/2005, Victors of last December’s inter-elite struggle in spectacular fall out
Vitalii Gorenko, Kiev, and Rob Jones, Moscow

Ukraine: ’Orange Revolution’ in Ukraine

22/01/2005, An eyewitness account
Niall Mulholland, cwi

Ukraine: Neither Yanukovich or Yushenko

29/11/2004, The working masses need their own alternative
Rob Jones, Socialist Resistance (cwi) in Moscow, 28 November 2004

Ukraine: Election crisis threatens conflict

24/11/2004, Right wing politicians and imperialist powers stir up ethnic tensions. A fierce power struggle between different factions of the Ukrainian ruling class - using the masses as pawns - threatens to slide the country into conflict and possibly even civil war.
Niall Mulholland, CWI, 25 November 2004.

Ukraine: Galol plant workers left high and dry

20/10/2004, Solidarity appeal
Workers Resistance, cwi Ukraine

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