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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

 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

Review

Australia: The one sided mining boom

30/10/2011, Review of “Too much luck” by Paul Cleary
By Stephen Jolly, Socialist Party (CWI in Australia)

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.
Greg Randall, Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)

Review: Why Marx was right

11/09/2011, Eagleton’s book can act as a ’refresher course’ and a useful introduction. It is not without its faults and limits, however.
Niall Mullholland, CWI

Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention - Book Review

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)

India: ‘Bhimayana’ – untouchability past and present

09/07/2011, The continuing struggle against caste oppression
Clare Doyle, CWI

Scotland: Whose downfall?

29/06/2011, ‘Downfall – The Tommy Sheridan Story’ by Alan McCombes
Book review by Philip Stott, from July/August 2011 issue of Socialism Today (journal of the Socialist Party – CWI in England and Wales)

Film review: ‘Inside Job’ exposes the corrupt world of finance capitalism

17/04/2011, This film “cost $20,000,000,000,000 to make” – a reference to the economic losses, so far, from the global crisis
Vincent Kolo, chinaworker.info

Review: “How to Change the World”

02/04/2011, Does Eric Hobsbawm provide a revolutionary perspective?
Peter Taaffe, Socialist Party (CWi in England & Wales) general secretary reviews “How to Change the World” by Eric Hobsbawm

Book review: When a Billion Chinese Jump

08/02/2011, New book on China’s environmental crisis
reviewed by Socialist Party Councillor Stephen Jolly

US: James P Cannon and the early days of the US left

03/01/2011, Book Review: ’James P Cannon and the origins of the American revolutionary left, 1890-1928’ by Bryan D Palmer
Niall Mulholland, CWI

Socialism: Is Red Plenty possible?

27/10/2010, The planned economy and the struggle for socialism
Peter Taaffe, general secretary Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales), first published in Socialism Today

Britain: Tony Blair’s destructive path

23/09/2010, Autobiography shows aim to destroy Labour as a vehicle for working class struggle
Peter Taaffe, from October 2010 issue of Socialism Today, monthly magazine of the Socialist Party (CWI England and Wales)

Reviews: Living Dolls - The Return of Sexism By Natasha Walter

01/09/2010, On the CWI’s sections’ websites reviews were published on "The Return fo Sexism" by Natasha Walter:
· Laura Fitzgerald, Socialist Party (CWI Ireland
· Jacinta Chavulak, Socialist Party (CWI Australia)
· Christine Thomas, ControCorrente (CWI Italy) published in Socialism Today
CWI

US: Laying Bare the Economic Inequalities in the American Education System

17/07/2010, A review of the book:” Tearing Down the Gates : Confronting the Class Divide in American Education”, by Peter Sacks
Tony Wilsdon

Review: The Tragedy of the Chinese Revolution by Harold Isaacs

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

Perspectives for Malaysia: A Marxist approach

01/02/2010, Review of Jeyakumar Devaraj’s "Malaysia at the Crossroads, a Socialist Perspective"
by Peter Taaffe

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