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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

Egypt

Egypt: New wave of strikes

23/09/2011, Eight months after the overthrow of Mubarak, workers and youth still face poverty, unemployment, corruption and repression
David Johnson, Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)

Egypt: Former dictator Mubarak on trial

23/08/2011, Revolutionary and counter-revolutionary struggle continues
David Johnson, Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)

Egypt: ‘Determination Friday’ sees huge protests

12/07/2011, Workers and youth say, “Save the revolution!”
David Johnson, Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)

Egypt: After January 25th uprising…disappointment at speed of change

16/06/2011, Mass party needed to unite workers, youth and poor around socialist policies
By a recent CWI visitor to Cairo

Egypt: Hundreds mark police killing of Khalid Saied

09/06/2011, Struggle against state repression continues under
CWI Reporter, Cairo

Egypt: Between revolution and dictatorship

24/05/2011, Violent inter-religious conflict exploited by regime
Eye-witness report from Cairo

Egypt: Nasser and Arab nationalism

06/04/2011, Lessons for today’s revolution
David Johnson, from April 2011 issue of Socialism Today, monthly magazine of the Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)

Egypt: ‘Yes’ vote for referendum on constitutional amendments

29/03/2011, Genuine democracy needed to make real political and social change
David Johnson (CWI England and Wales)

Egypt: Armed clashes between Muslims and Coptic Christians

12/03/2011, Counter-revolution strikes – old regime has not given up
David Johnson, Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)

Egypt: “Some skin has been peeled off, but the body survives”

07/03/2011, Another mighty demonstration demands real regime change
Eye-witness report from Cairo

Egypt: Workers are demonstrating their strength

21/02/2011, The Egyptian February - class conflict sharpens
Eyewitness reports, Socialistworld.net

Egypt: After Mubarak – Strikes and protests-Part2

20/02/2011, Hawamdiya Sugar Factory Protest
Eyewitness reports, Socialistworld.net

Egypt: After Mubarak – Strikes and protests-Part1

19/02/2011, Week of escalating worker’s actions
CWI Reporter,Cairo

Egypt: Where now for the Egyptian revolution?

17/02/2011, Authoritarian regimes in Middle East fear for their rotten rule
Peter Taaffe, from Socialism Today, March 2011 (Monthly journal of the Socialist Party, England and Wales)

Egypt: The Egyptian working class enters the revolutionary process

16/02/2011, Class confrontations are challenging the regime and the whole system
CWI reporter in Cairo, 14-02-2011

Egypt: CWI leaflet distributed in Egypt after February 12

16/02/2011, In Solidarity with the Egyptian Revolution
socialistworld.net

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