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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
21/10/2011: All out occupations and strikes! Kick out the Pasok cuts government! For
a revolutionary government of the workers and poor!
21/10/2011: Brutal assault as protesters hold their ground and block city streets
20/10/2011: Thousands take solidarity action
20/10/2011: Stop state brutality in Kazakhstan!
20/10/2011: Violence of a few used to try and curb growing opposition
19/10/2011: CWI Taiwan members make media splash
18/10/2011: Big Victory for Occupy Wall Street Movement
18/10/2011: Anti-racist demo in Malmö
18/10/2011: Preparing for the showdown
17/10/2011: Build the mass resistance to austerity!
17/10/2011: Build for 19 October ‘independent’ unions’ strike!
15/10/2011: Austrian working class gives impressive sign of life
15/10/2011: Strikes must be democratically controlled by rank and file
15/10/2011: “Difficult times - yet we are defiant and determined!”
15/10/2011: Break the power of the banks and multinationals! Fight capitalism – for
a socialist alternative to the failed profit-driven system!
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20/06/2011, Resistance to coalition government’s cuts Toby Dite, Prague |
19/09/2003, On Saturday 13 September 15 to 20,000 Trade Union members demonstrated
in Prague. The protest was against an austerity package proposed by the
government. These reforms were renamed by trade unionists as "deforms”
as they carried a coffin to Premier Vladimir Spidla adorned with slogans
saying “Government manifesto” and “Spidla’s election promises”. Czech
Railway workers blocked the Governments’ office with a railway buffer.
The board attached to it read “The gift of the railwaymen’s union to the
government of Premier Vladimir Spidla”. Vasek Votruba, Socialisticka alternativa Budoucnost (Socialist
alternative the Future), Prague. |
04/02/2003, Prague - The independent federation of tram drivers (FRT) organised a
one day strike on February 4 over wage claims. The main demand is that
tram drivers wages would be equalized with the wages of other transport
workers, like bus drivers in Prague. Picket lines were attacked by
scabs, security guards hired by management and the police force. 10 tram
drivers were injured in the clashes.
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24/08/2002, At least one quarter of the Czech Republic was flooded last week after
flash floods. 14 people died because of the disaster (some of them did
not leave flooded houses, and one died when a boat was bombed by the
authorities as a ‘safety preventative measure’). The fire fighters and
other emergency workers did a huge amount of work – they really are
heroes. Immediately after the floods started, they came from all over
the country to help. The police mostly controlled areas to stop looting. Vasek Votruba, Prague, 22 August 2002 |
19/06/2002, Results from last week’s parliamentary elections in the Czech Republic
show that the social democrats (CSSD) won with 30.4%, followed by the
communist party (KSCM) (18.8%), which is the highest vote for the KSCM
since the collapse of Stalinism in 1989. Vasek Votruba, Prague, 17 June 2002 |
01/01/2001, In the Czech Republic, political competition has made television into an
unscrupulous battleground for ambitious bureaucrats, reflecting a
government led by rival parties, the rightist ODS and the leftist CSSD,
who each want so badly to govern that they have forged an unlikely
"opposition agreement." CWI statement |
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