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01/01/2012: The occupy movement brought opposition to capitalism from the margins
into the mainstream
31/12/2011: Review of 2011 - A period of revolution and counterrevolution
30/12/2011: Youth Fight for Jobs and the Jarrow march
29/12/2011: Refuse to pay the new tax!
28/12/2011: Working masses must unite against descent into anarchy
28/12/2011: Picket in New York protests against the Kazakh mission to the UN
27/12/2011: Review - "The Party: The secret world of China’s Communist rulers", by
Richard McGregor, Allen Lane, 2010, £25
26/12/2011: "A victory for workers anywhere is a victory for the workers everywhere!"
26/12/2011: Forty years ago, Bangladesh became an independent state, breaking away
from Pakistan.
22/12/2011: Russian press describe torture of detained oil workers & police reign of
terror
21/12/2011: New video shows riot police shooting unarmed protesters in Zhanaozen
21/12/2011: More international solidarity and support
21/12/2011: Campaign Kazakhstan demonstrates in Berlin and Cologne
21/12/2011: Name the date for the next strike!
20/12/2011: Stalinist nightmare continues
20/12/2011: When is an agreement not an agreement? When it’s an agreement to reach
an agreement in the future…
18/12/2011: 18/12 22:05 LATEST UPDATE - WORKERS BEING TORTURED!
18/12/2011: "European union must break off talks with Kazakhstan!"
17/12/2011: UPDATE @ 22:30 GMT - Only united and extensive workers’ action can end
this dictatorial regime
17/12/2011: Protests in Dublin, Moscow and Aachen
17/12/2011: Government debt soars to ‘European’ levels following massive stimulus
programme
16/12/2011: LATEST UPDATE 17:54 GMT Breaking News: Peaceful protesters & supporters
of striking oil workers fired upon
16/12/2011: Protests in Berlin, London, Vienna, Brussels Update 18:15 GMT Swedish
Protests
16/12/2011: Campaign Kazakhstan press statement and demands
16/12/2011: Hospital workers achieve minimum wage
15/12/2011: Conservatives speak for rich, not workers
15/12/2011: President announces 60-day state of emergency
15/12/2011: Billions flow to ultra-rich, unsecured bond holders and speculators as
workers told to pay more. Defeat the household tax!
14/12/2011: General strike sets the pace
14/12/2011: Attempt to block electoral alliances with ruling parties fails
13/12/2011: "Stability union" is "eurocratic newspeak" for suspending democracy and
enshrining austerity
13/12/2011: Capitalist chaos – class struggle sharpens
13/12/2011: 100,000 protest in Moscow and 100 cities over rigged elections
09/12/2011: Police violence follows
08/12/2011: "Without our work, your capital isn’t worth a penny!"
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|  26/08/2011, Attempts to form a new left umbrella party
Nihat Boyraz, SAV (CWI Germany),
and Jan Kowalski, CWI
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|  01/03/2010, It Is nearly seven years after the US-led invasion of Iraq. US
imperialism had hoped for a quick war, the Iraqi oil industry under the
control of US companies and a compliant, stable regime. However, the
situation today is very different to what George Bush and Tony Blair
envisaged.
Chris Newby
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| 21/08/2006, August 6 saw 4,000 people take to the streets of Chamchamal, a Kurdish
city in northern Iraq, in protest against the huge increase in fuel
prices and the lack of water and electric.
Rozh Pavilov, cwi |
| 10/09/2005, Oppressed workers and poor resist regime
Tim Lessells, Socialist Party, England and Wales |
| 25/06/2004, Since the war on Iraq, the Kurds have stood out in stark contrast to the
rest of the Middle East.
Paula Mitchell, Socialist Party |
| 17/11/2002, Kurdish people, known as the Kurds, live in an area that consists of
south-eastern Turkey, northern Iraq, north-western Iran and a part of
Syria.
Stephen Smellie |
| 03/03/1999, International Women’s Day. cwi Kurdistan campaign.
Reports compiled by CWI online |
| 01/03/1999, The abduction of the Kurdish Workers’ Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Ocalan
by Turkish secret services has sparked furious mass protests by Kurds
and more than ever internationalised the Kurdish question. The CWI
stands with the oppressed Kurdish people and supports and campaigns for
their right to self-determination.
Issued by the Committee for a Workers’ International, 1 March 1999 |
| 01/03/1999, This statement of the Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI)
mainly deals with those parts of Kurdistan which are currently located
in Turkey. It does not go into the situation in Turkey or other parts of
Kurdistan in depth.
CWI statement |
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