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Turkey
No intervention in Syria! Stop the war on the Kurds!

01/03/2016: Two articles on the current situation in Turkey and Kurdistan

  Kurdistan, Syria, Turkey

Ireland
Government routed in general election

29/02/2016: Establishment parties in crisis, as a new Left rises

  Ireland Republic

China
Crisis set to deepen

27/02/2016: Year of the Monkey opens with economy in worst situation for decades

  China

US
Nevada Goes to Clinton – Sanders Looks to Super Tuesday

26/02/2016: Huge enthusiasm for Bernie Sanders’ call for a political revolution leads to serious challenge to Hillary Clinton

  US

South Africa
Worker and student protests intensify

25/02/2016: #OutsourcingMustFall campaign becomes point of reference for the working class

  South Africa

Britain - EU referendum
Vote OUT the Tories

24/02/2016: The referendum on 23 June is not just about the EU but is also an opportunity to pass verdict on Cameron and his rotten government

  Britain, Europe

 Ireland
Successful AAA-PBP electoral rally in Dublin

23/02/2016: Below, videos of TD’s (members of Irish Parliament) Paul Murphy and Ruth Coppinger at a public meeting of the Anti-Austerity Alliance/People Before Profit, after a mass demonstration of tens of thousands against water charges in Dublin

  Ireland Republic, Video

Five years on from the “Arab Spring”

20/02/2016: The “Arab Spring” revolutionary wave brought dictators in Tunisia and Egypt crashing down. It swept through the Middle East, inspiring workers and youth the world over. It has since ebbed, however, leaving the region wracked with war and sectarian conflict.

  Middle East

Italy
Roman politics riddled with scandal

19/02/2016: Five Star Movement can gain

  Italy

Israel/Palestine
Over 140 attend successful ‘Socialism Conference’

18/02/2016: Israeli and Palestinian activists discuss resisting Nentanyahu and urgent need to build socialist forces

  Israel / Palestine

 India
A Marxist view of Modi’s Hindutva

17/02/2016: Analysis of the present situation in India from an internationalist perspective

  India, Video

Greece
Farmers occupy central Athens over pensions bill

17/02/2016: “All together, workers and poor farmers, at Syntagma Square, against austerity”

  Greece

Turkey
State’s massacre in Cizre

16/02/2016: Looming civil war can only be countered by a united struggle of working people

  Kurdistan, Turkey

 CWI 11th World Congress
South Asia wracked by instability

15/02/2016: Huge potential for workers’ struggles

  Asia, CWI

Britain
Lack of strategy and exclusions threaten ‘Momentum’

15/02/2016: Left must mobilise millions to militant anti-austerity banner & building of political organisation to give it voice

  Britain

US
Bernie’s political revolution opens new era for American politics

13/02/2016: Build a #Movement4Bernie to Defeat the Billionaire Class and the Democratic Party Establishment.

  US

 CWI 11th World Congress
Upheaval of traditional European political framework

12/02/2016: Workers’ fury at austerity and capitalist system will find more expression

  CWI, Europe

Ireland North
Hundreds protest against manufacturing destruction

12/02/2016: Union movement should step up call for nationalisation of threatened factories

  Ireland North

 11th CWI World Congress
A World in turmoil

11/02/2016: Renewed economic crisis, wars, political polarisation & class struggle perspectives

  Africa, Asia, CWI, Latin America, Middle East, Russia, US, World Economy

Hong Kong
‘Fishball Revolution’!

10/02/2016: Brutal policing must be condemned

  Hong Kong

Ethiopia
Hunger and deadly repression

09/02/2016: Crisis for imperialism and a fight-back from below

  Africa

Greece
Powerful general strike opposes cuts to pensions

09/02/2016: All out in the struggle! Coordinate and develop the fight now!

  Greece

Africa
New political storms and mass struggles

08/02/2016: Opportunities will arise for working class and poor to organise

  Africa

Spain
A break in the political establishment

07/02/2016: December’s elections broke the hold of the two main capitalist parties for the first time since the Franco dictatorship. The high vote for representatives of workers’ and social movements, and the recovery of the left-populist Podemos, open up a new phase in the struggle against austerity.

  Spain

US
#Movement4Bernie Takes Off Around the Country

06/02/2016: Bernie Sanders’ call for a political revolution against the billionaire class enthuses millions

  US

Brazil
Devastating outbreak of Zika virus

04/02/2016: Another healthcare system failure

  Brazil

Pakistan
PIA strike continues despite state repression

04/02/2016: Four workers killed, eight injured as security forces open fire on protesting workers

  Pakistan

US
Iowa results reveal crisis of establishment politics - Sanders and Clinton tie

03/02/2016: “It’s too late for establishment politics, establishment economics!”

  US

Japan
Social and political unease after “twenty lost years”

03/02/2016: Weakness of opposition is Prime Minister Abe’s only strength

  Japan

 Greece
Workers strike at Contitech-IMAS factory

02/02/2016: Solidarity campaign needed!

  Greece, Solidarity

Quebec: Biggest general strike in the province’s history

11/12/2015, Massive workers’ showdown takes government by surprise
Socialistworld.net

Quebec: Public sector strike

08/12/2015, The struggle must go on!
Bruno and Remi, Hospital workers and members of Socialist Alternative (CWI in Quebec)

Quebec: Fight for 15 campaign comes to Quebec

23/10/2015, Struggle for a decent minimum wage reaches over border from US
M. H., Alternative Socialiste (CWI in Quebec)

Quebec: Government attacks spark workers’ protests

09/10/2015, Step up industrial action to defeat government plans
Alternative Socialiste (CWI in Quebec) Reporters

Québec: A hot spring in the making?

14/04/2015, Students take strike action against austerity
Deirdre Grégoire, Alternative Socialiste (CWI in Quebec)

Quebec: Towards a hot spring

02/03/2015, Disrupt them like they disrupt us!
Deirdre and Bruno, Socialist Alternative (CWI Quebec)

Québec: Election victory for the Liberal Party

06/05/2014, Unions prepare for struggle
Deirdre and Bruno, Socialist Alternative (CWI Quebec)

Quebec: General elections kick Liberals out

10/09/2012, Quebec Solidaire’s breakthrough shows potential for the left
Joshua Koritz (Socialist Alternative, CWI in the US) and Bruno-Pierre Guillette (Alternative Socialiste - CWI Quebec)

Quebec: Rise in tuition fees

30/08/2012, Interview with a student activist on the perspectives for the movement
Alternative Socialiste (CWI in Quebec)

Quebec: Student strike movement reaches turning point

21/07/2012, “Most powerful challenge to neo-liberalism” in North America
Brandon Madsen, Socialist Alternative (CWI supporters in the US)

Quebec: Interview with an organiser of the student strike

24/06/2012, "Students have been striking for over 110 days."
Joshua Koritz, first published in "Justice", paper of Socialist Alternative (CWI supporters in the US)

Quebec: New repressive law incites more student protests

25/05/2012, Hundreds of thousands of students take to streets, inviting workers to participate
Tiphaine Soyez, Gauche Révolutionnaire (CWI France)

Quebec: Mass student strike passes 100th day

23/05/2012, When authoritarianism faces resistance
Olivier Lachance, Alternative Socialiste (CWI Quebec)

Quebec: Over 200,000 demonstrate against tuition fees hike

22/03/2012, Government austerity, police repression…the students’ struggle is everyone’s struggle!
Alternative Socialiste (CWI in Québec) leaflet text

Quebec: Students take “indefinite” strike action

02/03/2012, Tens of thousands in battle against tuition fees rise
Cedric Gerome, CWI

Quebec: Thirty thousand students protest fees hike

06/12/2011, Step up student strikes!
Julien Daigneault Boucher, Alternative Socialiste (CWI Québec)

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