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Britain
A chance for the trade unions to lead the EU referendum debate

11/03/2016: For a socialist, working class no campaign

  Britain

Refugee crisis

10/03/2016: Cruel capitalist regimes responsible

  Britain

European Union
Alliance with Turkey to close borders

09/03/2016: Crises for refugees - and the EU – continues

  Europe, Turkey

Germany
Between hatred and solidarity

08/03/2016: The situation in Germany

  Germany

 International Women’s Day

07/03/2016: Working women’s fight for a world without oppression

  Women

Sanders campaign at a crossroads

04/03/2016: Bernie’s political revolution will be strangled if it remains imprisoned within the corporate-controlled Democratic Party.

  US

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

Burma

Burma: Sweeping victory for Aung San Suu Kyi party

19/11/2015, Army holds on to powerful positions
Keith Dickinson, Socialist Party (England and Wales)

Burma: Two elections, 90% support but no power

19/05/2012, Workers’ organisations must ensure real change
Keith Dickinson, Socialist Party (CWI, England and Wales)

Burma: Is the generals’ regime opening up?

12/03/2012, Workers and youth fierce struggles ahead
Keith Dickinson, Socialist Party, England and Wales (CWI).

Burma: Military dictatorship fears new round of struggle

15/02/2010, 2,000 textile workers stage strike to demand better pay and working condition
CWI Malaysia reporters

Burma: Cyclone disaster

15/05/2008, Wealth and privilege put before aid
Keith Dickinson, Socialist Party, England and Wales

Burma: Military Junta crushes movement but embers of resistance still alight

07/11/2007, Official figures belie extent of killings, maimings, disappearances and arrests
Khalid Bhatti, SMP Lahore, Pakistan

Burma: For a general strike to overthrow the dictatorship!

24/10/2007, CWI leaflet in English and Burmese
Jonas Brännberg, Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (CWI Sweden)

Burma: Army shoot peaceful demonstrators

27/09/2007, Deaths and injuries, as protests spread
Khalid Bhatti, Socialist Movement Pakistan (CWI), Lahore

Burma: Dictatorship under threat

25/09/2007, Military warns of “action” against biggest street protests for two decades
Clare Doyle

Burma: Open split in Burmese Generals’ regime

25/10/2004, On Tuesday 19 October, the prime minister of Burma, Khin Nyunt, was forced out of power by the army’s generals and put under house arrest. According to government sources, Khin Nyunt was: "Permitted to retire due to his health situation".
Jonas Brännberg, Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (cwi Sweden)

Burma: A potential paradise haunted by poverty and war

25/10/2004, Ancient kingdom prey to colonial powers
Jonas Brännberg, Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (cwi Sweden)

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