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Iceland
"You're fired!"

07/04/2016: Protesters stay on streets after forcing PM's resignation

  Iceland

China
Panama Papers name eight Chinese leaders

06/04/2016: Massive clampdown by state censors

  China

Britain
Panama Papers scandal

06/04/2016: ‘They’re all in it together!’

  Britain

Sri Lanka
Left political leader imprisoned

06/04/2016: Socialists demand immediate release

  Sri Lanka

US
Chicago teachers’ Day of Action

05/04/2016: 15,000 demonstrate

  US

Germany
420 attend “Socialism Days”!

05/04/2016: An expression of the recent advances and growing support for the SAV

  Germany

Belgium
Scandal in Brussels

04/04/2016: Antiracists arrested while the far right can demonstrate

  Belgium

Britain
Why socialists should vote to leave the EU

03/04/2016: Hannah Sell, Socialist Party deputy general secretary, answers some common questions about the socialist case for exit.

  Britain

Turkey
The antidote against war, terror and exploitation.

02/04/2016: For the unity of Turkish and Kurdish working classes

  Turkey

US election turmoil

01/04/2016: Bernie Sanders campaign - an opportunity to build a new party of the 99%

  US

Bangladesh
Stop the Rampal power project

31/03/2016: The world’s largest mangrove forest lies on the deltas of three rivers: the Ganges, Brahmaputra and Meghna rivers on the Bay of Bengal. It is here, in an area of outstanding natural beauty called the Sundarbans, that the Bangladeshi government plans to site a coal-fired power plant.

  Bangladesh

 Britain
Steel crisis

30/03/2016: Sold down the river by Tata

  Britain, Solidarity

Belgium
How the far-right was able to disturb the vigil for the victims

30/03/2016: Action by far-right led hooligans last Sunday in Brussels

  Belgium

Britain
A new moment

28/03/2016: Extracts from a statement discussed at the Socialist Party’s recent congress

  Britain

Ireland
100th anniversary of Easter 1916 Rising

26/03/2016: A revolt against imperial power and war

  History, Ireland Republic

History
When Khrushchev denounced Stalin

26/03/2016: 1956 ‘secret speech’ a devastating blow to Stalinist regimes

  History, Russia

Britain
Socialist Party national congress 2016

25/03/2016: A serious, thoughtful, optimistic and lively national congress of the Socialist Party took place from 19-21 March.

  Britain

China
Twin meetings, mass layoffs and failed reforms

24/03/2016: Discussion on what is happening in China

  China

Belgium
Brussels terror bombings

23/03/2016: Oppose terrorism, war and poverty

  Belgium

Brazil rocked by deep crisis

23/03/2016: Dilma’s government brought to brink of collapse

  Brazil

 11th CWI World Congress
World Perspectives

22/03/2016: Amended agreed version of the World Perspectives document agreed by the CWI’s 11th World Congress

  CWI

Germany
Big gains for right-wing, nationalist, AfD in state elections

22/03/2016: DIE LINKE (Left Party) urgently needs to change course

  Germany

US
Sanders needs to run as an independent in November

18/03/2016: Continuing the Political Revolution

  US

France
Up to half a million on streets to stop new labour law

18/03/2016: Will there be a general strike against the Valls-Hollande government ?

  France

China
Miners’ strike while People’s Congress discusses mass redundancies

16/03/2016: Thousands march in Heilongjiang province opposing job cuts.

  China

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.

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"Cypriot peope left to mercy of Robber Barons, aka the Troika"

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NEWS

Iceland: "You're fired!"
07/04/2016, Natalia Medina, Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (CWI Sweden), reports from Reykjavik :
Protesters stay on streets after forcing PM's resignation

China: Panama Papers name eight Chinese leaders
06/04/2016, Vincent Kolo, chinaworker.info :
Massive clampdown by state censors

Britain: Panama Papers scandal
06/04/2016, Dave Murray, from The Socialist (weekly paper of the Socialist Party England & Wales):
‘They’re all in it together!’

Sri Lanka: Left political leader imprisoned
06/04/2016, United Socialist Party (CWI Sri Lanka) :
Socialists demand immediate release

US: Chicago teachers’ Day of Action
05/04/2016, Two articles by Socialist Alternative members, Nick Wozniak and Steve Edwards:
15,000 demonstrate

Germany: 420 attend “Socialism Days”!
05/04/2016, SAV (CWI in Germany) reporters:
An expression of the recent advances and growing support for the SAV

Belgium: Scandal in Brussels
04/04/2016, PSL/LSP (CWI in Belgium):
Antiracists arrested while the far right can demonstrate

Britain: Why socialists should vote to leave the EU
03/04/2016, From the Socialist, paper of the Socialist Party (CWI in England & Wales):
Hannah Sell, Socialist Party deputy general secretary, answers some common questions about the socialist case for exit.

Turkey: The antidote against war, terror and exploitation.
02/04/2016, Sosyalist Alternatif, CWI in Turkey:
For the unity of Turkish and Kurdish working classes

US election turmoil
01/04/2016, By Tony Saunois (CWI Secretary) who recently visited the US for meetings of Socialist Alternative:
Bernie Sanders campaign - an opportunity to build a new party of the 99%

Bangladesh: Stop the Rampal power project
31/03/2016, Pete Mason, Barking and Dagenham Socialist Party (CWI in England & Wales):
The world’s largest mangrove forest lies on the deltas of three rivers: the Ganges, Brahmaputra and Meghna rivers on the Bay of Bengal. It is here, in an area of outstanding natural beauty called the Sundarbans, that the Bangladeshi government plans to site a coal-fired power plant.

Britain: Steel crisis
30/03/2016, Alec Thraves, Socialist Party (England and Wales), CWI Britain:
Sold down the river by Tata

Belgium: How the far-right was able to disturb the vigil for the victims
30/03/2016, PSL/LSP (CWI in Belgium) reporters:
Action by far-right led hooligans last Sunday in Brussels

Britain: Socialist Party national congress 2016
25/03/2016, Socialist Party (CWI in England & Wales) reporters:
A serious, thoughtful, optimistic and lively national congress of the Socialist Party took place from 19-21 March.

China : Twin meetings, mass layoffs and failed reforms
24/03/2016, Chinaworker.info:
Discussion on what is happening in China

Belgium: Brussels terror bombings
23/03/2016, Linkse Socialistische Partij/Parti Socialiste de Lutte (CWI Belgium) :
Oppose terrorism, war and poverty

Brazil rocked by deep crisis
23/03/2016, Marcus Kollbrunner, LSR (CWI in Brazil):
Dilma’s government brought to brink of collapse

France : Up to half a million on streets to stop new labour law
18/03/2016, Leila Messaoudi, Gauche Revolutionnaire (CWI in France):
Will there be a general strike against the Valls-Hollande government ?

Kazakhstan: European Parliament condemns treatment of political prisoners
16/03/2016, CWI reporters:
Basic rights must be respected

China: Miners’ strike while People’s Congress discusses mass redundancies
16/03/2016, Dikang, chinaworker.info:
Thousands march in Heilongjiang province opposing job cuts.

Ireland: Establishment parties hit a wall of anger
14/03/2016, By Cillian Gillespie and Ruth Coppinger MP, Socialist Party (CWI in Ireland) members:
Political crisis looms

Britain: A chance for the trade unions to lead the EU referendum debate
11/03/2016, Clive Heemskerk, Socialist Party (CWI in England & Wales):
For a socialist, working class no campaign

Refugee crisis
10/03/2016, Editorial from the Socialist, paper of the Socialist Party (CWI in England & Wales):
Cruel capitalist regimes responsible

International Women’s Day
07/03/2016, Clare Doyle, CWI:
Working women’s fight for a world without oppression

Sanders campaign at a crossroads
04/03/2016, socialistalternative.org, US:
Bernie’s political revolution will be strangled if it remains imprisoned within the corporate-controlled Democratic Party.

Ireland South: Voters reject ’two-and-a-half party system’
03/03/2016, Interview with Ruth Coppinger TD:
Left makes important gains

CWI Comment and Analysis

ANALYSIS

Britain: A new moment
28/03/2016, Socialist Party (CWI in England & Wales), published in April 2016 issue of Socialism Today:
Extracts from a statement discussed at the Socialist Party’s recent congress

Ireland: 100th anniversary of Easter 1916 Rising
26/03/2016, Cillian Gillespie, Socialist Party (CWI Ireland):
A revolt against imperial power and war

History: When Khrushchev denounced Stalin
26/03/2016, Niall Mulholland, from Socialism Today (April 2016 issue of the monthly journal of Socialist Party, England & Wales):
1956 ‘secret speech’ a devastating blow to Stalinist regimes

11th CWI World Congress: World Perspectives
22/03/2016, socialistworld.net:
Amended agreed version of the World Perspectives document agreed by the CWI’s 11th World Congress

Germany: Big gains for right-wing, nationalist, AfD in state elections
22/03/2016, Sascha Stanicic, Sozialistische Alternative (CWI in Germany):
DIE LINKE (Left Party) urgently needs to change course

US: Sanders needs to run as an independent in November
18/03/2016, Calvin Priest, Socialist Alternative (CWI supporters in USA):
Continuing the Political Revolution

European Union: Alliance with Turkey to close borders
09/03/2016, Per-Ãke Westerlund, from Offensiv - the weekly paper of Rattvisepartiet Socialisterna (CWI in Sweden):
Crises for refugees - and the EU – continues

Germany: Between hatred and solidarity
08/03/2016, By Sascha Stanicic, Sozialistische Alternative (CWI in Germany):
The situation in Germany

Turkey: No intervention in Syria! Stop the war on the Kurds!
01/03/2016, By Murat Karin, Sosyalist Alternatif (CWI in Turkey) and Paula Mitchell, Socialist Party (CWI in England & Wales):
Two articles on the current situation in Turkey and Kurdistan

US: Nevada Goes to Clinton – Sanders Looks to Super Tuesday
26/02/2016, Calvin Priest, Socialist Alternative (CWI in the USA):
Huge enthusiasm for Bernie Sanders’ call for a political revolution leads to serious challenge to Hillary Clinton

Five years on from the “Arab Spring”
20/02/2016, Serge Jordan (CWI), article to be published in the March 2016 edition of Socialism Today, No.196.:
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.

CWI 11th World Congress: South Asia wracked by instability
15/02/2016, Geert Cool, CWI Belgium:
Huge potential for workers’ struggles

US: Bernie’s political revolution opens new era for American politics
13/02/2016, Patrick Ayers, Socialist Alternative (CWI in the USA):
Build a #Movement4Bernie to Defeat the Billionaire Class and the Democratic Party Establishment.

CWI 11th World Congress 2016: Women and oppression in class society
13/02/2016, CWI World Congress Document:
A socialist approach

CWI 11th World Congress: Upheaval of traditional European political framework
12/02/2016, Sarah Wrack, Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales):
Workers’ fury at austerity and capitalist system will find more expression

11th CWI World Congress: A World in turmoil
11/02/2016, Kevin Parslow, Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales):
Renewed economic crisis, wars, political polarisation & class struggle perspectives

Africa: New political storms and mass struggles
08/02/2016, CWI 11th World Congress Document:
Opportunities will arise for working class and poor to organise

India: Rising class struggle reflects seething anger of working class
08/02/2016, Anand Kumar, from Dudiyora Horaata (Workers’ Struggle – newspaper of the CWI in India), Bangalore:
Is ‘Modimania’ on the wane?

World relations, economy and the class struggle
08/02/2016, Socialistworld.net:
CWI 11th World Congress document

Spain: A break in the political establishment
07/02/2016, Danny Byrne, CWI (article from issue 195 of ’Socialism Today’):
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.

Japan: Social and political unease after “twenty lost years”
03/02/2016, Carl Simmons, Kokusai Rentai (CWI in Japan):
Weakness of opposition is Prime Minister Abe’s only strength

World Economy: Capitalism buffeted by choppy waters
02/02/2016, Lynn Walsh, from The Socialist (weekly paper of the Socialist Party, CWI England & Wales):
Bosses strive to offload cost of crisis on working class - a struggle for system change is needed

Venezuela: Right-wing landslide
20/01/2016, Tony Saunois, from February edition of Socialism Today, magazine of the Socialist Party (CWI in England & Wales):
First electoral defeat suffered by the Chavistas since Hugo Chávez was first elected president in 1998

Leningrad: ‘Hero City’
19/01/2016, Clare Doyle (fuller version of a review article to be published in the February 2016 issue of Socialism Today):
900 days of siege in World War Two

China: Financial turmoil spreads fear across global markets
14/01/2016, Per-Åke Westerlund, with additional reporting by Vincent Kolo:
Setting the tone for 2016?