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Scotland
Second referendum on independence?

18/03/2017: SNP fire the starting gun but offer no solutions to austerity

  Aceh

Brazil
National day of strikes and protests shows Temer can be beaten

17/03/2017: For a one-day general strike as the next step

  Brazil

South Africa
Unity against poverty, crime and xenophobia

17/03/2017: Capitalist politicians use xenophobia to divert attention from failures of profit system

  South Africa

Netherlands
Election result a colossal defeat for austerity government

16/03/2017: Oppose Wilders and the ‘mainstream’ right – Build a mass workers’ party that struggles for socialism

  Netherlands

Yemen
Workers and their families left to starve by multi-billionaire companies

16/03/2017: International campaign needed to force companies to pay

  Yemen

Hong Kong
Protest against LSG Sky Chefs dismissal of union chairman

14/03/2017: Ng Chi-Fai sacked for organising union by multinational’s Hong Kong division – international solidarity needed

  Hong Kong

Ireland North
Snap election raises sectarian temperature    

14/03/2017: Workers need strong socialist alternative at ballot box and in unions

  Ireland North

Quebec
Counter protest against far-right

13/03/2017: Rise of Islamophobia and right-wing reaction poses new challenges to the left

  Quebec

 International Women's Day
Speech by Kshama Sawant

12/03/2017: Video of 8 March rally in Seattle

  Women

 International Women’s Day
Millions join marches and take action

10/03/2017: Socialists around the world demand an end to women’s oppression

  Women

 Hong Kong
Women’s march against sexism and racism

09/03/2017: International Women’s Day: “Solidarity with global mass protests and women’s strikes”

  Women

 Spain
Hundreds of thousands participate in International Women’s day student strike

08/03/2017: ‘Libres y Combativas’ and Sindicato de Estudiantes call strike against sexist violence and for working class women's rights

  Women

Pakistan
Political spectacle of the ruling class

08/03/2017: Most workers underemployed, 40% in poverty - situation demands new workers’ party

  Pakistan

 International Women’s Day 2017
A century on from the Russian Revolution

06/03/2017: Demonstrations world-wide swelled by anti-Trump anger

  Women

Britain
Massive demo shows battle to save the NHS can be won

06/03/2017: Up to 250,000 march in national protest, organised from below

  Britain

Egypt
Price hikes hit workers and middle classes

04/03/2017: Falling support for dictator Sisi portends growing opposition

  Egypt

Hong Kong’s sham election

03/03/2017: Pan-democrats sink to new low by supporting “lesser evil” John Tsang

  Hong Kong

US
Socialist response to Trump’s address to joint session of congress

02/03/2017: Kshama Sawant, Socialist Alternative councillor, speaks

  US

Sweden
“Who could believe it?"

24/02/2017: What is behind Trump's attack?

  Sweden

Britain/Ireland
Dublin's #JobstownNotGuilty

23/02/2017: Defend the right to protest - stop this political vendetta!

  Ireland Republic

Ireland
A web of intrigue sparks government crisis

22/02/2017: Smear campaign against a prominent police whistleblower

  Ireland Republic

February revolution 1917
What lessons for today?

21/02/2017: 23 February 1917 (8 March in today’s calendar) marked the beginning of the socialist revolution in Russia, which sparked a revolutionary wave that would travel around the world.

  Russian Revolution

 Yemen
International protests in support of TOTAL/G4S workers

20/02/2017: Solidarity spreads for victims of wage robbery and killing by multinational corporations

  Solidarity, Yemen

Netherlands
Anti-immigrant Freedom Party leading polls ahead of general elections

18/02/2017: Only a choice between the “regular” and far-right?

  Netherlands

Britain
Council cuts can be fought - and they must be

16/02/2017: Corbyn needs to stand up to Brexit rebels

  Aceh

Spain
Pablo Iglesias wins clear victory in Podemos congress

15/02/2017: Time to build the class struggle on the streets

  Spain

US
A socialist strategy to defeat Trump

14/02/2017: Escalate the resistance toward shutdowns on March 8 and May 1!

  US

Scotland
Greens back SNP government austerity budget

13/02/2017: TUSC council elections candidates put forward 100% anti-austerity programme

  Scotland

India
Upheaval in Tamil Nadu

09/02/2017: Corruption, nepotism, and other crimes of ruling party exposed

  India

Norway

Norway: Lessons of the pilots’ strike

25/03/2015, A struggle against outsourcing
Elin Gauffin, Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (CWI Sweden)

Norway: One and a half million workers involved in political strike

03/02/2015, "We must fight entire right-wing politics"
Trond Sverre and Elise Kolltveit (CWI Norway) and Elin Gauffin, Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (CWI Sweden)

Norway: General strike called for 28 January

10/01/2015, Two-hour protest against worsening working conditions
Trond Sverre and Elise Kollveit (CWI, Oslo)

Norway: Right-wing parties win recent elections

23/09/2013, Racist-populist ’Progress Party’ now to be in government
Editorial in last week’s Offensiv, weekly paper of Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (CWI Sweden)

Norway: Mass murderer Anders Breivik gets life sentence

31/08/2012, ‘Massacres caused by right-wing extremism and Islamophobia’
Trond Sverre and Elise Kolltveit, Oslo

Norway: Biggest strike since the 1980s

06/06/2012, “Red-Green” government forced to retreat
Trond Sverre and Elise Kolltveit (CWI Norway)

Norway: Far right Breivik states his loathing of ’equality’ and socialism

20/04/2012, Extreme right-winger boasts of killing 77 during court trial
Per-Åke Westerlund, Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (CWI Sweden)

Norway: Racist ‘Progress Party’ biggest loser in elections

19/09/2011, Labour Party gains less then predicted
Trond Sverre and Elise Kolltveit, CWI, Norway

Norway: Right-wing parties lose support after massacre

25/08/2011, Interest among people to organize has increased
Trond Sverre Kolltveit and Elise Kolltveit, from Offensiv, weekly paper of Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (CWI in Sweden)

Norway: Right wing terrorist massacres 85 at youth camp

25/07/2011, How should the workers’ movement respond?
Per-Åke Westerlund, Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (CWI Sweden)

Norway: Protests against health care cuts

16/01/2007, ‘Red-Green’ government feels working people’s anger
Johan Sand, CWI, Norway

Norway: World Bank ‘poverty’ conference bunkers on the Heights of Oslo while city celebrates anti-capitalist carnival

26/06/2002, "The sad statistics about African economic performance have become so familiar as almost to lose their ability to shock: that, for example, more than half the population lives on less than $1 a day, 250 million people have no drinking water, and two-thirds of the world’s cases of Aids are in southern Africa.
Trond- Sverre Kolltveit, CWI Norway, 26 June 2002

Norway: World Bank Oslo conference

19/06/2002, Several demonstrations are planned to protest against the World Bank’s Annual Bank Conference on Development Economics (ABCDE) Conference in the Norwegian capital, Oslo, 24-26 June.
Trond-Sverre Kolltveit, Norway, 17 June 2002

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