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Haiti
Disaster compounded by capitalism
Bankers to pocket $100 billion in bonuses, while impoverished Haitians struggle to cope with disaster
Niall Mulholland, CWI
Wednesday 20 January 2010
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Turkey: Tekel workers demand – “Work - bread - freedom!”
57-day struggle to defend jobs
CWI reporters in Ankara, Turkey, Monday 8 February 2010
Turkey: Tekel workers’ struggle and general strike show the way forward
Workers and youth need their own party to fight for their interests
CWI leaflet, Monday 8 February 2010
Portugal: Public sector workers demonstrate against the government
Workers and young people take to the streets against the background of deepening crisis
Jonas Raposeiro reports from Lisbon, Monday 8 February 2010
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Britain: Trade unionist and socialist coalition
Important step towards a new workers' party
Clive Heemskerk, Socialist Party (CWI in England & Wales), Saturday 6 February 2010
Nigeria: On a cliff edge
Sharp working class policies and strategy needed to prevent total ruin
Segun Sango, General Secretary, Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM – CWI in Nigeria), Friday 5 February 2010
Turkey: Solidarity with heroic struggle of TEKEL workers!
Joe Higgins MEP supports struggle in European parliament
Socialistworld.net, Thursday 4 February 2010
Canada: Conservatives use anti-democratic powers to suspend parliament
Autocratic powers, Afghan war and job losses/wage cuts provoke protests
Clare Hudson, Socialist Alternative, BC. Canada., Thursday 4 February 2010
Hong Kong: Five resign from ‘pseudo parliament’ in push for universal suffrage
Which way forward for “referendum” campaign and struggle for democratic rights?
chinaworker.info, Wednesday 3 February 2010
Austria: Far right in process of unification
Protests in Carinthia against ruling ex-Haider party
Margarita Döller, SLP (CWI in Austria), Wien, Tuesday 2 February 2010
Germany: Successful SAV national conference
“Crisis confirms Marxism”
from SAV website, sozialismus.info, Tuesday 2 February 2010
Turkey: Determined struggle of the TEKEL workers
Striking workers demand general strike from the trade union leadership!
Nihat Boyraz, sozialismus.info, Monday 1 February 2010
Perspectives for Malaysia: A Marxist approach
Review of Jeyakumar Devaraj's "Malaysia at the Crossroads, a Socialist Perspective"
by Peter Taaffe, Monday 1 February 2010
Climate change: Copenhagen cop-out
“a historic failure that will live in infamy”
Editorial from February 2009 edition of Socialism Today, magazine of the Socialist Party (CWI in England & Wales), Friday 29 January 2010
Haiti: Survivors shackled by huge debt and poverty
Haiti’s earthquake survivors - overwhelmingly poor before the disaster struck - now homeless and unemployed.
Dave Carr, Socialist Party (CWI in England & Wales), Thursday 28 January 2010
Iran: Mass protests in December 2009 and January 2010
The struggle against the dictatorship continues
CWI reporters, Sweden, Thursday 28 January 2010
Sri Lanka: Violent election campaign puts Rajapakse back in power
Grim period ahead for workers and poor.
Socialistworld.net, Wednesday 27 January 2010
Guadeloupe: New general strike on the horizon
From revolt to revolution?
Virginie Prégny, Gauche Révolutionnaire (CWI in France), Wednesday 27 January 2010
Middle East: In solidarity with the masses of Gaza
For the building of movements and the intensification of activities to bring down the ‘Rafah wall’ - organisation of workers and the poor is the only true solidarity
CWI Lebanon leaflet, Wednesday 27 January 2010
Turkey: Sacked TEKEL workers keep up pressure with demonstrations
Messsage from Burcu Ayan, Tekgida-Is trade union, to Joe Higgins MEP
socialistworld.net, Tuesday 26 January 2010
Italy: Solidarity with the ‘No Tav’ struggle
Joe Higgins MEP supports struggle of Val di Susa inhabitants
Socialistworld.net, Tuesday 26 January 2010
Belgium: Victory for Inbev workers
New phase of trade union militancy
LSP/PSL reporters (CWI in Belgium), Monday 25 January 2010
Climate change: Capitalism´s climate fiasco in Copenhagen
"Our planet, not your profits!"
Arne Johansson, Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (CWI Sweden), Monday 25 January 2010
Sri Lanka: Reply to slanders against heroic United Socialist Party (USP)
A courageous record fighting repression and ethnic division
Senan, CWI, Friday 22 January 2010
Turkey: TEKEL workers fighting job losses go on hunger strike
Message of solidarity from Joe Higgins Socialist Party MEP
Socialistworld.net, Friday 22 January 2010
Sri Lanka: Violence escalates as Presidential election campaign enters final phase
United Socialist Party (CWI in Sri Lanka) campaign continues
Socialistworld.net, Thursday 21 January 2010
Algeria: Wave of strikes and social unrest
For workers’ unity, around a democratic socialist programme!
Cedric Gerome, CWI, Thursday 21 January 2010
Malaysia: Joe Higgins MEP condemns divide and rule tactics of capitalist elite
Socialist Party (CWI in Ireland) MEP speaks in European parliament
socialistworld.net, Thursday 21 January 2010
Chile: Right wing victory in Presidential elections
Prepare for struggle!
Celso Calfullan, Socialismo Revolucionario (CWI in Chile), Thursday 21 January 2010
US: Shocker in Massachusetts
How the Republicans Won in the Country's Biggest Democratic Stronghold
Bryan Koulouris, Socialist Alternative (CWI in USA), Boston, Thursday 21 January 2010
Haiti: Disaster compounded by capitalism
Bankers to pocket $100 billion in bonuses, while impoverished Haitians struggle to cope with disaster
Niall Mulholland, CWI, Thursday 21 January 2010
CWI comment and analysis: The tawdry morals of capitalism
Time to raise the socialist banner – For a society to eliminate the horrors of capitalism
Peter Taaffe, from forthcoming new issue of Socialism Today, monthly journal of the Socialist Party (CWI England and Wales), Tuesday 19 January 2010
Italy: Anti-immigrant violence and riots explode against the background of economic crisis
United class response needed to prevent unleashing of racism
Cedric Gerome, CWI, Tuesday 19 January 2010
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