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Turkey: 12 September 2010 - 30th anniversary of the military coup
Referendum in Turkey: Erdoğan tries to change the balance of forces
Kazakhstan: Police prevent human rights defender meeting Joe Higgins, MEP
Ireland: Brian Cowen fifth best global leader! You must be joking
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Kazakhstan: Police prevent human rights defender meeting Joe Higgins, MEP

08/09/2010: Police hold human rights defender, Vadim Kuramshin, for 10 days to prevent him meeting Joe Higgins MEP

  Kazakhstan

Ireland: Brian Cowen fifth best global leader! You must be joking

08/09/2010: Despite being the most unpopular Taoiseach in the history of the state, at the head of the most unpopular government in the history of the state, Brian Cowen has been ranked as the fifth best global leader of the year by the American Newsweek magazine.

  Ireland Republic

Kazakhstan: Visiting socialist MEP meets workers in struggle & opposition activists

08/09/2010: Brutal Nazerbayev regime presides over ticking social time-bomb

  Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan: Vadim Kuramshin freed from prison

07/09/2010: Arrest of human rights lawyer and campaigner backfires on authorities

  Kazakhstan

Germany: Mass-Movement against Stuttgart 21 continues

07/09/2010: “Democracy is sometimes a little bit difficult“, said the mayor of Stuttgart, facing a mass movement against the railway project, ‘Stuttgart21’.

  Germany

Britain: Battles ahead on London Underground

06/09/2010: Strike will start today

  Britain

Venezuela: Activists, including CWI members, arrested and detained by state forces

03/09/2010: Repression and criminalisation of struggle is not socialism!

  Venezuela

Brazil: Support the Plinio de Arruda Sampaio campaign!

02/09/2010: A socialist candidate for the Brazilian presidential elections

  Brazil

Nigeria: Goodluck Jonathan Presidency

02/09/2010: Can Nigeria experience positive development and improved living conditions?

  Nigeria

South Africa: Public sector struggle continues

01/09/2010: Say no to job cuts and poverty wages!

  South Africa

Britain: ConDem government plans to slash council services

01/09/2010: Do local councillors have ‘no choice’? – Lessons from 1980s Liverpool Council struggle

  Britain

Poland: 30th anniversary of Solidarnosc

31/08/2010: The celebrations of the 30th anniversary of Solidarity take place against the background of attacks and an unprecedented media campaign against today’s trade unions and workers.

  Poland

Russia: President Medvedev suspends Khimkinskii motorway construction

31/08/2010: Struggle must continue to save environment and to win democratic rights!

  Russia

Scotland: SNP relegate independence in wake of economic crisis

31/08/2010: SNP are putting independence on the backburner

  Scotland

Theory: Is “human nature” a barrier to socialism?

30/08/2010: Aren’t people motivated by money? Wouldn’t socialism stifle hard work and innovation?

  Theory

 Kazakhstan: Urgent protests needed

29/08/2010: Lawyer attacked and arrested in run-up to Euro MP’s visit

  Kazakhstan, Solidarity

"Charity": Let them eat cake, not the crumbs off the table ...

29/08/2010: Business and media circles are agog at “the most significant development in philanthropy” for many decades.

  World Economy

US: Stolen Legacy - The Tea Party’s March on Washington

28/08/2010: On August 28, the right-wing populist Tea Party Movement, an assortment of conservative organizations, and Fox News commentator Glenn Beck will descend on Washington, D.C. for the so-called “Restoring the Honor” rally.

  US

Australia: Neither big business party given mandate to govern

28/08/2010: The Australian Federal election held on August 21 delivered a hung parliament – the first in 70 years. Neither the Labor Party led by Julia Gillard nor the Coalition led by Tony Abbott won the 76 seats required to form a government. The result is both a reflection of the lack of enthusiasm people have towards the two major parties and a reflection of the uncertain future that faces Australian capitalism.

  Australia

Bangladesh: fighting poverty pay

27/08/2010: Strike and protest action in around 4,000 factories

  Bangladesh

Pakistan emergency: Women and children most at risk in flood-hit areas

27/08/2010: “Criminal negligence” of government and the super-rich

  Pakistan

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Turkey
12 September 2010 - 30th anniversary of the military coup

09/09/2010: For the Turkish and Kurdish working class and the left, September 12 is above all a day of remembrance of one of the heaviest blows against the workers in recent history.

Nelli Tügel, SAV (CWI in Germany)

  History, Turkey

Britain
Fight-back!

03/09/2010: The only antidote to painful public-sector cuts

Hannah Sell, from Socialism Today, magazine of the Socialist Party (CWI in England & Wales)

  Britain

Northern Ireland
Dissident republicanism Nothing to offer but a return to sectarian killings

27/08/2010: Accordging to the Police Federation of Northern Ireland, dissident republican groups have been responsible for carrying out an average of two attacks a day since the beginning of the year.

Gary Mulcahy, Socialist Party (CWI Ireland)

  Ireland North

29 September
Europe braced for working class action across borders

24/08/2010: Towards a 24 hour all-European general strike!

CWI statement

  Europe

France
The decay of Sarkozy’s government

23/08/2010: Racism, corruption, economic crisis and class struggle

Cedric Gerome, CWI

  France

 Theory
New introduction to The Transitional Programme

21/08/2010: Trotsky’s key 1938 work shows rich application of the method of Marxism

Peter Taaffe, general secretary of the Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)

  CWI, Theory, Trotsky

History
70th anniversary of the assasination of Leon Trotsky

16/08/2010: Coming mass revolts will see workers and youth look to Trotsky’s ideas

Peter Taaffe, General Secretary Socialist Party (CWI England and Wales)

  History, Trotsky

Italy
Government crisis against background of growing polarisation

13/08/2010: Towards a wave of struggle?

Marco Veruggio, Controcorrente

  Italy

Pakistan
Unprecedented devastation caused by floods - poor suffer the most

12/08/2010: Appeal for workers’ solidarity!

socialistworld.net

  Pakistan

Afghanistan
US strategy in disarray

08/08/2010: The concerted might of the strongest and largest military force in the world, that of the US, is failing to defeat the disparate and crudely equipped Taliban militias in one of the poorest countries of the world.

From the Socialist, newspaper of the Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)

  Afghanistan, US

Venezuela / Colombia
Chavez breaks ties with Colombia as tensions mount

04/08/2010: For international solidarity and struggle for socialism!

Socialismo Revolucionario (CWI in Venezuela)

  Columbia, Venezuela

The Chaos of Capitalism
BP, Oil, Destruction and Profits

25/07/2010: Words fail to fully describe the devastation in the gulf. Eleven lives lost, ecosystems destroyed, thousands of livelihoods are ruined, and the calamity continues. This will become the greatest environmental disaster in U.S. history.

Bryan Koulouris, Socialist Alternative (CWI USA)

  Environment, US

Egypt
Thousands protest over brutal police killing

09/07/2010: Spring wave of strikes and protests

David Johnson, CWI

  Egypt

Kazakhstan
The fight goes on

07/07/2010: Workers’ leaders will not be cowed by persecution

Elizabeth Clarke, CWI

  Kazakhstan

France
Mass protests sweep the country

01/07/2010: 2 million on the streets to defend pensions

Cedric Gerome, CWI, London, and Virginie Pregny, Gauche Revolutionnaire (CWI in France)

  France

G20
From stimulus to austerity at dizzying speed

29/06/2010: The G20 meeting in Toronto of the leaders of the main capitalist governments of the world demonstrated a complete incapacity to solve the huge problems that confront us, particularly those hardest-hit – the poor and the working class – by the economic crisis.

Editorial from the Socialist, paper of the Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)

  World Economy

Nepal
The great general strike - the permanent revolution

29/06/2010: What way forward after the great mass movements of April 2006 and 2009

Senan, CWI

  Nepal

G20
Make the rich pay for their crisis!

25/06/2010: Nationalise the banks under the democratic control of the working population

Mouvement pour le Parti Socialiste du Québec (CWI in Quebec) and Socialist Alternative (CWI in Canada)

  Anti-capitalism, Canada, Quebec, World Economy

Brazil
“Congress of the working class” ends in division

25/06/2010: Division at congress and non-formation of unified trade union and popular centre represents a setback for workers – learn the lessons and work for unity!

LSR (CWI in Brazil) statement on Congress of the Working Class

  Brazil

Kyrgyzstan
Ethnic conflict explodes

17/06/2010: For workers’ unity against pogroms and ruling elites!

Rob Jones, Moscow

  Kyrgyzstan

Pakistan solidarityyouth in revolt

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Britain/France: Protest in London against Sarkozy’s racist policies, 06/09/2010

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