
latest news
18/03/2010: Joe Higgins MEP denounces the “cynical exploitation of the destruction
caused by the earthquake and tsunami by the dock companies”
18/03/2010: Ten thousand oil refinery workers have been striking since 4 March 2010
in west Kazakhstan. They are facing increasing repression from the state
and black out from the media. Joe Higgins sent the following message to
the workers on strike
18/03/2010: When the 1984-85 miners’ strike ended, most of Britain’s 180,000 miners
had been on strike for a year in a battle to save their pits, their
communities and trade unionism.
17/03/2010: A socialist analysis
17/03/2010: Facing the social earthquake, with solidarity and unity
16/03/2010: Unite and broaden the struggles of workers and youth!
16/03/2010: The following appeal was sent from Socialist Resistance Kazakhstan (CWI)
activists. This vital strike of ten thousand oil refinery workers is
facing a news blockade in Kazakhstan and also court rulings against the
workers’ right to strike.
15/03/2010: In substance, Britain’s general election campaign is a phoney war.
12/03/2010: PCS members have demonstrated their anger at the attack on their Civil
Service Compensation Scheme by staging a solid two-day strike that has
affected courts, passport offices, jobcentres, tax offices and many
other government services.
12/03/2010: Youth and workers need a socialist alternative
12/03/2010: Public sector workers under attack but union leaders’ strategy is a
recipe for defeat
12/03/2010: Joe Higgins, Member of the European Parliament for the Socialist Party
(CWI in Ireland) condemns use of preferential trade agreements to
dominate developing countries
11/03/2010: Six pro-democracy activists charged for “unlawful assembly” as China’s
crackdown extends to Hong Kong
11/03/2010: “Full support for Greek and Irish workers resisting crimes of the
speculators”
10/03/2010: Thousands marched through Brussels on 6 March to celebrate International
Women’s Day.
10/03/2010: Workers demonstrate their desire to resist, but what to do next?
09/03/2010: The IMF is the problem: They are trying to dictate the policy of the
country
09/03/2010: Urgent protests needed!
09/03/2010: Attempts by the bosses and governments across Europe to make workers pay
for the economic crisis are being met by a wave of anger and protest.
09/03/2010: Women in education, trade unions, public sector and as parents
09/03/2010: Interview with Sringatin of the Indonesian Migrant Workers’ Union (IMWU)
in Hong Kong
08/03/2010: 8 March should be start of massive campaign for an inclusive legal
minimum wage
08/03/2010: Geert Wilders’ anti-immigrant, right wing ‘Freedom Party’ makes gains
08/03/2010: 100 years of International Women’s Day
07/03/2010: In 1910 Clara Zetkin, a German Marxist, proposed that the second
Conference of Working Women in Copenhagen organise an International
Working Women’s Day.
06/03/2010: Protest against Australian/Indonesian government.
06/03/2010: Workers today need new party to stop bosses’ onslaught
06/03/2010: Build the Struggle for Grass Roots Democracy and Independence in the
Social Movements! No Support for Right-Wing MAS Candidates!
05/03/2010: 8 March 2010: New improved CWI site - For new period of global struggles
of workers and youth
05/03/2010: Public and sector workers hold 5 March strike following 4.8bn euros more
cuts
04/03/2010: Call for new powers - but to be used in whose class interests?
03/03/2010: Bring the media monsters into public ownership
03/03/2010: Hundredth anniversary of International Women’s Day
03/03/2010: There are important lessons from women’s struggle in Chinese history
that should be studied again.