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    South Africa: Elections 2014

    The ANC victory, WASP and the EFF. By Weizman Hamilton, General Secretary of WASP The African National Congress has been re-elected with 62% of the vote. This represents a marginal decline with the shedding of a few hundred thousand votes i...

    Hong Kong: Erwiana returns to face new ordeal

    Hong Kong and Indonesian governments should also stand trial over migrant workers’ rights Socialist Action reporters in Hong Kong The return of Erwiana Sulistyaningsih to Hong Kong is a major event for the city’s 330,000 migrant domestic worker...

    Ukraine: Crimea breaks away to join Russia

    Tensions between powers worsen Niall Mulholland, CWI Crimea’s 16 March referendum saw an overwhelming majority vote in favour of joining Russia. According to the claimed official result, 96.77% voted ‘for’ integration and turnout was 83.1%. Ten...

    Scotland: 10 questions on socialism and the independence referendum

    Thursday 18th September is referendum day in Scotland. Discussions are taking place in workplaces, colleges, schools and communities all across the country. The run-up to September will be dominated by debate on how to vote and what might an independ...

    Dock workers: Militant methods win important victories in Portugal and Chile

    Long live working class internationalism in action! An example for other sectors. Danny Byrne, CWI Against the international backdrop, in which bosses and governments inflict a ‘shock and awe’ agenda of attack after attack on working people acr...

    Scotland: Ruling class uses scare tactics

    Main pro-Union (anti-independence) parties step up campaign ahead of independence referendum Philip Stott, Socialist Party Scotland (CWI) The growing conflict over Scottish independence has dramatically escalated following the coordinated inter...

    Three years after Fukushima disaster

    Massive environmental destruction the true cost of nuclear power Dikang, chinaworker.info The nuclear disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi plant in March 2011 was the second worst nuclear disaster ever, after the 1986 Chernobyl disaster in Ukraine...

    International Women’s Day: Salute Cambodia’s women textile workers

    Fight for a living wage met by brutal government crackdown David Hundorf, chinaworker.info When we march on International Women’s Day, 2014, special recognition should be accorded the women garment workers of Cambodia who staged a magnificent n...

    South Africa: Struggles intensify as election draws closer

    Campaigning for WASP socialist alternative at May polls By Liv Shange, Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI South Africa) As South African President Jacob Zuma, last Friday, announced that the country’s next general elections will be held on May ...

    Ukraine: Anti-government protests bring down Yanukovich

    But pro-western, right wing regime consolidates power Ukraine has seen the dramatic overthrow of corrupt and authoritarian president Viktor Yanukovich. But the lack of a working class alternative allowed reactionary forces, with western imperialis...

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    Sunflower movement transformed Taiwan’s political map

    Important lessons from the mass struggle against the Ma government of March-April 2014 Vincent Kolo Ten years ago, a mass movement erupted in Taiwan...

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