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South Africa: Mass retrenchment threat in mining industry demands mass action
Workers and Socialist Party calls for one-day-general strike
DSM (CWI South Africa) reporters
The Workers and Socialist Party (WASP) denounces in the strongest terms Amplats’ cold-blooded plans to slash 6,000 jobs and stands in solidarity with ...
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Brazil: A victory for the mass struggle
Governors of Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, and many other cities cut transport fares but the struggle must continue.
Andre Ferrari, LSR (CWI Brazil)
Following the tsunami of mass struggles during recent days, the state government of Sao Paulo, the...
International
Egypt: Morsi removed – No trust in the generals
For independent action by workers and poor
Robert Bechert, CWI
The removal and arrest of President Morsi by the military marks a new, challenging but potentially dangerous stage in the unfolding Egyptian revolution.
Morsi’s end came quickly ...
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Turkey: “Vandals” continue to fight back
Erdogan seeks trial of strength with mass protests
Kai Stein, first published in the Socialist, paper of the Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)
On Monday, 10 June, Recep Tayyip Erdogan agreed to talk and listen to protesters. Early Tuesd...
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South Africa: Workers and Socialist Party – first steps toward uniting struggles
Following the launch of the WASP the work is ongoing to, on the one hand, complete the formal registration of the party and, on the other, sink its roots and establish its structures across South Africa.
Liv Shange, DSM (CWI South Africa)
The m...
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Sweden: Riots in Stockholm working-class suburbs
Neo-liberalism and police violence have created social time-bomb
Reporters of Offensiv, paper of Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (CWI Sweden)
Husby, a working class suburb of Stockholm, has in recent days been the focus of widespread unrest that ...
Hong Kong
Hong Kong: 1,000 demonstrators defend whistleblower Snowden
Revelations by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden have exposed US hypocrisy over cyber-spying
Text of Socialist Action (CWI) leaflet distributed at Hong Kong demonstration
As many as 1,000 protesters turned out on 15 June for a demonstration ...
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Turkey: Mass movement challenges Erdogan government
Public sector workers take strike action against police violence – For a one day general strike as a next step to bring down the government!
Sosyalist Alternatif (CWI Turkey) Reporters
KESK, Turkey’s Confederation of Public Workers’ Unions,...
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Sri Lanka: Working class beginning to move forward
The one day protest general strike held on 21 May was a significant step forward for the working class in Sri Lanka.
Srinath Perera, United Socialist Party (USP – CWI, Sri Lanka)
This extremely significant national strike - in Sri Lanka referre...
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Pakistan: Life under constant threat
Three Socialist Movement Pakistan killed in sectarian violence in Quetta
Eye witness report from Quetta, Baluchistan, by leading SMP member
Pakistan has become a killing field for people from different communities in recent years. However, the ...
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“China’s rise” – an outdated view
New Cold War: Capitalist East and West are both in decline
Editorial, issue 75 of Socialist magazine (China magazine published by ISA in China, Hong ...
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