International
Anti-Islam movie Protests spread
Reaping the grapes of wrath
Cedric Gerome, CWI
Protests sparked by an anti-Islam movie trailer made in the US have spilled over more than 20 countries across the Middle East, Africa, South East Asia, countries with important Muslim communities,...
International
Indonesia: Massive strike against outsourcing
“Workers unite! We can’t be defeated!”
Dave Hundorf, chinaworker.info
Indonesia, Southeast Asia’s largest economy, was hit by a massive a one-day strike on Wednesday October 3. A joint statement issued by several union organisations said a tota...
China
Zhang Shujie granted asylum in Sweden
“It’s a big relief,” says Chinese CWI activist
Interview with Anna Löfgren of Swedish newspaper Offensiv
You have just been granted asylum in Sweden – how does it feel?
It feels very good! I have waited a long time for this, and it was a lon...
China
Breaking news: Chinese socialist activist Zhang Shujie wins asylum in Sweden
Forced to flee China due to state persecution of socialists and left activists
chinaworker.info
We just learned the great news: Zhang Shujie, 24-years old, who was persecuted by the Chinese dictatorship for his socialist ideas, has been granted...
International
South Africa: Marikana massacre ignites the mass movement
ANC leadership has shown since the massacre that the gulf between it and the masses is now unbridgeable
Weizmann Hamilton, Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI in South Africa), from Socialism Today, magazine of the Socialist Party (CWI in England &...
International
South Korea: Hyundai boss worth $6.2bn while workers struggle for basic wage
Campaign for permanent contracts continues
Kim Changwoo, CWI Seoul
For the last fours years, non-regular workers at a Hyundai Motors factory in Ulsan, South Korea have been taking recurring strike action and organising protests to become regula...
International
Italy: Deepening social and political crisis
Huge opportunities for building new workers’ party
Giuliano Brunetti, Controcorrente (CWI in Italy)
2012 has marked a turning point in the level of the economic, social and political crisis in Italy. After Greece, Italy is one of the hardest hi...
International
US: Political Crisis and Resistance
Perspectives for Struggle in 2012
By Socialist Alternative
This document analyzing the historic struggles of 2011, particularly the Occupy movement, and putting forward perspectives for struggles in 2012, was unanimously agreed by the National...
International
World economy: Riding the double-dipper
Capitalist leaders are in disarray as they strive and fail to get to grips with the eurozone crisis and its threat to the global economy
Lynn Walsh, from Socialism Today, magazine of the Socialist Party (CWI in England & Wales)
Capitalist l...
International
Kazakhstan:The freeing of Vadim Kuramshin
Result of massive international campaign of solidarity
Statement by Ainur Kurmanov, Socialist Movement, Kazakhstan
Today, August 28, Vadim Kuramshin was released from the courtroom in Taraz after the jury’s verdict was announced. The human righ...
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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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