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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 ...

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,...

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...

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 ...

Britain: Thatcher – A class warrior for capitalism

Alistair Tice, Socialist Party regional secretary, Yorkshire "I would suggest as a memorial to Mrs Thatcher that instead of the usual headstone or statue, a dance floor should be erected over her grave". This was proposed by a writer to the Observ...

South Africa: Workers & Socialist Party launched in Pretoria

Launch surpassed all expectations CWI reporters, South Africa This report from our sister organisation in South Africa (Democratic Socialist Movement) was first published on socialistworld.net on 21 March 2013.  Over 500 Tshwane workers, min...

Australia: Mass campaign in defence of public housing

Public housing residents in Melbourne, Australia, have won a big victory against the Liberal State Government.  Chris Dite, an activist of the Socialist Party (CWI Australia) and a candidate in last year's elections to Yarra City Council in Melbou...

Hugo Chavez dies: The struggle continues

Millions of Venezuelan workers, the poor and youth will mourn the death of Venezuelan president, Hugo Chavez Tony Saunois, CWI Secretary In an era when the gap between establishment politicians, who defend big business and the super-rich, and t...

Mrs Thatcher and the end of British rule in Hong Kong

The process by which British imperialism exited Hong Kong, its last major colony, came again into focus following the recent death of former British leader Margaret Thatcher Dave Hundorf, chinaworker.info Thatcher, revered as a heroine by capit...

Syria: Turning point in civil war?

Regime causes untold civilian suffering and death… rebels’ carry out sectarian massacres - No to imperialist intervention Arne Johansson, from Offensiv (weekly paper of Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna, CWI in Sweden) The United States and EU powe...

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Tibet-Nepal Mudslide: The shocking cost of climate destruction, imperialism and dictatorship

More than one thousand dead in Nepal – no credible death toll yet reported on the Chinese side chinaworker.info reporters The horror of the Hi...

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