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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...

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 &...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

The greatest sporting, and money-making, show on earth Manny Thain, from an edited version of an article in Socialism Today (monthly magazine of the Socialist Party, CWI England and Wales) The 2012 Olympic Games, held in London, will start with...

South African police massacres striking workers at Marikana - call for protest action DSM (CWI South Africa) At least 46 workers were shot dead, and many more injured, on August 16 as a massive police assault was launched to crush a strike ...

Public support growing for punk group! Rob Jones Moscow It would have been difficult to predict a year ago that a group of “third generation feminist punk rockers” calling themselves “Pussy riot” and dressed in brightly colored balaclavas and w...