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    Hong Kong: Massive protest movement against school brainwashing plan

    Mass movement develops rapidly, then its leaders call a sudden halt Socialist Action (CWI in Hong Kong) comments: Not many governments can match the record of Hong Kong leader Leung Chun-ying (“CY”) for pushing so many angry people to join street ...

    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...

    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...

    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...

    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...

    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...

    What’s behind the trial of Gu Kailai?

    Sensational murder trial of princeling wife hides more than it reveals Vincent Kolo, chinaworker.info At her one-day trial on 8 August, Gu Kailai, the wife of former CCP (Chinese Communist Party) high-flyer Bo Xilai, confessed to poisoning Brit...

    Britain: Big business and the London Olympics

    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 Africa: [Updated] Solidarity with Lonmin’s miners

    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 ...

    Russia:“Pussy riot” – made into scapegoats by revengeful Putin

    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...

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    US: The Democrats after their defeat

    Bryan Koulouris, Socialist Alternative (ISA in the United States) (This article was first published on 3 January 2025) Around the globe, incumbent p...

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