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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,...

Jilin slaughterhouse blaze – a union is a matter of life and death

121 killed in one of China’s worst workplace disasters  Vincent Kolo, chinaworker.info The term ‘slaughterhouse’ has acquired a terrible new meaning after the inferno that engulfed the Jilin Baoyuanfeng poultry plant on Monday 3 June. The b...

Hong Kong: Tiananmen vigil sends a warning to China’s new leaders

The 24th anniversary of Beijing’s crackdown draws 150,000 protestors Dikang, Socialist Action (CWI) in Hong Kong Once again on June 4, the anniversary of the brutal military crackdown in Beijing in 1989, tens of thousands of protesters massed i...

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 ...

Remembering June 4: Vital lessons for today’s democracy struggle

Hong Kong’s ‘Occupy Central’ leaders embellish the role of the middle class and ‘legality’ – ignoring key lessons from 1989 Dikang, Socialist Action This article from the current issue of Socialist magazine, produced by the Chinese section of t...

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...

Taiwan sea shooting: Filipino migrants become target of racist backlash

Anti-racist campaign needed against corrupt ruling elites and capitalism Chris Dite and CWI Taiwan reporters The Taiwanese government is whipping up anti-Filipino sentiment in the wake of the fatal shooting of a Taiwanese fisherman on May 9 by ...

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...

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Iran Ceasefire – Trump’s Biggest TACO

April 8, 2026. Per Olsson, Socialistiskt Alternativ (ISA in Sweden) Less than an hour and a half before Trump’s apocalyptic threat that “an e...

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