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31 March 2009 CWI European meeting: The European Bureau of the Committee for a Workers' International (CWI) took place this week. The CWI is the socialist international to which the Socialist Party is affiliated. The meeting discussed the... 31 March 2009 THERE HAS been a tidal wave of outrage generated by the bonus payments paid to top bankers after their bankrupt corporations were bailed out with public funds... 25 March 2009 "FIGHTING BACK makes a difference!" This slogan was written on a cardboard placard by workers who occupied their former workplace, Aradco - a parts supplier for the vehicle manufacturer Chrysler in Windsor, Ontario, writes Clare Hudson, British Columbia, (CWI, Canada). 25 March 2009 ON THURSDAY 5 March, over ten blocks on Broadway, from City Hall to Canal Street, were filled with workers protesting against budget cuts, at what was called the "Rally for New York", writes Jesse Lessinger, Socialist Alternative (CWI in the US). 19 March 2009 JUST WHAT planet does the media live on? Its coverage of the 25th anniversary of the miners' strike tried to say it was all about Arthur Scargill versus Margaret Thatcher, writes Dave Griffiths. 12 March 2009 A 44-DAY general strike by trade unions on the French Caribbean island of Guadeloupe has resulted in a victory for the workers... 5 March 2009 Interview with young worker in occupation The Committee for a Workers International protesting at the G8 summit 2005, photo Paul Mattsson 3 March 2009 As the world credit crunch and financial crisis spread to the real economy, government leaders gathered at a G-20 summit, last November, agreed not to raise barriers to trade and investment and not to go down the road of 'beggar thy neighbour' protectionism, writes Niall Mulholland. 25 February 2009 A MONTH long general strike and widespread political protest over the rising cost of living and low pay has gripped the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe and has now spread to the neighbouring island of Martinique... 18 February 2009 ON 30 January the board of Costa Rica's public Social Security Institute (INS) sacked Luis Salas Sarkís, general secretary of both the INS workers' union UPINS and the small, but combative and democratic union federation Central General de Trabajadores (CGT) of Costa Rica - in clear violation of I, writes Victor Leon (CWI, Costa Rica). 41 - 50 of 537 records Search entire database: | |||||||||||||
