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Turkey: “Warlike violence” to crush the movement

July 25, 2013Kai Stein

Kai Stein is a member of the Committee for a Workers’ International. New layer of workers, youth and poor has entered the scene with the promise: “This is just the beginning – the struggle continues” “Warlike violence” – that’s how ‘Taksim Solidarity’ the committee coordinating 127 groups in protest against Turkey’s prime minister Erdogan described […]

Workers and Socialist Party launch making waves within the combative SA working class

March 12, 2013Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI in South Africa)

The Marikana massacre, where police armed with automatic weapons opened fire and killed 34 striking miners, was a watershed in post-Apartheid South Africa. Echoing this, one headline covering the launch read “born in post-Marikana anger, Workers & Socialist Party enters SA politics”. The most significant feature of the 2012 mineworkers’ strikes was the organisation of […]