Taiwan: Occupation of parliament ends after 23 days

Interview with Sally Tang Mei-ching, CWI participant in Taipei protests. What are the lessons of the island’s ‘sunflower movement’? Taiwan has witnessed an unprecedented mass protest movement since 18 March when around 200 students occupied the main chamber of the Legislative Yuan (parliament) to stop the ratification of the contentious Cross Strait Service Trade Agreement […]

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Tunisia: “Mass struggle constrained by Popular Front and UGTT leaderships”

Interview with Hidouri Abdessalem, member of the regional UGTT office for secondary education, Sidi Bouzid from CWI Tunisia. The talks held between the government and the opposition parties, called the ‘initiative for a national dialogue’, were suspended on Monday 4 November. In short, this ‘initiative for a national dialogue’ is nothing but an attempt by […]

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