 Millions of Venezuelan workers, the poor and youth will mourn the death of Venezuelan president, Hugo Chavez
 The capitalist “vampire squid” and the class struggle in Europe
 Gaddafi Dead - What now? - Independent action by Libyan workers, youth and poor vital to prevent revolution’s derailment
 After Gaddafi - Stop the revolution’s derailment - independent workers’ action needed!
 Gaddafi regime crumbles - No to foreign military intervention Libyan workers, youth and poor must act independently of imperialism
World Economic Crisis
 Eight months after the overthrow of Mubarak, workers and youth still face poverty, unemployment & corruption
 Capitalist strategists are filled with gloom at the prospect of a new economic downturn
 Trying to control an anarchic and blind system, none of the measures taken stem the downward spiral
 Global economy shaking - US recovery strangled and European debt crisis deepening
Egypt
 21/11/2011: Defend the revolution! For mass struggle to overthrow army rule!
 21/02/2011: Class confrontations are challenging the regime and the whole system.
 09/02/2011: Vital to build a mass party to realise aims of workers and small farmers.
 03/02/2011: Eyewitness report from Cairo’s Tahrir Square.
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November 26, 2013
US
Victory for socialist in Seattle!
www.socialistworld.net (Originally published on November 19, 2013)
website of the committee for a workers' international, CWI
“Earth-shattering consequences” in the US and internationally
An interview with Kshama Sawant. Sarah Wrack, from The Socialist (weekly newspaper of the Socialist Party, England & Wales)
 The evening of 15 November will go down as marking an historic step in re-building a socialist movement in the US, the world’s leading capitalist nation. Kshama Sawant, candidate of Socialist Alternative (co-thinkers of the CWI in the US), was poised to win a seat on the Seattle City Council after her opponent conceded the race. This is the first time in many decades that a Socialist in the US won an election by defeating the Democrats, a party that pretends to be pro-labour. Further counts continued to show Kshama’s lead increasing in this city wide vote. As of November 18 Kshama stands on 93,168 votes. She spoke to Sarah Wrack about the campaign.
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November 12, 2013
Media Release
CHOGM Is Not Where People's Issues Can Be Solved
The Commonwealth Heads of Governments Meeting (CHOGM) taking place in Colombo from 10 to 17 November will in no way benefit the working people in Sri Lanka or workers and poor in the other 53 member countries, the majority of whom remain poor. In fact the opposite is true. CHOGM is, in reality, a ‘business club’ led by the British government largely to safeguard British big business’s interests in the former colonies.
This year the Commonwealth established a formal Charter setting out its core values: they include democracy; human rights; peace and security; tolerance; freedom of expression; and many other commendable aims.
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October 13, 2013
13th Congress of the United Socialist Party
By Lankasocialist Correspondent
The United Socialist Party (USP) is holding its 13th national delegate congress on the 19th and 20th of October at the Public Library auditorium in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
Four years have passed since the so called ‘end of war,’ but the socio economic and political crisis in the country is much more aggravated and the present coalition government is totally incapable of solving it. This congress is taking place in this juncture and will discuss how to rebuild the left movement which bases itself on the working class.
The political resolution prepared by the central committee outlines the need for fighting against neo-liberal policies, chauvinism and capitalist coalition politics, and puts emphasis on building a left alternative. All these will be discussed and action plans will be agreed upon.
Delegates of the Committee for a Workers’ International from India, Australia, and England will also be attending this congress.
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October 02, 2013
NPC election
There is something in the air in the North of Sri Lanka
First Published in Colombo Telegraph
There is something in the air in the North of Sri Lanka. ‘It’s a ghost of the past,’ shouted the media in the south. The northern media, however, was relentless in creating the ghost of a new future.
 The North had not seen an election of this kind for decades. In the first and only Northern Province Council (NPC) election, held in 1988, a dismal number of people turned out to vote – so embarrassing that the number of votes were not even widely published!
Then the Eelam People’s Revolutionary Liberation Front (EPRLF) in control of the north, with the Indian army, won all seats. Contrast that to the second NPC election 25 years later. On a 68% turnout 78.48% of the votes went to the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) under the party name of Ilankai Tamil Arasu Kadchi (ITAK). The TNA won 30 out of the 38 contested seats.
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