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David Johnson, Socialist Party (CWI England and Wales) Posted 7th February 2012
 The mostly young and working class football fans killed in the 1 February massacre played a crucial role during the Tahrir Square uprising. Parts of the old regime seem, through this massacre, to be trying to take revenge. Also in this way, the SCAF (Supreme Council of the Armed Forces) tries to use the fear of chaos to justify its role. But new demonstrations are developing.
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By Robert Bechert, CWI Posted 26th August 2011
No to foreign military intervention · Libyan workers, youth and poor must act independently of imperialism
 After six long months of bloody, protracted struggle the overthrow of the dictatorial Gaddafi regime was greeted with rejoicing by large numbers of, but by no means all, Libyans. Another autocratic ruler, surrounded by his privileged family and cronies, has been overthrown.
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Article by Robert Bechert, Committee for a Workers’ International www.socialistworld.net The UN Security Council’s majority decision to impose a “no-fly zone”, while greeted with joy on the streets of Benghazi and Tobruk, was in no way intended to defend the Libyan revolution. The air strikes’ mounting civilian toll is leading to growing questioning of these attacks that is leading to pressure on governments, like South Africa, that originally supported, or abstained on, the UN decision, to distance themselves from what is taking place. |
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5,000 sacked miners on strike in South Africa
by Steve Jolly, Socialist Party (CWI in Australia)
 On Saturday June 26 I travelled with comrades from South Africa’s Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM) to a mass meeting they had called in Rustenburg, about two hours north west of Johannesburg. The DSM is the Socialist Party’s sister party in South Africa.
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cialist Party Scotland and the CWI
