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26 January 2011
50 years ago: Congo's independence leader assassinated
ON 17 January 1961, Patrice Lumumba, the democratically elected prime minister of the newly independent republic of Congo, was assassinated at the hands of Belgian officers and troops of president Moise Tshombe of the secessionist area of Katanga, writes Chris Newby.
Demonstrations in France against attacks on pension rights, photo Judy Beishon
15 December 2010
Europe: Working class enters the struggle
The tenth world congress of the socialist international to which the Socialist Party is affiliated, the Committee for a Workers' International (CWI), took place in Belgium between 1 and 9 December...
100,000 demonstrate in Brussels against European governments’ savage cuts, part of a European-wide day of action, called by the European Trade Union Confederation on 29 September 2010, photo Paul Mattsson
6 October 2010
Internationalism against austerity: 100,000 demonstrate in Belgium
HUNDREDS OF activists from across the British trade union movement travelled to Brussels to march against the Europe-wide cuts agenda, writes Nicholas Parker.
Joe Higgins MEP, Socialist Party Ireland, speaking at the European CWI school, photo Bob Severn
29 July 2009
Building support for world socialism
Committee for a Workers' International: The annual summer school of the Committee for a Workers' International (CWI) took place in Belgium during the week 12 to 17 July. Over 350 CWI members - many of them young people - came together from CWI sections worldwide to discuss the world economic crisis, the political situation in many countries, and workers' struggles across the globe.
3 December 2008
Crisis-hit capitalism fears prospect of revolution
CWI International Executive Committee 2008: THE INTERNATIONAL Executive Committee (IEC) of the Committee for a Workers' International (CWI) met in Belgium on 23-29 November. Hannah Sell gives a summary of Peter Taaffe's introduction to the session on the global economic crisis and its political consequences with highlights from the discussion.
23 April 2008
How can we defeat the far right?
The far-right, racist British National Party (BNP) is hoping to gain a seat on the Greater London Assembly on 1 May, as well as more councillors round the country. The Socialist outlines Socialist answers to the far-right.
14 November 2007
Belgium: Fighting attacks on education
As Socialist Students national organiser I spent a week working with Linkse Socialistiche Partij (LSP) / Mouvement pour une Alternative Socialiste (MAS), the Belgian section of the Committee for a Workers International (CWI),... By Matt Dobson
9 August 2007
Exchanging socialist ideas worldwide
THE COMMITTEE for a Workers' International (CWI) held its annual summer school in Belgium. The socialist gives here some excerpts of the reports given by its sister European sections.
22 February 2007
CWI world congress: How will new workers' parties be built?
CWI world congress report (3): ROGER BANNISTER Socialist Party visitor and national secretary of the Campaign for a New Workers' Party reports....
1 February 2007
CWI World Congress: Building the forces of socialism worldwide
The ninth world congress of the Committee for a Workers' International (CWI) took place in Belgium in mid-January...
12 October 2006
The media tend to depict students as lazy but, with the TUC reporting that 630,718 full-time students work in part-time jobs, the stereotype is a bit out of date, writes Sarah Sachs-Eldridge.
12 January 2006
Fighting for socialist ideas world wide
International Executive Committee report: The Socialist Party is affiliated to the Committee for a Workers' International (CWI) which organises in 36 countries on every continent...
1 December 2005
LSP/MAS mobilises against neo-fascists
LAST SATURDAY in Ghent, Belgium, over 700 people including the LSP/MAS (CWI, Belgium) and the anti-fascist youth organisation Blokbuster, marched to protest against the far-right Valaams Belang (formerly Vla...
3 November 2005
Belgium: massive resistance to pension cuts
THE BELGIAN establishment was shaken by the second trade union-organised national day of action in the course of three weeks...
7 July 2005
"We need to change the system"
ON SATURDAY 2 July about 250,000 demonstrated through the streets of Edinburgh to protest against the G8 summit and to call for an end to poverty...
11 December 2004
Belgium: Fighting the fascists in Gent
Fifteen hundred students and young people marched through the streets of Gent on the night of 3 December to counter the demonstration organised by NSV, the fascist student wing of Vlaams Belang, (the renamed Vlaams Blok)...
5 June 2004
Bosses Want Deregulation - Workers Need Organisation
SINCE THE Thatcher era it has been common for Britain's trade union leaders to uphold the European "social market" economy against the American deregulated economy, (abandoning any concept of socialism, even as an ideal, at the same time)...
7 December 2001
Building The Forces Of International Socialism
THE Executive Committee of the CWI (Committee for a Workers' International - the international socialist organisation to which the Socialist Party is affiliated) recently met in Belgium...
9 November 2001
THIS DECEMBER there will be a European Union (EU) summit taking place in Brussels, Belgium. Demonstrations and meetings have been planned around the summit to protest at the bosses' EU and the continuing...
13 October 2000
TWO WEEKS ago a student meeting in Gent of the Active Leftwing Students (ALS, a broad student organisation in which Militant Links - CWI Belgium - plays a leading role) was physically attacked by a group of fascists, writes Geert Cool, Militant Links, Belgium.
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