10th Committee for a Workers International World Congress 2010 Documents now online
- Building the socialist movement around the world
- World Relations
- Europe
- Asia
- Middle East
- Latin America
- Eastern Europe and the CIS (former Soviet States)
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Peace activists murdered by reactionary Israeli army
Build a mass movement to break the sanctions on Gaza!
The following is the translated text of a leaflet (in Arabic) that is being distributed in Beirut today by supporters of the CWI in Lebanon during a mass protest against the massacre of peace activists by the IDF last weekend.
The Committee for a Workers International (CWI) in Lebanon, and internationally, offers sincerest condolences to family and friends of the activists murdered by the reactionary Israeli army while on a humanitarian aid mission. We salute the courage of all those activists, who organized this aid intervention, and we demand a safe passage through to Gaza for the 750 people from 40 different countries intent on breaking the Israeli-Egyptian blockade.
Socialist Party MEP condemns slaughter of peace activists by Israeli Defence Force
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Southern Government’s new gas field giveaways
At a time when the government continues to implement savage cuts on working people on the one hand it is still in the process of giving away billions of euro worth of our natural gas to private interests. Two onshore gas fields are next to being a gift. One in Clare and one in the North West. The closing date for the licence applications is 11 June.