January 2003 | Socialist World Media

Iraq: No to war – Blood for oil

January 31, 2003 Roger Shrives

WHEN US Secretary of State Colin Powell was asked if the planned war with Iraq was all about oil, he denied it, claiming "the oil of Iraq belongs to the Iraqi people" and would not […]

Europe: Crisis for major euro economies

January 30, 2003 Per-Åke Westerlund, Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (CWI Sweden)

The run up to the Swedish referendum on the euro, 14 September, is coinciding with a crisis for the major economies within the currency union. This Spring can see a show down over the EMU’s […]

Israel: Sharon elected on historically low turn-out

January 29, 2003 Amnon Cohen, Maavak Sozialisti, Israel, 28 January 2003

Monday’s (27 January) general elections in Israel saw Ariel Sharon’s Likud party double its vote to 37 seats. The Labour Party (which is the traditional party of the Israeli capitalists) plunged to an all time […]

Scotland: No change to poverty under New Labour

January 29, 2003 Sinead Daly, Scotland, International Socialists (CWI Scotland)

It’s official. Six years of a New Labour government and four years of the Scottish Parliament has made little or no difference to the lives of millions of working class people in Scotland.

Netherlands: Dutch general elections – a lost opportunity for the Socialist Party

January 29, 2003 By Offensief members (Dutch section of the CWI), 29 January 2003

The Dutch general election results (22 January) were a bitter disappointment for many members and supporters of the Socialist Party, a broad Left party, which had been tipped to make a historic electoral breakthrough. Instead […]

Brazil: Lula addresses enormous crowds at World Social Forum

January 28, 2003 Marcus Kollbrunner, Port Alegre, 26 January 2003

"Ole, ole, ole, Lula… Lula… Lula", chanted a vast crowd that engulfed the Sunset Park in Porto Alegre on Friday afternoon, last week.

North Korea: US imperialism confronts Pyongyang

January 28, 2003 Laurence Coates, Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (CWI Sweden).

What does Kim Jong Il’s defiance mean for the Bush military doctrine? Can these events lead to yet another US military intervention? Offensiv takes a closer look at the Korean crisis.

Scotland: Big opportunities for socialists in May poll

January 27, 2003 Philip Stott

The second elections to the Scottish Parliament take place on May 1st 2003. May Day is the traditional day of celebration and commemoration for the international workers and socialist movement. But the first four years […]

cwi: 8th world congress – Globalisation and the world economy

January 26, 2003 Robin Clapp, Socialist Party, CWI in England and Wales

FOR MOST of the 1990s the capitalists believed that in globalisation and the neo-liberal economic model, they had discovered a new elixir of life for their system. Exaggerated claims were made that new technologies had […]

Europe: EU Enlargement after Copenhagen

January 25, 2003 Karl Debbaut, CWI, 24 January 2003

Last December’s negotiations between the existing EU members and the candidate countries for enlargement drew to a close at the Copenhagen summit. The 10 countries invited to join in May 2004 are Cyprus, the Czech […]