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Kazakhstan: Workers’ leaders jailed

January 21, 2003 Rob Jones, Moscow, 21 January 2003

On the 20 February, Saken Zhanusov and Rustem Zhanusov were sentenced to 3 years in Kazakhstan’s notorious prisons. Their comrade Ramil Mingazov, for reasons of health, was ordered to pay a large fine.

Australia: Anti-war message brought home to army

January 20, 2003 SP members, Melbourne.

Members and supporters of the Socialist Party (Australian section of the CWI) joined with the Victorian Peace Network to hold a protest outside the outside the Army Recruiting Office in Bourke St, Melbourne on 17 […]

History: Suez 1956 – When British imperialism hit the rocks

January 18, 2003 Dave Carr. From The Socialist, paper of the Socialist Party, CWI in Enland and Wales

ON 5 November 1956 British and French paratroops occupied Egypt’s Port Said at the entrance to the Suez Canal.

Britain: Building a mass anti-war movement

January 17, 2003 Paula Mitchell, Socialist Party, CWI in Britain. From The Socialist, paper of the Socialist Party.

"This movement today, not Tony Blair, is speaking for the British people," declared Aslef member Andrew Murray, opening the Stop the War national conference. 800 activists came from local coalitions, political parties, trade unions and […]

Nigeria: Radical opposition holds special congress

January 16, 2003 DSM National Secretariat, Lagos

A special congress of the Lagos State chapter of the National Conscience Party (NCP) was held in Lagos on Monday, 6 January 2003. The main purpose of the congress was to elect party candidates for […]

New Zealand: CWI campaigns against the war

January 16, 2003 Article and photo from the Otago Daily Times, New Zealand.

CWI group campaigns against war.

Kenya: Massive election defeat for Arap Moi

January 15, 2003 Okoth Osewe. The article was first published in Offensiv 9 January 2003. Offensiv is the weekly paper of Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (CWI Sweden).

The December 27th General election in Kenya resulted in a massive defeat of the Kenya African National Union (KANU) and the rise to power of the National Rainbow Coalition (NARC) which brought together sixteen opposition […]

Iraq: US hawks plan “pre-emptive” strike

January 15, 2003 Peter Taaffe

In the light of Hans Blix and the weapons inspectors’ report that there is no "smoking gun", conclusive evidence of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) in Iraq, the prospect of an immediate war against Iraq […]

Iraq: “Likely humanitarian scenarios” – The devastating consequences of a war

January 14, 2003 By Karl Debbaut, London, 13 January 2003

A document made public last Tuesday by a British student group ’Campaign against Sanctions on Iraq’ revealed that as many as 500,000 people in Iraq could suffer injuries and require medical treatment if the United […]

Nigeria: Support sacked worker activist

January 13, 2003 Olamide Olatunji and Ojo Olajire, Lagos.

The Steel and Engineering Workers’ Union of Nigeria (SEWUN) picketed the Nexans’ Kabelmetal factory in Lagos on Friday 10 January 2003 to demand the reinstatement of Rufus Olusesan, a member of the Democratic Socialist Movement, […]