Month: March 2004

Karaganda union activists persecuted for fighting on behalf of unpaid workers

Fighting for a fair slice of the pie

Socialist alternative needed to Lula’s neo-liberal policies

Can the Democratic Party be pulled to the left?

Why you should support Nader in 2004

Jeff: The campaign has leafleted the community and done outreach to co-workers. We leafleted at a HUCTW rally and intervened with a No Layoffs banner and leaflets at a speech by Larry Summers, the president […]

Более недели иностранные студенты Воронежа не выходили на занятия, требуя от городской администрации принятия мер по защите людей с иным цветом кожи. Такое решение было принято на массовом митинге, прошедшем во вторник, 24 февраля, перед […]

TWO PREVIOUS attempts by Venezuela’s right-wing opposition to overthrow the twice elected radical national government of President Hugo Chávez have failed.

Ethnic tensions boiled over again in Kosovo mid-March, leading to the worst levels of violence since the UN/Nato imposed control of the country in 1999.

On March the 15th a Viennese court made a final ruling in a court case that extreme anti-abortionists have run against Claudia Sorger, the spokesperson for women’s affairs of the Socialist Left Party (SLP), the […]

Вот уже полтора года в заключении находятся лидер Рабочего Движения Казахстана «Солидарность» Сакен Жунусов и его сын член ЦК Молодой Гвардии Казахстана Рустем Жунусов.

Cries of "stolen election", 337,000 spoiled ballots, a double assassination attempt and riots in the streets… Taiwan’s presidential election had it all!

Last Sunday, France went to the ballot box for regional and district elections.

In crisis but still a threat to workers

Reports from around the world part 2. pictures

Working people of the region will pay the price

The brutal assassination of the spiritual leader of Palestinian Islamic organisation Hamas, Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, was met with outrage from Palestinians, together with people throughout the Arab world and millions internationally who are horrified at […]

Para nadie en Chile es un misterio que los trabajadores hoy no cuentan con un partido que realmente los represente. Históricamente este rol lo jugaba el Partido Socialista y el Partido Comunista, que claramente se […]

Западные наблюдатели конечно уже заметили «некоторые» нарушения. Но их интересуют лишь теоретическая социология и инвестиции, они не могут и не хотят увидеть всю историю. Избирательная борьба шла не между кандидатами, но за повышение явки; за […]

La suspensión de la visita del dirigente Evo Morales meses atrás a Chile revelo entre otras cosas como es la casta política dominante de este país; chovinista, racista y prepotente.

Iraq one year on.

Reports from around the world part 1

“Your war – our dead”, “Aznar, your delusions of grandeur have led to this” chanted crowds on the streets of Spain last weekend, as the mass outpouring of grief and rage at the Thursday’s horrendous […]

The fight for political survival of the government party, the Democratic Left Alliance (SLD), has entered a new phase as the party’s leadership demands the resignation of Prime Minister Leszek Miller.

Today, one year on from the US imperialist led war on Iraq, anti-war demos and protests are being held throughout India, Pakistan and across the dividing Line of Control (LoC) in Kashmir by various workers […]

Is it possible and what will follow?

France goes to the polls next Sunday, 21 March, for elections in the regions and districts (‘departements’ that are divided into ‘cantonments’).

March 20th marks the first anniversary of the US led imperialist war on Iraq.

“The wars are yours – the deaths are ours,” read one placard on a demonstration in Madrid in the early hours, last Sunday morning. It summed up the mood of millions throughout Spain just days […]

Bush attacks women’s right to choose

The right wing New Democracy (ND) party won last week’s general elections in Greece, defeating the ruling social democratic PASOK party. However, this does not represent a defeat of ‘socialism’ as much of the international […]

The NSV, the students’ organisation of Belgian’s biggest fascist party, the Vlaams Blok, organises a yearly demo in one of the cities in Flanders where a university is present. This year they chose to march […]

Having last visited Pakistan five years ago, the social, economic and political changes in the country were thrown into sharp relief. The changes, although not immediately apparent, are stark. These developments, I believe, make possibilities […]

Thousands of people across the dividing Line of Control (LoC) between Indian and Pakistani Occupied Kashmir commemorated the 20th anniversary of the execution of Maqbool Butt, a radical nationalist leader, by the Indian authorities.

Last Friday saw up to 4,000 defiant nursery nurses, parents and supporters demonstrating on the streets of Glasgow for a decent pay deal. The protest marked the fifth day of indefinite strike action by Scotland’s […]

Solidarity appeal for striking transit workers in the Twin Cities, Minnesota, March 8, 2004

Die Grÿnen, Les Verts, the Green Party – the German, French and UK Green Parties, along with 29 other European Green parties, are now one party standing on one platform.

THE 21ST Century belongs to women. That’s what many pundits were saying in the run up to the year 2000. Much is made of the fact that there are marginally more women at work now […]

Will the banning of headscarves contribute to the emancipation of women?

Sham presidential elections will increase presidential authoritarianism

After eight months of industrial action by Scotland’s nursery nurses, and with no end in sight, UNISON are preparing to ballot to increase the action to an all out indefinite strike from March.

It’s time to break from the two-party system!

The day of international working women’s solidarity – 8 March – is celebrated this year just days before the first anniversary of imperialism’s attack on Iraq.

Eurozone leaders attending the recent G7 summit of finance ministers from the richest capitalist nations let out a howl of impotent anguish. The statement issued after their meeting (7/8 February) at Boca Raton, Florida, deplored […]

The government of Luis Inácio Lula da Silva, or Lula, leader of the Workers’ Party (PT) is now in its most critical period since taking office in January 2003.

The president of Haiti, Jean Bertrand Aristide, the former “radical slum priest”, fled the country on 29 February, under pressure from the Bush administration and the threat of armed rebels.