Month: April 2004

For a socialist alternative

THE LATEST attempt by the United Nations (UN) and European Union (EU) ministers to unify the divided island of Cyprus has ended in failure, amid bitter recriminations.

On 1 May ten countries will join the European Union after months of negotiations and a series of successful referendums. ‘New Europe’, as famously described by Donald Rumsfeld, has married ‘Old Europe’, but is this […]

Court decides electoral registration office ban was illegal

The women’s liberation movement of the 1960s and ’70s reached its peak when women won the right to choose an abortion and the Supreme Court legalized the procedure in the 1973 Roe v. Wade case. […]

A half-century of fascist rule was swept aside in a day.

Can we rely on the Democrats?

The jumbo circus of Indian elections with all its fanfare and trickery has come visiting once again.

AS SOON as Israeli Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, returned home from a triumphalist meeting with US President Bush, he turned his mind to the assassination of the newly appointed leader of the Islamic Palestinian organisation, […]

The fight for same-sex marriage rights

But lower poll indicates growing alienation

Electoral registration office bans Belgian cwi contesting elections

Only united working class can show way out of crisis

Unions urged to take up concerns of casual workers.

Brash plays the race card as Labour fails Maori and working class

Despite bureaucratic obstacles, lists handed in today.

Across Western Europe there is a debate on the left as to the best way to create or recreate new mass parties of the working class. The sharp move to the right of the social […]

“Bush’s Vietnam” conflict worsens

ANC has failed the masses – Time for a new party of the working class

Time for unions to break with government/bosses’ ‘social agreement’

Socialist Alternative plays key role in organising event

After a few days in Lagos I met Joseph, a socialist activist from Ghana, who, like me, had come to attend the conference of the Democratic Socialist Movement of Nigeria.

At the 2001 Labour Party conference Tony Blair set out his "moral commitment" to the world. He told the delegates that if Rwanda happened again today we would have a moral duty to act to […]

Will the truth come out?

An Epic Struggle

“Counter-terrorism” was one of the main issues at the EU summit in Brussels 25-26 March.

Peter Taaffe, General Secretary of the Socialist Party, and one of the founding members of the cwi, spoke to Tanja Niemeier.

United Socialist Party achieves record result

Huge anger against Schröder’s ‘Agenda 2010’ onslaught

Lessons of the California grocery workers strike

Military Families Speak Out against Bush’s war and lies

THE FIRST debate on Saturday was on the SSP’s draft manifesto for the European elections in June.

Prospect of new wave of workers’ struggles

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.

New opposition to SPD government offer big opportunities.

Women in occupied Iraq