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Month: September 2004

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ARCHIVE | the Socialist Party was the CWI section in Northern Ireland until 2019

Northern Ireland: As politicians restart talks

30 September 2004 Ciaran Mulholland, Socialist Party, Ireland

Sectarian divisions deepen

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Germany

Germany: Victory for Socialist Alternative!

28 September 2004 Tanja Niemeier

Socialist Alternative, the German section of the cwi, scored a great victory in Sunday’s local elections in North Rhine Westphalia, winning two more councillors after initiating and heading two left electoral lists against social cuts […]

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ARCHIVE | Netherlands

Netherlands: After Rotterdam, Amsterdam strikes

28 September 2004 Ron Blom, ABVA-KABO-lid (public sector union), and Offensief (cwi Netherlands)

Let’s mobilise for 2 October mass demonstration!

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ARCHIVE | Socialist Alternative was the CWI section in Russia and the CIS until 2019

Russia: After Beslan Putin clamps down but provokes more opposition

28 September 2004 Rob Jones, a member of Socialist Resistance (cwi) in Moscow

Even before the final toll from the school siege in Russia is known, it is clear that over 335 have died. Although nearly 100 of the dead have not been identified, there are nearly 200 […]

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ARCHIVE | Socialist Alternative was the CWI section in the USA until 2019

US: Democracy for Sale

27 September 2004 Bryan Koulouris, Socialist Alternative, US

How big business runs Washington D.C.

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Britain

Britain: Jaguar crisis

26 September 2004 article

Workers say -’we won’t pay the price’

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Britain

Britain: Uniting to fight New Labour’s cuts

25 September 2004 article

Interview with general secretary of civil service union

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Nigeria

Nigeria: Anti-union court decision leads to new hike in fuel prices

24 September 2004 Tanja Niemeier

Nigeria has recently seen a brutal example of the link between anti-trade union court rulings and an onslaught on living standards.

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ARCHIVE | Socialist Alternative was the CWI section in the USA until 2019

US: What’s next for the Nader campaign?

24 September 2004 Canyon Lalama, Nader Campaign Activist at the University of Minnesota

An independent anti-war, anti-corporate party is needed

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Iraq

Iraq: Tony Blair declares a “new war”

23 September 2004 Editorial

"This is far graver than Vietnam. If we leave and there’s no civil war, that’s a victory." William Odon, former head of the US national security agency, is more in touch with the reality of […]

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ARCHIVE | Socialist Alternative was the CWI section in the USA until 2019

US: Presidential elections

23 September 2004 Tom Crean, Socialist Alternative, US

Choosing between two evils

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South Africa

South Africa: Cosatu calls for two-day stay away

22 September 2004 Weizmann Hamilton

After biggest ever public sector strike

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ARCHIVE | Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna was the CWI section in Sweden until 2019

Sweden: German election results encourage fascists

22 September 2004 Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (cwi Sweden)

Neo-liberal and anti-refugee policies feed reaction

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ARCHIVE | the Socialist Party was the CWI section in Australia until 2019

Australia: Federal elections – a ‘choice’ of Tweedledum or Tweedledee

21 September 2004 John Gowland, Socialist Party, Australia

Workers need a socialist alternative

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ARCHIVE | Netherlands

Netherlands: Strike shuts down world’s biggest port

21 September 2004 Ron Blom, ABVA-KABO (public sector union) and Offensief (cwi Netherlands)

The beginning of a hot autumn

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ARCHIVE | Socialist Alternative was the CWI section in the USA until 2019

US: Nader’s Challenge to the corrupt two party system

21 September 2004 Philip Locker

Ralph Nader’s hard-hitting critique of corporate power and the two-party system is striking a chord with millions of workers and young people.

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Britain

Britain: Wembley stadium workers score major victory

20 September 2004 Ken Smith

Locked-out workers "completely win everything they had stood out for"

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ARCHIVE | Socialist Alternative was the CWI section in the USA until 2019

US: Soldier’s relative speaks out

20 September 2004 Socialist Voice, Ireland

Campaigns against the occupation of Iraq and anti war demonstrations have been spearheaded by the families of military personnel. Socialist Voice spoke to one such family member currently working in Ireland, Wayne Scott Feller, whose […]

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ARCHIVE | LSP/MAS was the CWI section in Belgium until 2019

Belgium: A “new course” for the Vlaams Blok?

19 September 2004 Geert Cool, LSP-MAS, Belgium

Is the Vlaams Blok trying to change itself into a more "mainstream" rightwing party?

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ARCHIVE | Socialist Alternative was the CWI section in the USA until 2019

US: The fraud of American democracy

19 September 2004 John Gallup

Politicians, the media, and our education system continually tell us the U.S. is the epitome of a free and democratic nation, that we have the "greatest democracy in the world."

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Kashmir

Kashmir: Health workers gear-up for elections after seven years!

18 September 2004 cwi supporter, Kotli, POK

"Workers Unity" candidates stand for a fighting, democratic union

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ARCHIVE | ChinaWorker.info was the CWI section in China, Honk Kong and Taiwan until 2019

Announcement: CWI members launch new China website

16 September 2004 Laurence Coates, Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna, Sweden

Defence campaign for imprisoned metalworkers in Liaoyang

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ARCHIVE | ChinaWorker.info was the CWI section in China, Honk Kong and Taiwan until 2019

China:: Free the Liaoyang Two

16 September 2004 chinaworker.org

Yao Fuxin and Xiao Yunliang imprisoned for defending workers’ rights

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Nigeria

Nigeria: Trade unions face legal onslaught

16 September 2004 Robert Bechert

Unions must defend rights

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Britain

Britain: Behind New Labour’s power struggle

15 September 2004 Peter Taaffe

Economic storms and class battles on the agenda

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Germany

Germany: Anger mounts against cuts

15 September 2004 Robert Bechert

Protests continue

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ARCHIVE | Socialist Alternative was the CWI section in the USA until 2019

US: The million worker march

13 September 2004 Alan Jones Shop Steward IUOE

Coming soon to Washington DC

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ARCHIVE | Socialist Alternative was the CWI section in the USA until 2019

US: The war on Nader

12 September 2004 Ted Virdone

The Democrats’ dirty tricks

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ARCHIVE | Socialist Alternative was the CWI section in the USA until 2019

US: John Kerry – the other pro-war candidate

11 September 2004 Dan DiMaggio

Bush’s brutal war in Iraq is shaping up to be the central issue in the 2004 presidential election.

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ARCHIVE | Socialist Alternative was the CWI section in the USA until 2019

US: Anybody But Bush?

10 September 2004 Ramy Khalil, Socialist Alternative, US

The case for Nader in 2004

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ARCHIVE | Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna was the CWI section in Sweden until 2019

Sweden: 700 in school protest against cuts

9 September 2004 Lina Thörnblom, Sweden

Big pressure has been put on politicians in a Swedish council area to reverse their retrograde policy of charging for school meals.

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Iran

Iran: Solidarity appeal

8 September 2004 socialistworld.net

Stop the execution of Ismail Mohammadi – urgent protest needed

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Russia

Russia: The horror of Beslan and Chechnya

8 September 2004 Lynn Walsh

The horrific massacre of children, parents and teachers at High School No1 in Beslan, North Ossetia, reached a new level of barbarity.

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Russia

Russia: Socialists condemn terrorism and Russian military repression

8 September 2004 Editorial

THE HOSTAGE takers who seized 1,200 children, parents and teachers in Beslan reached a new level of barbarism.

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Russia

Russia: Beslan – Anger and revulsion at huge loss of life

7 September 2004 Niall Mulholland

Anger and revulsion at huge loss of life

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Sudan

Sudan: Ethnic cleansing in Darfur

7 September 2004 Kevin Simpson

Once again, our TV screens are filled with images of destitute African villagers, emaciated with starvation, their faces contorted with grief and terror.

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Russia

Russia: Bloodbath in Beslan

6 September 2004 CWI

The bloody end to the school hostage crisis in Beslan, North Ossetia, angered, sickened and shocked people around the world.

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Germany

Germany: Majority support for socialism

3 September 2004 Robert Bechert

Today 79% of east Germans and 51% of west Germans think that Socialism is a "good idea" that was "only badly implemented" in the former Soviet Union and eastern Europe. That is the judgement after […]

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Iraq

Iraq: US imperialism weakened further

3 September 2004 article

The dreams of the US right-wing ’neo-cons’ lie in tatters on the battlefields of Iraq. One of the only certainties in the turmoil of Iraq is that imperialism’s occupation is doomed to failure.

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Russia

North Ossetia: School siege is latest horror of Chechen conflict

3 September 2004 Niall Mulholland

Putin fails to bring ‘peace and security’ to Chechens or Russians

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ARCHIVE | Socialist Alternative was the CWI section in the USA until 2019

US: Protesting the Republicans in New York.

1 September 2004 Bryan Koulouris, Socialist Alternative, New York City, 30 August 2004.

The Republican National Convention has invaded New York City.

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