New Zealand
New Zealand/Aotearoa: Opposition National party leads polls against Labour government
Brash plays the race card as Labour fails Maori and working class
Articles by Tim Bowron, Socialist Alternative, Dunedin
Belgium
Belgium: LSP/MAS (cwi in Belgium) to stand in Euro elections for the first time
Despite bureaucratic obstacles, lists handed in today.
Ireland North
Northern Ireland: building a socialist alternative
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 […]
History & Anniversaries
socialist history: Bayard Rustin and the Civil Rights Movement
Capitalist system the root cause of racism
Iraq
Iraq: “Multiple insurrections” are a turning point
“Bush’s Vietnam” conflict worsens
South Africa
South Africa: Thabo Mbeki set to win election
ANC has failed the masses – Time for a new party of the working class
Netherlands
Netherlands: 15,000 demonstrate expulsion of refugees
Time for unions to break with government/bosses’ ‘social agreement’
USA
US: elections – Ralph Nader Seattle rally a big success
Socialist Alternative plays key role in organising event
Nigeria
Nigeria: A country in crisis
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.
Rwanda
Rwanda’s killing fields: A legacy of imperialism
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 […]