Robin Clapp, Socialist Party, CWI in England and Wales, Author at Socialist World Media

cwi: 8th world congress – Globalisation and the world economy

January 26, 2003 Robin Clapp, Socialist Party, CWI in England and Wales

FOR MOST of the 1990s the capitalists believed that in globalisation and the neo-liberal economic model, they had discovered a new elixir of life for their system. Exaggerated claims were made that new technologies had […]

Europe: EU Enlargement after Copenhagen

January 25, 2003 Karl Debbaut, CWI, 24 January 2003

Last December’s negotiations between the existing EU members and the candidate countries for enlargement drew to a close at the Copenhagen summit. The 10 countries invited to join in May 2004 are Cyprus, the Czech […]

Belgium: 10,000 demonstrate in Brussels

January 24, 2003 Geert Cool, Gent, 21 January 2003

On 19 January 10,000 people demonstrated in a national anti-war demonstration in Brussels. The collaboration of the Belgian government, by allowing US troops and military transports to use the Antwerp harbour, and the international aspect […]

Cyprus: Mass protests rocks ruling class

January 24, 2003 Dave Carr, from The Socialist.

ON 14 January an estimated 70,000 Turkish Cypriots – one-quarter of the northern Cypriot population – marched through divided Nicosia in support of a United Nations (UN) plan to re-unify the divided island.

Britain: Solid support for firefighters strike

January 23, 2003 From The Socialist, paper of the Socialist Party, CWI in England and Wales.

MATTHEW RICHARDSON from Lincoln reports how, led by a fire tender and carrying a coffin to symbolise the demise of the fire service, 200 firefighters and supporters marched through the centre of Lincoln.

Scotland: Fire service workers speak out

January 23, 2003 Ray Gunion, Motherwell, International Socialists (CWI Scotland).

In January the Scottish Executive attempted to put an amendment – the abolition of Section 19 – through parliament which would have made it easier to to close fire stations in Scotland. It would have […]

Brazil: World Social Forum – 100,000 expected at WSF

January 23, 2003 Interview by Marcus Kollbrunner, Port Alegre.

The World Social Forum is a meeting place for all kinds of organisations that fight against neo-liberalism, including environmentalists, trade unionists, and others who wants to go further and seek an alternative, "another world", according […]

Scotland: Left Labour MSP speaks against war

January 22, 2003 From International Socialist, paper of the CWI in Scotland

"It was the only genuinely anti-war amendment. Both the SNP and the Liberal-Democrat amendments would have given the sanction to the UN Security Council to go to war. The Security Council is dominated by the […]

Sweden: Biggest demo so far in Gothenburg

January 21, 2003 Kristofer Lundberg, Gothenburg, Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (CWI Sweden).

"Say hey, say ho, say George Bush has got to go". In the biggest demonstration so far in Sweden, 5-6 000 marched against the US war against Iraq in Gothenburg on 18 January.

US: Huge anti-war demo in Washington DC

January 21, 2003 Tom Crean, New York, Socialist Alternative (CWI’s affiliate in the US)

On 18 January, the growing anti-war movement in the US took another important step forward when a crowd estimated at over 200,000 braved the cold and marched on the Naval Yard in Washington DC. The […]