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Australia: Brilliant election result for Australian CWI members

September 9, 1999 CWI online

The Australian section of the CWI, Militant Socialist Organisation (MSO), won 12.25% of the vote in the Richmond Constituency (Melbourne), as part of the Victoria State-wide elections. Today’s results show that 28,263 people voted in […]

Nigeria: Student activist murdered

July 14, 1999 Rotimi Ewebiyi DSM National, Secretariat, Lagos, Nigeria 14th July,1999

At around 4.30 a.m. on Saturday, 10th July, an armed gang made up of members of pro-authority secret cults drawn from several tertiary institutions invaded the campus of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State, on […]

Indonesia: Elections – First in 40 years

June 9, 1999 Kerry Morgan - Committee for a Workers’ International, 9 June 1999

Election day in Indonesia – the first for 40 years in which parties could freely contend – had the atmosphere of a celebration. Coming one year after the overthrow of the Suharto dictatorship by a […]

Kosova: End repressioin, for a workers a solution

June 6, 1999 CWI statement

The recent roots of the bloody break-up of the former Yugoslavia lies in the deepening crisis it faced in the 1980s. Throughout the 1980s its economic situation worsened. By 1987 inflation was running at over […]

Nigeria: The grand frame-up – My Story

May 18, 1999 Lanre Arogundade, Lagos, 18th May, 1999.

It is now common knowledge that I spent twenty agonising days in undue incarceration at the state police Criminal Investigation Department (CID), Iyaganku, Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria, courtesy of a totally false petition written by […]

Nigeria: CWI section under serious attack

May 11, 1999 Clare Doyle, CWI Campaigns

The CWI section in Nigeria – the Democratic Socialist Movement – Under Serious Attack.

Women: International Women’s day – Index

May 3, 1999

Included here are ten articles commissioned by the Committee for a Workers’ International for use on and around March 8th – International Women’s Day. They have been circulated to the sections and groups of of […]

May Day: A day of struggle, solidarity and socialism

April 16, 1999 CWI statement

THE CWI, the Committee for a Workers’ International, an international socialist organisation with affiliates and co-workers in 35 countries on all five continents, sends it warmest May Day greetings to the working people of all […]

Kosova: Oppose NATA bombings

March 27, 1999 Committee for a Workers’ International statement

The massive NATO attack on Serbia has hugely exacerbated the crisis in the Balkans and threatens to widen the conflict further, with terrible repercussions. Already there has been Serb shelling of Albania and pro-Serb riots […]

Women: International Women’s day – CIS

March 3, 1999 Anna Shvedova, CWI-CIS

The 8th of March is a very significant date in fighting for a socialist future. This is the day of international solidarity of working women in the struggle for their economic, social and political rights.