Oppose Wilders and the ‘mainstream’ right – Build a mass workers’ party that struggles for socialism. The most important feature of the national elections in the Netherlands is the colossal defeat for the outgoing austerity […]
Only a choice between the “regular” and far-right? Dutch voters go to the polls on on 15 March, with a record 28 parties on the ballot paper. Nearly half the parties have only been in […]
Right populist Geert Wilders promises: “Our turn is next”
Main parties guarantee austerity – A mass party of the Left with a socialist programme needed
Vote for SP can be the basis for a mass struggle against cuts
Dutch people want a real alternative to austerity
As austerity shock-effects wear off, workers’ opposition will grow
15% of Dutch population faces poverty conditions
New coalition government promises austerity politics – Workers’ will resist!
Socialist Party reneging on retirement disappoints workers
Socialist policies needed to oppose austerity and to win majority support!
Working class faces battle against cuts
Workers need a party with anti-cuts, socialist policies not coalitions with capitalist parties!
Big industrial and social conflicts ahead!
Pro-establishment parties plan huge cuts programme after new elections
Cuts-making coalition government under strain, as elections loom
Good response to CWI paper and leaflets in Rotterdam and Amsterdam.
’Committee for Democratisation of the SP’ gains support
Independent, working class policies needed to build on successes
Dutch Socialist Party must fight November elections on socialist policies
Dutch Socialist Party must fight November elections on socialist policies
Party Branch promises to double the amount raised by the members
The clear class “NO” vote expressed increasing anger with one of the most unpopular governments in the whole of Europe. It is likely that new struggles will unfold in the autumn
Voters ignore arrogant Establishment and punish right wing government
US President hears demands for an end to Iraqi occupation
More than 40 students from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam assembled on 16 November on campus to show their anger against the current spate of racist attacks and the posting of inflammatory anti-Muslim posters on campus […]
"In this week’s BN-De Stem [newspaper] there was an article about a new phenomenon in Breda: the soup kitchen.
Let’s mobilise for 2 October mass demonstration!
The beginning of a hot autumn
Rotterdam campaign receives far right and police attention
National meeting of workers called to plan actions against cuts
Time for unions to break with government/bosses’ ‘social agreement’
The Dutch right wing coalition government plans to soon start deporting “failed asylum-seekers”. But protests are springing up across the Netherlands, and a national demonstration is set for 10 April.
Building the cwi in 2003 in Netherlands and New Zealand/Aotearoa
A community struggle, spearheaded by members of Offensief (Dutch CWI), successfully prevented council plans to close the Ganzenhoef community centre in South East Amsterdam.
On Sunday 30 November, hundreds demonstrated in Maastricht against the visit of US Secretary of State Colin Powell, who is in the Dutch town for the summit of the OSCE (Organisation for Security and Co-operation […]
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Following a year of political turmoil, the latest attempt to form a stable coalition government in the Netherlands has fallen apart. Alienation from the main establishment parties is marked. At the same time, the Dutch […]
120,000 people took to the streets of In Amsterdam on Saturday 23 march.
70,000 people turned up at the Amsterdam demonstration against the war, called by the Platform Against the New War. This is a coalition of two hundred small, and some big, organisations. It includes the Socialist […]
The Dutch general election results (22 January) were a bitter disappointment for many members and supporters of the Socialist Party, a broad Left party, which had been tipped to make a historic electoral breakthrough. Instead […]
As anticipated, the Dutch government consisting of the Christian Democrats, the CDA, the liberal VVD and the hard right LPF (List Pim Fortuyn, whose leader was shot dead last May), collapsed on the 16 October. […]
Around 1,000 people gathered on 17 September at The Hague in the Netherlands to protest against the plans by the new coalition government (which includes the populist right wing Pim Fortuyn List) and to also […]
Months after the Dutch general elections, which saw dramatic gains for the populist right wing Lijst Pim Fortuyn (LPF), a new coalition government has finally been formed. The administration’s proposed policies are clearly to the […]
THE RECENT Dutch elections were nothing short of an earthquake, expressing frustration and disappointment with the Dutch Labour Party (PvdA). The winners were the Christian Democratic Party, which was in government from 1918-94 (longer than […]
It is clear that the liberal/social-democrat Purple government has been severely punished. The government parties lost in total 44 seats in the 150 seat parliament.
The extreme right Dutch politician, Pim Fortuyn, was shot dead 6 May, on the premises of the national radio station in Hilversum. This single act has shaken Dutch society, including the complacent Dutch establishment who […]
As was expected, the purple government has just fallen (16/04/02) over the report about ’Dutchbat’, the Dutch army unit, and its operations in Srebrenica in 1997.
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