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US: Saddam – Made in the USA

February 3, 2003 Jeff Moore

How the Reagan/Bush Sr. administrations backed Saddam

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Australia: Anti-war message brought home to army

January 20, 2003 SP members, Melbourne.

Members and supporters of the Socialist Party (Australian section of the CWI) joined with the Victorian Peace Network to hold a protest outside the outside the Army Recruiting Office in Bourke St, Melbourne on 17 […]

Kenya: Massive election defeat for Arap Moi

January 15, 2003 Okoth Osewe. The article was first published in Offensiv 9 January 2003. Offensiv is the weekly paper of Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (CWI Sweden).

The December 27th General election in Kenya resulted in a massive defeat of the Kenya African National Union (KANU) and the rise to power of the National Rainbow Coalition (NARC) which brought together sixteen opposition […]

Sweden: The truth about the secret police and its surveillance of the CWI

January 10, 2003 By Per-Åke Westerlund.<br>This article was printed in Offensiv, weekly paper of Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (CWI Sweden) on 3 January 2003.

The so called ’Truth Commisson’ in Sweden investigating the state’s secret political registers has exposed the widespread use of secret police spying on communists, socialists and workers in struggle.

US: The Transit workers’ fight is our fight

January 4, 2003 CWI

With the city plunging into fiscal crisis and facing the threat of bankruptcy, budget and services cuts are announced on an almost daily basis.