India
India: General election – Reject them all!
The jumbo circus of Indian elections with all its fanfare and trickery has come visiting once again.
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Israel / Palestine
Israel/Palestine: Bush gives green light to Ariel Sharon
AS SOON as Israeli Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, returned home from a triumphalist meeting with US President Bush, he turned his mind to the assassination of the newly appointed leader of the Islamic Palestinian organisation, […]
South Africa
South African general election: ANC wins overwhelming majority
But lower poll indicates growing alienation
Macedonia
Macedonia: Presidential candidates are no choice for working people
Only united working class can show way out of crisis
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
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 […]
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’
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.