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  ARCHIVE | Xekinima was the CWI section in Greece until 2019

  Greece: Heading for the rocks

  February 12, 2003 Peter Taaffe, International Secretariat, Committee for a Workers’ International

  I have visited Greece many times in the past but this was my first visit for a long time, to attend the very successful congress of Xekinima, the Greek section of the Committee for a [...]

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  Israel / Palestine

  Israel: Likuds’ Pyrrhic victory

  February 11, 2003 Ma’avak Sozialisti, CWI, Israel.

  The final results of the Israeli elections are a clear victory for Prime Minister Sharon’s party, Likud, which won 38 seats, up from 21 in the outgoing Knesset (parliament) and double the number achieved by [...]

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  ARCHIVE | LSP/MAS was the CWI section in Belgium until 2019

  Belgium: Fight steel closures

  February 11, 2003 Guy Van Sinoy, Brussels

  The management of steel company Arcelor announced the closure of part of Cockerill Sambre in Liège by 2005. This would mean a loss of 2,500 jobs. Added to those jobs, there are about 5,000 jobs [...]

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  Austria

  Austria: No change at the top?

  February 10, 2003 Laura Rafetseder, London

  Following the breakdown of the coalition between the conservative People’s Party and Haider’s far right Freedom Party last September, Austria held new elections in November that resulted in gains for the conservatives and a disaster [...]

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  Iraq

  Iraq: No to war – Britain – Youth against the war

  February 9, 2003 Clare James - ISR national co-ordinator.

  EVERY DAY more and more young people are getting involved in the anti-war movement. International Socialist Resistance (ISR) and Socialist Party members and supporters have been helping organise school and college walkouts against the war [...]