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  Canada

  Canada: Universal health care under attack

  January 21, 2003 Robert Messing, Socialist Alternative, Toronto

  Canada’s 40-year old system of socialised medicine is under threat. Powerful private corporations have lobbied heavily for entry into what they see as an untapped, lucrative market. Ontario’s conservative government has been hungrily looking for [...]

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  ARCHIVE | the Socialist Party was the CWI section in Australia until 2019

  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 [...]

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  History & Anniversaries

  History: Suez 1956 – When British imperialism hit the rocks

  January 18, 2003 Dave Carr. From The Socialist, paper of the Socialist Party, CWI in Enland and Wales

  ON 5 November 1956 British and French paratroops occupied Egypt’s Port Said at the entrance to the Suez Canal.

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  Britain

  Britain: Building a mass anti-war movement

  January 17, 2003 Paula Mitchell, Socialist Party, CWI in Britain. From The Socialist, paper of the Socialist Party.

  "This movement today, not Tony Blair, is speaking for the British people," declared Aslef member Andrew Murray, opening the Stop the War national conference. 800 activists came from local coalitions, political parties, trade unions and [...]

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  Nigeria

  Nigeria: Radical opposition holds special congress

  January 16, 2003 DSM National Secretariat, Lagos

  A special congress of the Lagos State chapter of the National Conscience Party (NCP) was held in Lagos on Monday, 6 January 2003. The main purpose of the congress was to elect party candidates for [...]