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Scotland: Socialist success in Scotland

May 17, 2003 Philip Stott, International Socialists, CWI Scotland

WITH 17 SOCIALIST, Green, health campaigners and left independents elected to the Scottish parliament the political establishment was rocked by the results of the recent Scottish elections.

Britain: Time to make the break

May 16, 2003 Editorial from The Socialist, paper of the Socialist Party, CWI in England and Wales.

CLARE SHORT left Blair’s cabinet with a bang. Her resignation speech contained a withering attack on the "control freakery" of the Blairite "clique" at the top of the party and Blair’s "presidential" rule by "diktat". […]

Austria: Mass protests oppose pension cuts

May 15, 2003 Sonja Grusch, Sozialistiche LinksPartei, Vienna

On 13 May, in the late afternoon, 200,000 people (according to the ÖGB, the Austrian trade union federation) marched through the streets of Vienna against the government’s pension ‘reforms’ (the police said "over 100,000" participated).

Kazakhstan: Mothers’ social rights protest attacked by police

May 15, 2003 Ainur Kurmanov, President of the Workers’ Movement of Kazakhstan

A peaceful protest by several hundred women in Kentau City, southern Kazakhstan, fighting on social issues and against police repression, was brutally attacked and broken up by police, and many of the protesters were arrested. […]

Israel: The new Russian refuseniks

May 13, 2003 By Lily Galili

Some of them are Marxists, and some are simply opposed to the occupation. Whatever the reason, the army doesn’t know how to handle the new phenomenon of young immigrants who refuse to be drafted into […]

Sweden: Council workersâ€™ strike gathers momentum

May 13, 2003 Per-Ã…ke Westerlund, RÃ¤ttvisepartiet Socialisterna (CWI Sweden)

"At last we are fighting back – this is a strike we’ve been waiting for!" That is the overwhelming feeling among the more than 50,000 workers on strike in Sweden from Monday, 12 May.

Britain: Privatising the health service

May 12, 2003 <a href="http://www.geocities.com/socialistparty/NHS/Hayesintro.htm"><img src="http://www.socialistworld.net/pics/HayesCover.jpg" alt="A Healthy Future? By Ciaran Mulholland" border="0" width="175" height="224" align="right"> </a>From The Socialist,

TONY BLAIR tries to justify New Labour’s plans for foundation hospitals by harking back to the foundation of the National Health Service (NHS) in 1948, when working class people finally won access to health care, […]