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Netherlands: Dutch general elections – a lost opportunity for the Socialist Party

January 29, 2003 By Offensief members (Dutch section of the CWI), 29 January 2003

The Dutch general election results (22 January) were a bitter disappointment for many members and supporters of the Socialist Party, a broad Left party, which had been tipped to make a historic electoral breakthrough. Instead […]

Scotland: No change to poverty under New Labour

January 29, 2003 Sinead Daly, Scotland, International Socialists (CWI Scotland)

It’s official. Six years of a New Labour government and four years of the Scottish Parliament has made little or no difference to the lives of millions of working class people in Scotland.

North Korea: US imperialism confronts Pyongyang

January 28, 2003 Laurence Coates, Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (CWI Sweden).

What does Kim Jong Il’s defiance mean for the Bush military doctrine? Can these events lead to yet another US military intervention? Offensiv takes a closer look at the Korean crisis.

Brazil: Lula addresses enormous crowds at World Social Forum

January 28, 2003 Marcus Kollbrunner, Port Alegre, 26 January 2003

"Ole, ole, ole, Lula… Lula… Lula", chanted a vast crowd that engulfed the Sunset Park in Porto Alegre on Friday afternoon, last week.

Scotland: Big opportunities for socialists in May poll

January 27, 2003 Philip Stott

The second elections to the Scottish Parliament take place on May 1st 2003. May Day is the traditional day of celebration and commemoration for the international workers and socialist movement. But the first four years […]

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 […]

Europe: EU Enlargement after Copenhagen

January 25, 2003 Karl Debbaut, CWI, 24 January 2003

Last December’s negotiations between the existing EU members and the candidate countries for enlargement drew to a close at the Copenhagen summit. The 10 countries invited to join in May 2004 are Cyprus, the Czech […]

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 […]

Cyprus: Mass protests rocks ruling class

January 24, 2003 Dave Carr, from The Socialist.

ON 14 January an estimated 70,000 Turkish Cypriots – one-quarter of the northern Cypriot population – marched through divided Nicosia in support of a United Nations (UN) plan to re-unify the divided island.

Britain: Solid support for firefighters strike

January 23, 2003 From The Socialist, paper of the Socialist Party, CWI in England and Wales.

MATTHEW RICHARDSON from Lincoln reports how, led by a fire tender and carrying a coffin to symbolise the demise of the fire service, 200 firefighters and supporters marched through the centre of Lincoln.