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Ireland North: Holy Cross conflict

September 8, 2001 Peter Hadden, CWI Ireland.

The situation outside the Holy Cross primary school has developed into an ugly stand-off as community leaders talk about trying to settle the conflict. At root, this conflict is about redefining boundaries between Catholic and […]

Peru: Peruvian populism

September 5, 2001 Tony Saunois, CWI

THE SECOND round run-off in Peru’s presidential elections illustrates the desperate need for a mass socialist alternative for the workers, peasants and downtrodden sections of the middle class and urban poor.

Anti-capitalism: Socialists and ATTAC

September 4, 2001 Robert Bechert, CWI.

The end of April protests against the FTAA summit in Quebec were the latest headline catching illustration of the growing popular challenge to neo-liberal policies and to "globalisation", i.e. the increasing domination of the big […]

World Economy: The world economy and the class struggle

September 1, 2001 CWI statement

Genoa and the worsening world economic situation necessitate that the Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI) fully takes stock of the present general economic, social and political situation in order to prepare our members and […]

Macedonia: What lies behind NATO intervention?

August 31, 2001 Niall Mulholland.

NATO HAS launched ’Operation Essential Harvest’ in Macedonia, marking the fourth intervention by Western forces in the Balkans in ten years.

South Africa: General strike against privatisation

August 29, 2001 Weizmann Hamilton, CWI South Africa

The struggle against privatisation in SA has entered a qualitatively new stage. At the end of August Cosatu will be holding a two-day general strike to protest against the government’s plan to privatise the Electricity […]

Indonesia: After Wahid

August 20, 2001 Niall Mulholland, CWI

The bitter power struggle between rival factions of Indonesia’s ruling elite came to a head this summer. The People’s Consultative Assembly completed a nine-month campaign to oust president Abdurrahman Wahid, voting 591-0 on 23 July […]

Italy: After Genoa, a new radicalisation has begun

August 14, 2001 Robert Bechert, CWI.

The 300,000 strong 21 July demonstration and the state repression in Genoa are turning points both in Italy and for the growing worldwide opposition to capitalist globalisation.

Anti-capitalism: What now after Genoa

August 10, 2001 Clare Doyle, CWI, 10 August 2001

Anyone who participated in the 300,000 strong demonstration against the G8 summit in Genoa on 21 July this year will look back on it as an historic day – a high point. After it, nothing […]

World economy: Here comes the slump

August 10, 2001 Per Olsson

Summer is usually a period when "not much happens", at least in Europe. But this Summer is like the calm before the storm. The mass demonstration in Genoa and the last general strike in Argentina […]