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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 […]

Sweden: No criminalisation of Gottenburg protesters

July 20, 2001 CWI statement

Throughout Europe the clashes around the Gothenburg EU summit have been utilised to unleash a propaganda barrage against the growing anti-capitalist movement in general and socialists in particular. Completely wild and undefined accusations of being […]

Argentina: No light at the end of the tunnel

July 7, 2001 André Ferrari, Socialismo Revolucionário, (CWI-Brazil)

Argentina’s financial crisis is threatening an economic meltdown which could also sink the economies of South and Central America and have a catastrophic impact on the world economy. US imperialism and Argentina’s rulers are attempting […]

Europe: Gotenburg – Fight the bosses EU/EMU – For a Socialist Europe

June 18, 2001 CWI statement

On the one hand Bush and the bosses’ EU and on the other thousands of demonstrators. The battle lines are drawn in Gothenburg. The EU is a capitalist bloc formed by multinationals in Europe and […]