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US Labor Against the War

Dianne Feeley — 2003-02-03T00:00:00Z

On January 11 a meeting of more than 100 officers of U.S. unions and activists from a number of labour antiwar committees met in Chicago to establish US Labor Against the War (USLAW). The meeting reflected the growth of U.S. antiwar sentiment over the last six months.

- IV347 - February 2003 / United States (USA)

A changed situation

Penelope Duggan — 2003-02-03T00:00:00Z

In February the Fourth International's world congress will meet in Europe, bringing together hundreds of revolutionary socialists from five continents to assess the tasks of Marxists in the coming years.

- IV347 - February 2003 / Fourth International

The challenges for the new government

Fernando López Romero — 2003-02-03T00:00:00Z

The triumph of Lucio Gutiérrez has put the demands of the popular movement to the fore and must be analyzed in the historical context of Ecuador over the last two decades.

- IV347 - February 2003 / Ecuador

The Argentinazo one year on

James D. Cockcroft — 2003-02-03T00:00:00Z

"Without workers a factory does not function. But without bosses, yes, it functions — and very well indeed! With all the other comrades we are going to demonstrate that the nation functions with the hands of working people and not with the thieving hands of the politicians."

- IV347 - February 2003 / Argentina

A great movement is born

Praful Bidwai — 2003-02-03T00:00:00Z

The first Asian Social Forum (ASF) - just-concluded - saw a unique confluence of grassroots social movements, people's organizations and radical NGOs which interrogate globalization and counter pose equality, human rights and justice to the shop-worn agendas of trans-national big business.

- IV347 - February 2003 / Asia, Social Forum

In search of lost stability

Yeter Dursun — 2003-02-03T00:00:00Z

"We have committed suicide": this comment by the outgoing prime minister, Bülent Ecevit, aptly sums up the situation following the Turkish parliamentary elections of November 3, 2002.

- IV347 - February 2003 / Turkey

Some progress for Kurdish nationalists

Yeter Dursun — 2003-02-03T00:00:00Z

The Kurdish nationalists contested the elections under the rubric of DEHAP; a party of 'substitution' formed in the eventuality of a dissolution by the Constitutional Court of the Party of the Democracy of the People (HADEP, led by Murat Bozlak).

- IV347 - February 2003 / Turkey

Resignation

Ufak Uras — 2003-02-03T00:00:00Z

The people have voted for the AKP out of spite and anger against the parties of the centre and against the centrifugal forces. I believe that this structural situation could open the road for the left in the period to come. On condition that it can dare to look at its own face in the mirror.

- IV347 - February 2003 / Turkey

Necdet Sara

2003-02-03T00:00:00Z

Necdet Sara has died due to heart failure at the age of 44. He had joined the Turkish section of the Fourth International just before the coup of 1980.

- IV347 - February 2003 / Obituary

"Neither imitation nor copy"

Michael Löwy — 2003-02-03T00:00:00Z

From 1959 to 1967, Che's thought evolved considerably. He distanced himself ever further from his initial illusions concerning Soviet or Soviet-style socialism, that is, from the Stalinist version of Marxism.

- IV347 - February 2003 / Cuba, Reviews