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.
A changed situation
3 February 2003, byIn 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.
The challenges for the new government
3 February 2003, byThe 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.
The Argentinazo one year on
3 February 2003, by"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."
A great movement is born
3 February 2003, byThe 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.
In search of lost stability
3 February 2003, by"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.
Some progress for Kurdish nationalists
3 February 2003, byThe 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).
Resignation
3 February 2003, byThe 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.
Necdet Sara
3 February 2003Necdet 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.
"Neither imitation nor copy"
3 February 2003, byFrom 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.
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