England’s Socialist Alliance adopted a new constitution at a conference in London on December 1, 2001 with over 700 members present. The constitution - proposed by the International Socialist Group (ISG), the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) and five prominent independents - was adopted by 345 votes against 311 for all other alternatives.
New government supported by far right
9 February 2002, byTHE big winner in the Danish national and local elections on November 20, 2001 was the Liberal Party, led by Anders Fogh Rasmussen. For the first time since 1924, Social Democracy is not the biggest political force.
Enhedslisten/Red-Green Alliance programme
9 February 2002, byThe Enhedslisten/Red-Green Alliance election campaign focused on a nine point programme.
Making peace with America
9 February 2002, bySubtitled "September 11, Causes and Consequences" Fred Halliday’s book says little about the "two hours which shook the world", but is in fact an assessment of the international political factors which gave rise to the attack, notably the questions of Islamic fundamentalism, globalisation and United States capitalism.
The EU and America’s war
9 February 2002, byThe attack on the United States by a terrorist organization of Islamic fundamentalist origin has shaken the planet: nowhere is safe any more, not even the USA. After all the other wildcat privatisations, states have now lost their monopoly control over the most destructive and pernicious weapons.
The ‘war on terror’ - a first balance sheet
9 February 2002, byNow, for the first time since the end of the Cold War, since September 11 the US project has an overarching ideology, the ’war against terrorism’. It represents an ambitious new stage, an attempt to politically wipe out the opposition to the US corporations.
2001, or the Great Cyclical Dowturn
9 February 2002, byAn analysis of the world economic situation is of course complicated by the attacks of last September 11. The discussion is necessarily a dual one: on the nature of the current downturn, and on the major features of the new period that opened in the wake of the 9-11 events.
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