 08/06/03 |
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 France:
Rage Grows at Raffarin’s Pension "Reforms" |
ACROSS
FRANCE in countless villages, towns and cities, French workers from
both the private and public sector, students and young people demonstrated
in their hundreds of thousands and took strike action on Tuesday 3 June,
expressing their growing determination to fight against the right-wing
Raffarin government’s pension "reforms". Undoubtedly
the mood of the demonstrators and strike activists is more politicised
and enraged than on previous mobilisations.  |
| Britain:
Tony Woodley Elected General Secretary of TGWU |
TONY
WOODLEY'S victory as general secretary of the Transport and General
Workers Union (TGWU) is a big defeat for Tony Blair and the Blairites
in the trade unions. |
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Britain: Exposed - Blair's Weapons of Mass Deception |
AS
TONY Blair jetted his way through the Gulf area, meeting Kuwaiti sheikhs,
lecturing to British squaddies and kissing Iraqi children in one big
photo-opportunity, evidence was growing that he and US president Bush
lied about Saddam's weapons of mass destruction (WMD). |
| Strike
Wave Rocks Europe |
AS
STRIKES and demonstrations against public sector cuts sweep France,
Germany, and Austria, the mainstream British press's most prominent
mention of this mass movement is in the gossip columns - apparently
Madonna is upset because her daughter's teachers have been on strike!
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| Israel/Palestine:
Behind Sharon's 'Change of Heart' |
"THIS
IS not a happy decision," said Israel's right-wing prime minister
Ariel Sharon last Sunday in Jerusalem. After a six-hour cabinet meeting
which divided his Likud and far-right coalition allies, Sharon announced
his reluctant acceptance of the US-promoted 'road map' to end the Israeli/Palestinian
conflict. |
| How
Imperialism Impoverishes Africa |
THE
RECENT decision by the United Nations (UN) to send troops to the Democratic
Republic of the Congo (DRC) is the latest in a series of interventions
on the continent of Africa, ostensibly to quell ethnic conflicts and
avert a "humanitarian nightmare".
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DESPITE
THE subtitle, Imagine is another book in the same category as those
by Swedish left-wing author Johan Ehrenberg, or the bestseller ’Global
Trap’. Imagine gives a lot of useful facts about poverty, in Scotland
and on a world scale, and on the mega-rich. It describes Blair as a
continuation of Thatcherism etc, but like the books mentioned above,
it does not show a way to break this process. |
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