THE OPENING debate was introduced by Chris Bambery, the national organiser of the Socialist Workers Party.
John said, "The anti-war movement has transformed the political landscape in this country. We can gather the forces to challenge New Labour from the movement.
A NUMBER of readers have been in touch to tell me how they have used the Stop Bush petition at work. Caroline, a teacher from Leytonstone, told me, "The Stop Bush petition is going down very well-I should finish it soon so I can send it back to the Stop the War Coalition. I've got three extra regular paper buyers at work on the strength of the petition. Two other people are thinking about getting the paper each week. We will discuss walkouts at our first union meeting of term."
"BY SUPPORTING the struggles of the world's oppressed and exploited against capitalist globalisation, Socialist Worker has helped continue the internationalist tradition at the heart of socialist politics. At a time when other sections of the left have vacillated or capitulated in the face of the new imperialism, Socialist Worker has stood firm. It has provided activists throughout the UK with detailed and uncompromising arguments against Bush and Blair's 'war without end'." NEIL DAVIDSON, author of The Origins of Scottish Nationhood and Discovering the Scottish Revolution
THE EUROPEAN Social Forum aims to bring together the resistance across the continent to war and neo-liberalism. It takes place from 12 to 16 November with hundreds of meetings, workshops, debates and countless opportunities for informal discussions. A high point will be a demonstration on Saturday 15 November.
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"The workers loved L'Ordine Nuovo because in it they found something of themselves, the best part of themselves, because in it they sensed their own inner striving: how best can we be free? How can we become ourselves?" So wrote the 28 year old Italian revolutionary socialist Antonio Gramsci in August 1920.
Two weeks ago a popular uprising swept the president of Bolivia from office, and he was forced to flee to Miami. It was the culmination of a month of strikes and demonstrations after troops killed protesters in September. Workers, especially the country's tin miners, were the central force which confronted Bolivia's armed forces.
READERS OF Socialist Worker were out early in the morning across London on Thursday of last week. Over 160 postal workers bought copies of the paper on picket lines.
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FEAR OF anti-war protests has already hit George Bush's attempts to turn his visit to London next month into a political triumph. The British government has abandoned plans for Bush to parade with the queen down the Mall during his visit to Britain in four weeks time.
HARTLEPOOL IS a town in revolt. Hundreds of ordinary people are up in arms about the toxic ships. And they are furious with a system that wants to turn their town into a dumping ground for polluted waste. Geoff Lilley, a former Labour councillor and bus driver, told Socialist Worker, "After it got out that the ships were coming here there was a near revolution by the public." He continues, "People on the protests are ordinary grandmothers and mothers. They have never done anything like this before."
