Elections Follow

RESPECT HAS been in existence for just over a month, and we have a mountain to climb in a short time if we want to make an impact. There are just 100 days to go to the 10 June elections. We are focusing on the European and Greater London Assembly election on 10 June because they are run on a proportional system rather than the traditional "first past the post" system.

THE PEOPLE of Haiti are caught in a horrible vice. On one side is a corrupt government that has rigged elections and presided over deepening poverty for the mass of people. On the other is an uprising led by brutal murderers who ran a dictatorship that terrorised the country in the early 1990s.

SUPPORTERS OF Respect: The Unity Coalition have been gearing up for their challenge to New Labour in the 10 June elections. Meetings have been taking place around the country to begin gathering together the growing numbers who want to be part of organising that challenge.

ACROSS THE country socialists have been at the centre of building the Stop the War Coalition. This has reached parts no other movement has ever reached, and mobilised numbers the like of which we have never seen before. But it is not just over the war. Already Respect: The Unity Coalition is building up into a serious challenge to New Labour in the 10 June European and Greater London elections. Unite Against Fascism has brought together people in opposition to the BNP on a welcome and unprecedented scale.

Respect-The Unity Coalition supporters speak about the urgent steps needed for an effective challenge to New Labour in the June elections

Only friends of US will get a vote in Iraq BUSH AND Blair claimed their war on Iraq was a fight for democracy. Yet the US won't allow free elections to take place in Iraq.

THE ELECTIONS for the Amicus union executive last week indicated how much has changed in Britain's second largest union. Members of the left wing Unity Gazette slate won 23 out of 48 positions, almost a majority.

RUSSIAN PRESIDENT Vladimir Putin looks set to claim victory in the country's parliamentary elections last weekend.

THE RESULTS of the executive elections for the new Amicus union were still coming in as Socialist Worker went to press.

THE BNP has 16 councillors. It wants to achieve a breakthrough in next June's elections when MEPs, London Assembly members and councillors will be elected on the same day across Britain.

IAN PAISLEY'S Catholic-hating DUP came top of the poll in last week's assembly elections.

VOTING PAPERS for the elections to the new national executive council for the Amicus union are now out. Amicus was created by the merger of the AEEU and MSF unions. The left is standing on a slate for the Amicus Unity Gazette. Election campaigning is well under way. The ballot closes on Friday of next week.