WW archive > Issue 472 - 20 March 2003
Leading the way
Stand up and be counted
Obvious
Dalia and Soraya came up from Ravensbourne school in Bromley, Kent
Students organise
Promising start made
Around the web: Scottish Socialist Youth
Firefighters defy war fever
FBU delegates overturn leadership deal
Move into action
Breaking free
Joey and Sophie go to Prendergast school, Lewisham
What democracy looks like
Giving it a go
On Friday March 7 several hundred school students walked out of Blatchington Mill school in Hove, Sussex, in an anti-war protest. Five were suspended for two months - they can only return for their GCSE exams. The Weekly Worker spoke to two of them
Making a difference
Evan and Cat are from Chesham in South Bucks
Against war, for democracy
It is not enough to point to the absence of popular democratic control, argues Kit Robinson. The working class and anti-war movement needs a positive programme
Organise people's assemblies
Youth referendum
Get involved!
ISO Zimbabwe appeal
Following his expulsion from the Movement for Democratic Change and ejection from the Zimbabwe parliament, International Socialist Organisation leader Munyaradzi Gwisai (pictured) is contesting the subsequent by-election in his Highfield, Harare constituency. Comrade Gwisai was expelled for publicly opposing the rightwing policies of the MDC, which was set up in 1999 by trade unionists following the militant working class struggles of that year, but came increasingly under the control of business, farming and pro-imperialist interests. He was expelled from parliament under the terms of the anti-defection clause of the constitution, introduced by Robert Mugabe's Zanu-PF in 1996. The ISO - fraternal organisation of the Socialist Workers Party in England and Wales - has issued this call for financial support
Ready for Day X
Direct action call
Alarm bells ring for Palestine
There will be consequences
Nabs is 16 and from a school in north London
Warmongers sabotaged
Youth on the move
Barometer of struggle
School students are taking the lead in the struggle against the war. School strikes are breaking out everywhere - London, Edinburgh, Birmingham, Liverpool. Mark Fischer reports on the March 19 protest outside parliament