Nieuws van de afdeling

22 September 2003

25,000 demonstrate against cuts

Around 25,000 people from throughout the Netherlands gathered in Amsterdam on Saturday to demonstrate against the government’s proposed cuts in social services, welfare and education. The turn-out was more than twice as great as expected by the organisers, the Action Committee "Turn the Tide", and was confirmed by police as accurate.

17 September 2003

Dutch Grocer Tries to Calm Furor Over Pay

NIJMEGEN, the Netherlands, Sept. 17 – Hoping to quell a national outcry over corporate compensation here that has spread to its own supermarkets, the Dutch food retailer Royal Ahold said today that its chairman would resign and that it would overhaul its chief executive’s multimillion-dollar pay package.

16 September 2003

The failure of the WTO summit in Cancún opens up the prospect of social globalisation

The result of the summit was no surprise. During the last week in Cancún I have seen the contradictions between, on the one side, the G21 (the coalition of more developed developing countries) under the leadership of Brazil, and, on the other side, the European Union and United States, grow ever sharper. European Commissioner Pascal Lamy is the person who above all has had to pay for this. By attaching itself, at the Doha negotiating round, to an uncompromising demand for a radical review of farm subsidies, the EU had manoeuvred itself into an impossible position. At Cancún it turned out that the Union did not really want to follow through on this commitment.

4 June 2003

SP wins four seats in Senate

The SP group in the Dutch Senate has doubled its presence in the ‘First Chamber’ from 2 to 4 seats, due to the elections on May 26th. by the members of the 12 provincial parliaments.

12 March 2003

SP doubles seats in provincial parliaments

Due to the results of the provincial elections on March 11th 2003, the SP now gets 39 seats in 11 provincial parliaments, an increase of 20. This will also result in twice as much seats in the national Senate (from 2 to 4 seats). The new Senate will be elected by the members of the provincial parliaments on May 26th.

4 March 2003

Mass demonstration against the war on March 22nd in Amsterdam

On an international meeting of anti-war organisations in London, various plans for demonstrations were anounced and a common declaration was issued.

International