Socialist Affairs

Issue 3, Volume 47

1998

Europe's greatest priority - creating jobs 

Chancellor Viktor Klima of Austria, President of the European Council of Ministers and Leader of the Austrian Social Democratic Party, SPÖ, examines the principal tasks facing the European Union


Government by partnership 

Prime Minister Abderrahman Youssoufi, leader of the Socialist Union of Popular Forces, USFP, outlines the priorities for good governance in Morocco


A word about my country 

President Eduard Shevardnadze, of the Citizen's Union of Georgia, puts the realities of Georgia today in the context of his region's history
 


Profile 

Gerhard Schröder Socialist Affairs traces the life of the winner of the German federal elections in September
 


Carrying forward the achievements of the left 

Prime Minister of Italy, Massimo D'Alema, leader of the Democrats of the Left, DS, considers the challenges facing the left in Europe
 


Overhauling the machinery of the State 

Abdoulaye Makhtar Diop, Minister for the Modernisation of the State, of the Socialist Party of Senegal, talks of the plans for his country
 


Political outcry in Malaysia 

Lim Kit Siang, Secretary General of the Democratic Action Party, DAP, of Malaysia, reflects on the political crisis affecting his country
 


Social justice through economic and social rights 

The SI Committee on Human Rights, SICOHR, has decided to focus on economic and social rights. Thomas Hammarberg, a Swedish member of the Committee and former Secretary General of Amnesty International, explains why
 


Obituary 

José Francisco Peña Gómez, Leader of the Dominican Revolutionary Party, PRD, and a Vice-President of the Socialist International
 


In memoriam 

Bernt Carlsson, Secretary General of the Socialist International from 1976 to 1983, is being remembered on the tenth anniversary of the explosion aboard Pan Am flight 103 over the Scottish town of Lockerbie
 


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