| Dates | Event |
| 29-Apr-95 | Clause IV of the Labour Party Constitution abolished at Special Labour Party Conference following proposals from Tony Blair |
| Sept 1995 -Feb 1998 | Liverpool dockworkers’ strike |
| Feb-97 | Socialist Party and the Socialist launched |
| 01-May-97 | Labour wins landslide victory in general election and Blair becomes Prime Minister |
| 06-Jun-97 | General election in the Irish Republic results in Joe Higgins’ election as a TD (MP) |
| 31-Aug-97 | Death of ‘Princess’ Diana Windsor leads to crisis in monarchy |
| 11-Sep-97 | Referendum in Scotland votes in favour of establishing a Scottish Parliament |
| 18-Sep-97 | Wales Referendum votes in favour of establishing a Welsh Assembly |
| 1997-98 | Economic crisis develops in East and South-East Asia due to growth of credit bubbles. Crisis spreads to Brazil and Russia |
| 10-Apr-98 | Good Friday Agreement signed in Northern Ireland to establish power sharing |
| 1999-2001 | Series of anti-capitalist demonstrations rocks governments worldwide, beginning in Seattle and ending with Genoa |
| 2000-02 | Bursting of the ‘dotcom bubble’ in the US, leading to collapse of a string of companies including Enron and WorldCom |
| 01-Apr-00 | Demonstration of 100,000 Rover workers and supporters against BMW’s closure threats and redundancies in Birmingham leads to takeover of firm by Phoenix Consortium, which itself went bust in 2005 |
| 04-May-00 | Greater London elections see Ken Livingstone become Mayor as an independent |
| 8-16 Sept 2000 | Fuel dispute shakes Blair government |
| 07-Nov-00 | US Presidential election eventually results in a narrow victory for George Bush amidst ‘hanging chads’ controversy |
| 07-Jun-01 | Labour wins second consecutive landslide general election victory |
| 11-Sep-01 | Al-Qa’ida attacks four targets in US including the ‘Twin Towers’ in New York City |
| Oct-01 | US and allied forces invade Afghanistan. A swift initial victory and the overthrow of the Taliban government are followed by a long period of occupation and turmoil |
| 01-Dec-01 | Socialist Party leaves Socialist Alliance in protest at refusal to adopt a federal structure. Alliance later disintegrates |
| 11-Apr-02 | Attempted coup by pro-US right-wing forces in Venezuela is defeated by mass movement of workers and poor and spurs leftward move of Chavez regime |
| 15-Feb-03 | Mass demonstrations in protest against proposed invasion of Iraq in US, Britain and rest of world |
| 20-Mar-03 | Invasion of Iraq brings a swift military victory but embroilment in a bloody occupation and turmoil in region for many years |
| May-03 | Scottish Socialist Party wins 6 seats in Scottish Parliament elections up from 1 in 1999 |
| 11-Mar-04 | Madrid bombings by al-Qa’ida cell raises anger against right-wing government leading to its defeat in general elections |
| 26-Dec-04 | Tsunami wreaks devastation and death around coasts of South and South-East Asia |
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