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History: 1962 Cuban missile crisis

October 17, 2002 Special feature from The Socialist, paper of the Socialist Party, England and Wales section of the CWI.

ON THE 22 October 1962 the president of the United States, John F Kennedy, made a speech to the nation. Informing everyone of the build up of offensive nuclear weapons (supplied by the Soviet Union) […]

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Ireland South: Flood Tribunal reveals Fianna Fail’s web of corruption

October 17, 2002 Michael Murphy, Socialist Party, Ireland

AS TRIBUNALS go the interim report by Flood into planning corruption is extremely hard hitting and leaves nothing to the imagination.

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Portugal: Public sector strike

October 17, 2002 Francisco R.

Hundreds of thousands of workers from the public sector participated yesterday, 16 October, in a national strike called by the CGTP union federation. The action was part of a struggle over wages and work conditions. […]

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