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  Analysis

  Review: Gregory Palast, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy

  August 4, 2002 senan

  IT IS scandal time again in US capitalism as the Worldcom accounting fraud follows hot on the heel of the Enron collapse. Xerox also find [...]

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  Ireland North

  Ireland North: Working class united by strike action

  August 3, 2002 senan

  THOUSANDS OF council workers, health and education workers joined the 17 July strike throughout Northern Ireland, picketing council offices, education and health boards, leisure centres [...]

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  Italy

  Italy: Genova Libera

  July 26, 2002 senan

  With a chant of  ’Genoa Libera’ 150,000 youth and young workers marched through the streets of Genova on Saturday. They marched to commemorate the year [...]

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  South Africa

  South Africa: Cosatu call two day general strike as SAMWU’S mass action breathes life into anti-privatisation campaign.

  July 23, 2002 senan

  Cosatu’s announcement yesterday that it has lifted the suspension on the anti-privatisation programme and will be calling a two-day general strike on the 1st and [...]

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  Science & Technology

  AIDS pandemic: Pharmaceutical giants obstruct progress

  July 21, 2002 senan

  AS 15,000 delegates attended the International Aids Conference in Barcelona, the United Nations estimates that 68 million people could die of the Aids disease by [...]

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  Kazakhstan

  Kazakhstan: Protest at a new wave of repression

  July 20, 2002 senan

  There has been a big stepping up of repression against the Workers Movement of Kazakhstan, a major working-class organisation. Criminal charges have been lodged against [...]