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  World Economy

  World currencies: Turbulent times ahead?

  March 2, 2004 Lynn Walsh

  Eurozone leaders attending the recent G7 summit of finance ministers from the richest capitalist nations let out a howl of impotent anguish. The statement issued after their meeting (7/8 February) at Boca Raton, Florida, deplored [...]

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  ARCHIVE | Liberdade, Socialismo e Revolução was the CWI section in Brazil until 2019

  Brazil: Recession and corruption

  March 1, 2004 André Ferrari, Revolutionary Socialism (cwi - Brazil)

  The government of Luis Inácio Lula da Silva, or Lula, leader of the Workers’ Party (PT) is now in its most critical period since taking office in January 2003.

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  Haiti

  Haiti: Aristide flees country as US sends troops

  March 1, 2004 Niall Mulholland, cwi, London

  The president of Haiti, Jean Bertrand Aristide, the former “radical slum priest”, fled the country on 29 February, under pressure from the Bush administration and the threat of armed rebels.

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  Iraq

  Iraq: Stark choices in Iraq

  February 28, 2004 Robert Bechert, cwi

  The US regime desperately wants to hand over the day-to-day running of Iraq, so it can pull the strings but avoid the political, military and financial costs of direct occupation.

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  Pakistan

  Pakistan: Workers fight Musharraf’s regime

  February 27, 2004 CWI

  Compared to five years ago, the railway colony of Lahore where all railway workers live and work has an air of demoralisation and fear. The military regime installed military officers in all workshops to spy [...]