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  ARCHIVE | the Socialist Party was the CWI section in the Republic of Ireland until 2019

  Ireland Republic: Anti bin tax campaign – South Dublin County Council Residents resist Bin Tax

  February 16, 2004 By Kevin McLoughlin

  To defeat non-collection, large mobilisations in the communities that result in widespread disruption of the service and massive co-ordinated political pressure are necessary. The campaign in South Dublin is at a decisive stage.

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  ARCHIVE | the Socialist Party was the CWI section in the Republic of Ireland until 2019

  Ireland: Joe Higgins MP condemns reactionary “Immigration Bill 2004”

  February 15, 2004 CWI

  Mr J. Higgins: The haste in which the Minister is pushing this Bill through Dáil Éireann (Parliament) is not just indecent but obscene. The Government, when it comes to targeting the vulnerable, cannot hasten enough. [...]

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  Comment & Analysis

  world social forum: Mumbai – the politics of the wsf and socialism

  February 14, 2004 Per-Åke Westerlund, CWI

  Intervening in the World Social Forum in Mumbai was very much like intervening in one six day-long demonstration. The activity was more or less constant from eight in the morning until nine or ten at [...]

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  Kashmir

  Kashmir: Young martyr commemorated in Occupied Kashmir

  February 13, 2004 CWI members in Kashmir

  Thousands of people across the dividing Line of Control (LoC) between Indian and Pakistani Occupied Kashmir commemorated the 20th anniversary of the execution of Maqbool Butt, a radical nationalist leader, by the Indian authorities.

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  Sri Lanka

  Sri Lanka: Political crisis at the top leads to new elections

  February 12, 2004 CWI

  The president has prepared the ground for elections through several dramatic measures during the last few months. On 4 November she conducted a ’mini-coup’, taking command of three minister’s posts from the UNP government. On [...]