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  Nigeria

  Nigeria: Trade Union leaders arrested: Free detained labour leaders and stop all attacks on the labour movement

  October 16, 2003 Segun Sango, General Secretary, Lagos, 15th October 2003

  The Democratic Socialist Movement calls for the immediate and unconditional release of the six labour leaders who were refused bail and sent to prison custody by an Abuja magistrate court on Tuesday, 14th October 2003.

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  Italy

  Italy: Battle is joined over pension ‘reform’

  October 16, 2003 Henry Silke, Catania

  The latest venture of Italy’s right wing government onto the field of class battle is a blatant all-out attack on the whole of the working class.

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  Italy

  Italy: 200,000 protest at EU summit in Rome

  October 16, 2003 Gerri Creegan, Naples

  On Saturday 4 October, tens of thousands of people carrying flags and banners took to the streets of Rome in protest against the Europe of bankers and bosses. The Inter-governmental meeting of EU leaders to [...]

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  Austria

  Austria: ‘Platform for Fighting and Democratic Trade Unions’ launched

  October 16, 2003 Sonja Grusch, Sozialistische LinksPartei, Austria

  Over 60 people, mainly trade union activists and Works’ Council members from Vienna, and the neighbouring provinces of Lower Austria and Upper Austria, took part in the first conference of the “Platform for fighting and [...]

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  World Economy

  World economy: Will there be a recovery?

  October 15, 2003 Lynn Walsh

  THE BOOMS of the 1980s and 1990s were both driven by frenzied international financial speculation. They have left deep problems for capitalism, and now form a massive barrier to a new, sustained economic upswing in [...]