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  Nigeria

  Nigeria: Lessons of the general strike against fuel price rise.

  July 31, 2003 Special Bulletin August 2003, Socialist Democracy, CWI in Nigeria

  After eight days of grim heroic struggles, the Obasanjo government was forced to reduce the recent increment in fuel prices by 15%. Now petrol officially is to sell at N34 per litre instead of N40, [...]

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

  Brazil: Civil servants’ strike grows

  July 30, 2003 Marcus Kollbrunner, Brazil, 24 July

  The civil servants strike against the Lula governments pension ‘reform’, that began on the 8 July, is growing.

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  Britain

  Britain: Kelly death deepens Blair’s crisis

  July 29, 2003 Editorial from The Socialist, paper of the Socialist Party, CWI in England and Wales.

  COMING ON top of the controversy surrounding weapons of mass destruction (WMDs), the death of scientist Dr David Kelly has brought about the most serious crisis that New Labour has faced since coming to power [...]

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  World Economy

  World Economic Forum: Defend our public services

  July 28, 2003 Susan Fitzgerald, from Socialist Voice, paper of the Socialist Party, CWI in Ireland.

  DUBLIN HAS the odious task of hosting the World Economic Forum (WEF) from 19 – 20 October. The WEF, which is a representative "think tank" for the top thousand multinational corporations in the world, plans [...]

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  ARCHIVE | the Socialist Party was the CWI section in Australia until 2019

  Australia: No troops to Solomon Islands!

  July 26, 2003 Denise Dudley, Melbourne, Socialist Party, CWI in Australia

  Less then 6 months after Australian Government joined the US in the War on Iraq, Prime Minister John Howard is about to launch his own ’Coalition of the Willing’ in what can only be described [...]