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  South Africa

  South Africa: The rich get richer and the poor get poorer

  July 9, 2003 First published in the April-May edition of Izwi La Basebenzi (Voice of the workers), the newspaper of the Democratic Socialist Movement, affiliated section of the CWI in South Africa.

  In 1996, hardly 2 years after the ANC was elected, the leadership, having long since buried the Freedom Charter, abandoned the Reconstruction and Development Programme, replacing it with the neo-liberal capitalist Growth, Employment and Redistribution [...]

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

  Brazil: Civil servants strike against pension “reforms”

  July 9, 2003 Marcus Kollbrunner, Brazil

  On the 8 July an estimated 350,000 civil servants in Brazil went on an indefinite strike against the pension ‘reforms’ proposed by the Lula government.

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  Nigeria

  Nigeria: Mighty general strike ends with a compromise

  July 8, 2003 Robert Bechert, CWI

  The eight-day Nigerian general strike, which ended on 8 July, was a marvellous demonstration of the strength of the working class and the weakness of the political class.

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  Science & Technology

  Science: Cecilia Payne’s role in star physics research

  July 7, 2003 Roy Farrar

  Cecilia Payne, working in the 1920s, was the first person to show how the mechanics of Einstein’s energy conversion formula (e = mc2 ) applied beyond our planet – that the process we now call [...]

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  Israel / Palestine

  Israel/Palestine: What’s behind the “ceasefile”?

  July 6, 2003 From The Socialist, paper of the Socialist Party, CWI in England and Wales

  PALESTINIAN MILITIAS have declared a three month suspension in armed attacks against Israel and the Israeli Defence Force (IDF) has withdrawn from parts of the Gaza strip. There will be hopes worldwide that this is [...]