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  Israel / Palestine

  Israel/Palestine: Sharon’s deadly assassination squads

  June 30, 2003 CWI

  ARIEL SHARON appears to be biting the hand that feeds him. The assassination of another leading Hamas activist by an Israeli hit squad has further undermined George Bush’s efforts to put a lid on the [...]

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  Comment & Analysis

  George Orwell: Facing up to the contradictions

  June 30, 2003 Michael Calderbank

  ERIC ARTHUR Blair, better known under his pseudonym George Orwell, was born in Motihari, India 100 years ago this month, his father being a lower-ranking colonial administrator in the days of the British Raj.

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  Nigeria

  Nigeria: General strike against fuel price rises

  June 30, 2003 DSM National Secretariat, Lagos, 29th June 2003

  For the third time in just over four years the Obasanjo regime has again increased the pump price of petroleum products from N26 per litre for petrol to N40 per litre, while kerosene and diesel [...]

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  France

  France: Workers on the move

  June 28, 2003 CWI

  ON JUNE 12 the two central leaders of the French trade union movement came down to Marseille to address a mass rally at the end of a 260,000-strong demonstration. Bernard Thibault, leader of the Confederation [...]

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  Theory & Marxism

  Theory: The general strike today

  June 26, 2003 CWI

  THE WORLDWIDE CAPITALIST ideological offensive of the 1990s, in the wake of the collapse of Stalinism in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, meant that for most of that decade the workers’ movement was on [...]