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  Africa

  Africa: How imperialism impoverishes Africa

  June 7, 2003 Keith Pattenden

  THE RECENT decision by the United Nations (UN) to send troops to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is the latest in a series of interventions on the continent of Africa, ostensibly to quell [...]

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  Britain

  Britain: Exposed – Blair’s weapons of mass deception

  June 6, 2003 CWI

  AS TONY Blair jetted his way through the Gulf area, meeting Kuwaiti sheikhs, lecturing to British squaddies and kissing Iraqi children in one big photo-opportunity, evidence was growing that he and US president Bush lied [...]

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  France

  France: Rage grows at Raffarin’s pension “reforms”

  June 5, 2003 Kevin Simpson and Judy Beishon, France

  Across France in countless villages, towns and cities, French workers from both the private and public sector, students and young people demonstrated in their hundreds of thousands and took strike action on Tuesday 3 June, [...]

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  France

  France: Mass strikes, hardening mood

  June 4, 2003 Compiled for CWI on line by Clare Doyle

  Mass strikes and demonstrations on Tuesday, 3 June, show a hardening mood of combativity and solidarity in the battle against pension reform.

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  Austria

  Austria: Over one million strike against pension cuts

  June 4, 2003 Laura Rafetseder, SLP, Vienna

  More than 1 million workers in 18,000 workplaces all over Austria, a third of the entire Austrian workforce, took industrial action on 3 June – the country’s biggest strike since World War Two.