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  Ireland: Gearing up for bins battle

  May 17, 2003 Diarmuid Naessens

  THE CAMPAIGNS against bin charges around Dublin are gearing up for battle as the government is preparing to introduce a new "Environmental Waste Management Act" with powers to stop collection to non-payers.

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  Iraq

  cwi comment and analysis: The world after the imperialist conquest of Iraq

  May 17, 2003 Committee for a Workers’ International, 14 May 2003

  The war in Iraq is the fourth ‘high-tech’ victory for US imperialism and its ‘allies’ in a little over a decade.

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  Britain

  Britain: Time to make the break

  May 16, 2003 Editorial from The Socialist, paper of the Socialist Party, CWI in England and Wales.

  CLARE SHORT left Blair’s cabinet with a bang. Her resignation speech contained a withering attack on the "control freakery" of the Blairite "clique" at the top of the party and Blair’s "presidential" rule by "diktat". [...]

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  Kazakhstan

  Kazakhstan: Mothers’ social rights protest attacked by police

  May 15, 2003 Ainur Kurmanov, President of the Workers’ Movement of Kazakhstan

  A peaceful protest by several hundred women in Kentau City, southern Kazakhstan, fighting on social issues and against police repression, was brutally attacked and broken up by police, and many of the protesters were arrested. [...]

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  Austria

  Austria: Mass protests oppose pension cuts

  May 15, 2003 Sonja Grusch, Sozialistiche LinksPartei, Vienna

  On 13 May, in the late afternoon, 200,000 people (according to the ÖGB, the Austrian trade union federation) marched through the streets of Vienna against the government’s pension ‘reforms’ (the police said "over 100,000" participated).