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  Iraq

  Iraq: Is US imperialism invincible?

  May 3, 2003 Hannah Sell

  "A WAR to remake the world" is how Michael Ledeen, a leading neo-conservative associated with the Bush government, described the war on Iraq. Exactly how the world could be remade was succinctly explained by White [...]

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  Israel / Palestine

  Israel/Palestine: ‘Road map’ will not bring peace

  May 2, 2003 Dave Carr

  PUBLICATION OF George Bush’s long-delayed ’road map’ to a Israeli-Palestinian peace settlement and an independent Palestinian state by 2005, was inched forward last week. But only after Palestinian president Yasser Arafat agreed, at the eleventh [...]

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  ARCHIVE | Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna was the CWI section in Sweden until 2019

  Sweden: Council workers fight back against low pay

  April 30, 2003 Per-Åke Westerlund, Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (CWI Sweden)

  The council workers’ strike in Sweden has the support of 84 per cent of the population according to opinion polls. Low paid, mainly women workers in hospitals, schools and childcare are fighting for wage increases [...]

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  Canada

  Canada: Health cuts worsen SARs spread

  April 30, 2003 Robert Messing, Socialist Alternative, Toronto

  Toronto has been in the grips of its worst health scare since the polio epidemics of the 1950s. The last few weeks have seen the breakdown of a hospital system compromised by years of neo-liberal [...]

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  Austria

  Austria: Battle on pensions goes into decisive round

  April 30, 2003 Franz Breier jun., Vienna

  April 29 saw up to 3,000 workers attend a morning open-air workplace meeting of the OMV (Austrian oil company) and other companies in Vienna in protest at the government’s attacks on the pension system. This [...]