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  Britain

  Britain: Fire-fighters dispute

  November 19, 2002 Harvey Duke

  Camera crews, reporters and members of the International Socialists (CWI) along with other Scottish Socialist Party members waited outside the Blackness Fire Station in Dundee for the 6 o’clock start to the first national fire [...]

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  Comment & Analysis

  Review: Rabbit proof fence

  November 18, 2002 Kieran Roberts, from The Socialist, paper of the Socialist Party, England and Wales section of the CWI.

  THE FILM Rabbit Proof Fence is based on the true story of three girls’ trek across 1,500 miles of Australian outback in 1931. However, the film is not just the story of an incredible feat [...]

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  Kurdistan

  Kurdistan: Turkey continues repression of Kurds

  November 17, 2002 Stephen Smellie

  Kurdish people, known as the Kurds, live in an area that consists of south-eastern Turkey, northern Iraq, north-western Iran and a part of Syria.

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  USA

  US: Elections, Big bucks buys votes

  November 13, 2002 Lynn Walsh, from The Socialist, paper of the Socialist Party, England and Wales section of the CWI.

  MILLIONS OF big-business dollars were used by both major parties to campaign for votes. Both represent big business. The Republicans, however, push more aggressive pro-business policies and heavily outspent the Democrats, by $527.4 million to [...]

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  Europe

  Europe: European Social Forum

  November 13, 2002 Christine Thomas, from The Socialist, paper of the Socialist Party, England and Wales section of the CWI.

  FORTY-THOUSAND PEOPLE from all over Europe flooded into Florence, Italy, for the European Social Forum, nearly double the number the organisers had been expecting.