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  ARCHIVE | Liberdade, Socialismo e Revolução was the CWI section in Brazil until 2019

  Brazil: President Lula – major election victory for PT

  October 31, 2002 Andre Ferrari, São Paulo, 28 October 2002

  What elected Lula was the rejection of neoliberalism, but the PT (Workers Party) will not be able to meet the expectations of the masses unless there is a real break with the policies of Cardoso [...]

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  New Zealand

  New Zealand: A new upturn in Industrial Struggle

  October 30, 2002 CWI

  When the National Party, traditionally the main capitalist party in New Zealand, was defeated at the polls in November 1999 workers breathed a collective sigh of relief. After fifteen years of neo-liberal ’reforms’ the new [...]

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  Italy

  Italy: How Naples responded to the general strike call

  October 29, 2002 Gerri Creegan, CWI /Lotta per il socialismo, 29 October 2002

  In Naples, as everywhere else in Italy on 18 October, the general strike called by the Cgil trade union federation got support from a wide range of other organisations like Cobas, Sin.Cobas, the unemployed movement, [...]

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  Iraq

  Iraq: Anti-war protests around the world

  October 29, 2002 Eljeer, New York.

  26 October saw one of the largest anti-war demonstrations in Washington DC since the Vietnam War. The Demonstration was organised by ANSWER, a coalition developed by the ’Workers World’ organisation. The coalition started after the [...]

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  ARCHIVE | Socialist Alternative was the CWI section in Russia and the CIS until 2019

  Russia: Putin’s hostage-takers policy leaves hundreds dead

  October 28, 2002 Rob Jones, Moscow.

  President Putin’s ’war against terror’ has brought the very terror to Moscow itself. Last week, a group of 50 heavily armed Chechens drove through Moscow in two minibuses and seized a theatre in the middle [...]