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  Ireland North

  Ireland North: Workers must reclaim the peace

  October 18, 2002 From The Socialist, paper of the Socialist Party, England and Wales section of the CWI.

  PEOPLE HAD been expecting this suspension and now fear that it could be permanent. We will now likely face a long drawn out political crisis with little hope of any agreement at the end.

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  ARCHIVE | Socialismo Revolucionario was the CWI section in Portugal until 2019

  Portugal: Public sector strike

  October 17, 2002 Francisco R.

  Hundreds of thousands of workers from the public sector participated yesterday, 16 October, in a national strike called by the CGTP union federation. The action was part of a struggle over wages and work conditions. [...]

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  ARCHIVE | the Socialist Party was the CWI section in the Republic of Ireland until 2019

  Ireland South: Flood Tribunal reveals Fianna Fail’s web of corruption

  October 17, 2002 Michael Murphy, Socialist Party, Ireland

  AS TRIBUNALS go the interim report by Flood into planning corruption is extremely hard hitting and leaves nothing to the imagination.

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  History & Anniversaries

  History: 1962 Cuban missile crisis

  October 17, 2002 Special feature from The Socialist, paper of the Socialist Party, England and Wales section of the CWI.

  ON THE 22 October 1962 the president of the United States, John F Kennedy, made a speech to the nation. Informing everyone of the build up of offensive nuclear weapons (supplied by the Soviet Union) [...]

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  ARCHIVE | the Socialist Party was the CWI section in the Republic of Ireland until 2019

  Ireland South: Government of crisis

  October 16, 2002 Kevin McLoughlin, Socialist Party, Ireland

  Four months after nearly achieving an overall majority, Ahern’s epitaphs are being written and his government is severely undermined.