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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 [...]

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  Italy

  Italy: General strike – ‘Lotta per il socialismo’

  October 26, 2002 By Fabrizio Cucchi

  Last week’s general strike in Florence was very successful, with many factories practically empty. Local transport was on strike in the afternoon, when nearly everything stopped.