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  Britain

  Obituary: Joan Littlewood. British theatre’s radical innovator

  September 26, 2002 Niall Mulholland. 25 September 2002

  Joan Littlewood, the radical theatre innovator who transformed British drama in the 1950s and 1960s, died on 20 September, aged 87.

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  Comment & Analysis

  Review: The real rogue state. An alternative dossier on US imperialism

  September 26, 2002 John Sharpe, from The Socialist, paper of the Socialist Party, England and Wales section of the CWI.

  BLAIR CLAIMS that his "dossier" on Iraq justifies the US and Britain going to war and forcing a ’regime change’. "Rogue State", William Blum, is a "dossier" – with detailed references, many from official sources [...]

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  South Africa

  South Africa: Two day general strike set for October

  September 25, 2002 Issued by the Democratic Socialist Movement, September 2002

  The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) has called a two-day general strike for 1-2 October, to protest against the ANC government’s privatisation programme.

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

  Russia: Socialist and gay rights activist faces political repression and huge legal fine

  September 24, 2002 Rob Jones, Moscow 24 September 2002

  A young member of Socialist Resistance (the CWI section in the CIS), Sergei Kozlovskii, has been brought to court and sued for the sum of 50,000 rubles (almost 2,000 euros) by Tamara Dadianova, who is [...]

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  Germany

  Germany: Election results herald time for a new workers’ party

  September 23, 2002 Sascha Stanicic, Berlin, 23 September 2002

  "Time for a change in Germany", was the title of last week’s right wing magazine, The Economist (London). This reflected the wish of the international and German capitalists for a new coalition government of the [...]