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  USA

  US: Impending war on Iraq. Will Bush launch a war on Iraq?

  September 6, 2002 Peter Taaffe, general secretary, Socialist Party

  A THOUSAND people polled by The History Channel named the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon a year ago on 11 September as "the most memorable event in world history". This is [...]

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  South Africa

  South Africa: Powell’s humiliation closes Earth Summit Fiasco

  September 5, 2002 Weizmann Hamilton, Johannesburg, 4 September 2002

  The last day of the Earth Summit completed the humiliation of the ANC government in what it had hoped would be its finest hour. ‘Civil society’ delegates walked out in disgust, Colin Powell was shouted down [...]

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  South Africa

  South Africa: Johannesburg Earth Summit

  September 3, 2002 Weizmann Hamilton, South Africa

  ANC government harassment and sabotage cannot stop 30,000 marching. On Saturday 31 August, anti-globalisation activists were joined by thousands of workers, the unemployed and landless, who marched from the poor township of Alexandra outside Johannesburg [...]

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  History & Anniversaries

  History: James Connolly voted onto 100 “Greatest” people

  August 31, 2002 Niall Mulholland, CWI

  James Connolly (1868-1916), the Irish socialist revolutionary, Marxist thinker and working class martyr, has been included amongst ’100 Greatest Britons’ in a BBC online poll, the results of which were published recently.

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  Theory & Marxism

  Theory: Socialism – the alternative

  August 30, 2002 Ramy Khali, US

  Our society has an obscene gulf between rich and poor. The private assets of the 200 richest people are more than the combined incomes of the poorest 2.4 billion people – almost half the world’s [...]