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

  Portugal: Lisbon council workers strike in defence of working conditions

  August 22, 2002 CWI

  About 300 workers from the Municipal Department of Mechanical Maintenance (DRMM) in Lisbon, who ensure the maintenance of municipal vehicles, have been on an overtime hours (’extraordinary hours’) strike, since last Monday.

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  Climate Change & Environment

  Environment: Earth Summit – Capitalism is unsustainable

  August 20, 2002 Manny Thain, Socialist Party, England and Wales

  WORLD ’LEADERS’ are preparing a global publicity stunt – the World Summit on Environment and Development. From 26 August to 4 September, 65,000 delegates from 174 countries will descend on Johannesburg, South Africa. Security will [...]

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  Climate Change & Environment

  Environment: Planning green growth

  August 19, 2002 Pete Dickenson

  Tens of thousands of delegates will spend hundreds of millions of dollars junketing at the second UN summit on sustainable development in Johannesburg South Africa, one of the biggest international conferences ever held.

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  Britain

  Britain: Food poisoned by big business

  August 16, 2002 By Amrita Huggins,

  New figures published last month by the Pesticides Residue Committee (PRC) for the British government have raised serious concerns over the safety of fresh fruit and vegetables, both imported and UK grown produce. The government [...]

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  Netherlands

  Netherlands: New coalition government faces instability and infighting

  August 15, 2002 Ron Blom, Amsterdam,

  Months after the Dutch general elections, which saw dramatic gains for the populist right wing Lijst Pim Fortuyn (LPF), a new coalition government has finally been formed. The administration’s proposed policies are clearly to the [...]