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  Ireland North

  Ireland North: Working class united by strike action

  August 3, 2002 Gary Mulcahy, Belfast

  THOUSANDS OF council workers, health and education workers joined the 17 July strike throughout Northern Ireland, picketing council offices, education and health boards, leisure centres and police stations.

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  Italy

  Italy: Genova Libera

  July 26, 2002 Simon Donovan, Socialist Party (England and Wales)

  With a chant of  ’Genoa Libera’ 150,000 youth and young workers marched through the streets of Genova on Saturday. They marched to commemorate the year since the G8 summit which saw a police riot and [...]

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  South Africa

  South Africa: Cosatu call two day general strike as SAMWU’S mass action breathes life into anti-privatisation campaign.

  July 23, 2002 Weizmann Hamilton, Democratic Socialist Movement, South Africa, 23 July 2002

  Cosatu’s announcement yesterday that it has lifted the suspension on the anti-privatisation programme and will be calling a two-day general strike on the 1st and 2nd October, is a direct result of the impact of [...]

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  Science & Technology

  AIDS pandemic: Pharmaceutical giants obstruct progress

  July 21, 2002 Roger Shrives. This article first appeared in The Socialist.

  AS 15,000 delegates attended the International Aids Conference in Barcelona, the United Nations estimates that 68 million people could die of the Aids disease by 2020.

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  Kazakhstan

  Kazakhstan: Protest at a new wave of repression

  July 20, 2002 CWI Kazakhstan

  There has been a big stepping up of repression against the Workers Movement of Kazakhstan, a major working-class organisation. Criminal charges have been lodged against four members of its executive Saken and Ramil Dzhunosov, Ramil [...]