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  Afghanistan

  Afghanistan: Innocent Afghans killed by US ‘friendly fire’

  July 6, 2002 From The Socialist

  "THE ENEMY doesn’t value human life", said George Bush when launching his "war against terrorism". Neither it seems do his troops after they bombed and blasted a collection of villages in Afghanistan killing up to [...]

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  Kashmir

  Kashmir: The roots of the crisis

  July 5, 2002 By Kevin Simpson, CWI

  Kashmir has been fought over by India and Pakistan ever since British imperialism’s divide-and-rule partition of the subcontinent in 1947. The Kashmiri people have been brutally oppressed, denied democracy and self-determination, and suffered two wars [...]

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  Italy

  Italy: Crisis at Fiat

  July 5, 2002 Clare Doyle, CWI, 2 July 2002.

  The crisis surrounding Mirafiori car plant and the whole Fiat Empire is sending shockwaves through Italian society. In America they say, “What’s good for General Motors is good for the USA”. In Italy the same [...]

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  World Economy

  World Economy: WorldCom fraud – Capitalism is a bankrupt system

  July 4, 2002 Editorial from The Socialist

  THE US, the most powerful economy in the world, responsible for a third of world output, is reeling with shock. This time there are no foreign terrorists who can be held responsible for disaster striking. [...]

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  ARCHIVE | Socialist Alternative was the CWI section in the USA until 2019

  US: What happened to the Labor Party

  July 2, 2002 Ramy Khalil, ATU Local 587

  From July 25-28th the Labor Party is holding its third national convention in Washington DC. However, there is a sharp contrast between the lack of interest in this convention compared with the excitement of the [...]