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  Italy

  Italy: Union leaders’ betrayal triggers workers’ protests

  July 8, 2002 Clare Doyle, CWI, 8 July 2002.

  The signing last Friday afternoon of a deal with the government and employers by the leaders of the two smaller trade union federations in Italy – the Uil and Cisl – has sparked a new [...]

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  Canada

  Canada: Toronto municipal workers’ against privatisation

  July 8, 2002 Wendy Forrest, Toronto, 7 July 2002.

  Over 45,000 municipal workers from two of the largest locals of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) are on strike.

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  Argentina

  Argentina: New crisis as cops kill protesters

  July 7, 2002 From Socialist

  THOUSANDS OF Argentinians marched on the National Congress building in Buenos Aires on 28 June demanding the resignation of caretaker president Eduardo Duhalde.

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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 [...]