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  Kashmir

  Kashmir: Anti-war demo attacked by Mujahadeen fighters

  June 8, 2002 CWI

  An anti-war demonstration of hundreds organised by socialist and left activists in the Jammu and Kashmir National Awami Party (NAP) and National Student Federation (NSF) was attacked by members of the reactionary Islamic Hizb-Ul Mujahadeen [...]

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  Comment & Analysis

  Review: Islam – a thousand years of faith and power, by Jonathan Bloom and Sheila Blair

  June 6, 2002 6 June 2002

  ISLAM IS the fastest growing religion in the US and rivals Christianity worldwide: "’They’ are now ’us’," is how Jonathan Bloom and Sheila Blair put it. They call for a greater understanding of Islam in [...]

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  Comment & Analysis

  Review: Senoir Service, by Carlo Feltrinelli

  June 6, 2002 Niall Mulholland.

  Amid the recent upturn in class struggle in Italy, and the alleged reappearance of the Red Brigades armed campaign earlier this year, the recent publication on the life of Giangiacomo Feltrinelli could hardly be timelier. [...]

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  Britain

  Britain: Royal Golden Jubilee

  June 6, 2002 This article first appeared in The Socialist, paper of  the England and Wales section of the CWI.

  THIS WEEKEND’S Golden Jubilee celebrations survived a crisis – Buckingham Palace started burning down. After the public were evacuated and firefighters efficiently got the blaze under control, TV commentators asked the question on everyone’s lips: [...]

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  Comment & Analysis

  Review: The Silent Takeover – Global Capitalism and the Death of Democracy by Noreena Hertz

  June 5, 2002 This artice first appeared in the May 2002 issue of Socialism Today, monthly magazine of the Socialist Party (England and Wales)

  “HOW COULD IT be”, ponders Noreena Hertz in the opening pages, “that ten years after landing in Leningrad to set up Russia’s first stock exchange – a travelling saleswoman with capitalism in my briefcase – [...]