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  Argentina

  Argentina: Workers rise, Presidents fall

  January 19, 2002 Tony Saunois, CWI

  Argentina’s economic collapse has sparked a colossal movement. Presidents count their terms in days, sometimes hours, as worker and middle-class pressure forces them out.

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  Nigeria

  Nigeria: General strike – call for protests

  January 18, 2002 Committee for a Workers’ International, PO Box 3688, London, E11 1YE.

  The indefinite general strike called by the Nigerian Labour Congress against the recent fuel price hike announced by the Obasanjo regime has been suspended after two days. The reason given by the NLC leadership was [...]

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  Ireland North

  Ireland North: School students against sectarianism. Press release

  January 18, 2002 Socialist Party Ireland

  At a special open meeting to be held Thursday evening, school students from both communities will launch a new campaign to combat sectarianism and to organise a school students strike to mobilise a mass turnout [...]

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  Ireland North

  Ireland North: School Students United Against Sectarianism

  January 18, 2002 Article from the Voice, paper of the Socialist Party, Ireland

  In response to the sectarian killing of 20 year-old postal worker Daniel McColgan and the sectarian attacks and threats on school students, Socialist Youth has set up School Students United Against Sectarianism.

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  Nigeria

  Nigeria: Paralysed by General strike

  January 17, 2002 Segun Sango, General Secretary DSM, Lagos.

  Nigeria has been paralysed by a general strike called by the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC, the country’s main trade union federation).