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World conference hits war, capitalist crisis
July 18, 2003Communist & Workers’ parties meet in Athens ATHENS, Greece – Meeting in the wake of the U.S. military invasion and occupation of Iraq, but bolstered by the unprecedented global peace upsurge that resisted the war, representatives...
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July 18, 2003Kenya: ‘Bush seriously out of touch’ President Bush’s African visit “dramatizes that Mr. Bush, and perhaps the U.S., is seriously out of touch with what Africa thinks of its problems and how it proposes to solve...
Read moreU.S. sets up Iraqi governing council
July 18, 2003News Analysis Reversing its previous refusal to cede any power to Iraqi groups, the U.S. – with its imperial occupation of Iraq going very badly – has now acceded to the formation of an Iraqi “governing...
Read moreDemands for Barghoutis release grows
July 18, 2003Demands are growing to release Palestinian legislator Marwan Barghouti, and some 6,500 other Palestinian prisoners, as part of the “road map” peace negotiations. Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas warned that without a large-scale prisoner release, the...
Read moreCoup supporter shuts down community TV
July 18, 2003Catia TV – Venezuela’s longest-running community television station – was shut down last week by Caracas Mayor Alfredo Peña. Peña was one of the chief supporters of the failed April 2002 coup d’etat against democratically-elected Venezuelan...
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