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International notes

February 6, 2004

Canada: Wal-Mart workers organize Workers at the Wal-Mart store in Jonquiere, Quebec, are battling to make their store the retail giant’s first unionized outlet in North America. The United Food and Commercial Workers Union says more...

Northern Ireland Racism spiraling out of control

February 6, 2004

News Analysis “Race crime shock – attacks now averaging nearly one a day.” This front-page headline in the Belfast Telegraph sent shivers down many observers’ spines last month. It came just a few days after a...

Bush runs for cover on WMD lies

February 6, 2004 By Susan Webb

Following the declaration by President Bush’s chief U.S. weapons hunter David Kay that Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction prior to the U.S. invasion – the administration’s stated reason for the Iraq war – Bush’s...

Letter from Brazil: One year of Lula

January 30, 2004 By Gary Dotterman

It is one year since Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, the former metalworker and leader of Brazil’s left-wing Workers Party, was elected president of the country. I am in Rio de Janeiro, trying to find out...

International notes

January 30, 2004

U.K.: Childcare key to overcoming poverty A report released Jan. 25 by the Trades Union Congress and Daycare Trust says the lack of affordable childcare is trapping many larger families in a life of low income...