GLW issue 499, published 2002-07-10.

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SOUTH AFRICA: Municipal workers strike for living wage

BY ROGER RONNIE More than 100,000 municipal workers across South Africa — members of the militant South African Municipal Workers Union (SAMWU) — began a national strike on July 2. Tens of thousands have marched in demonstrations in major

GREECE: General strike signals radicalisation

BY JAMES VASSILOPOULOS On June 18, Greek workers paralysed the country with a massive general strike against a government attempt to increase the age of retirement and reduce pensions. This militant action underscores the radicalisation that is

and ain't i a woman?: More to history than white men

and ain't i a woman?: More to history than white men There is much more to Australian history than white men. Women fought for (and in many cases won) equality, peace and rights for Indigenous Australians, the peoples of the Third World and

Refugee breakouts: the best way to end detention?

BY ARUN PRADHAN It is not difficult to understand the motives of people who want to break refugees out of the desert prison at Woomera — or any other refugee prison. But is it the way we'll force the government to abandon its racist
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