GLW issue 501, published 2002-07-24.

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RUSSIA: Capitalism loses its shine

BY BORIS KAGARLITSKY MOSCOW — For 10 years now, a chorus of politicians, journalists and sociologists has been telling the Russian people a story as simple and appealing as Little Red Riding Hood. It goes like this: society was deformed by

Pathway to poverty: the truth about 'new apprenticeships'

BY ANDREW HALL CANBERRA — Activists from the Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) rank-and-file group, Members First, are campaigning against the latest tactic in the federal government's war on workers: using the federal government's New

Protesters oppose irradiation plant

BY LEONIE EASTMENT BRISBANE — Since June 13, protesters have maintained a 24-hour protest camp outside the Narangba site that Steritech proposes to build a food irradiation plant upon. Although the protesters managed to delay

'This commission is a political witch-hunt'

PERTH — [This is an abridged version of a speech by Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU) WA secretary KEVIN REYNOLDS to a Socialist Alliance-organised trade union seminar in Perth on July 6.] The Royal Commission into the
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