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Poland 1968: The Death of Jewish Culminor parties.
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Worldwide: European Parliament Sur-
Mobilise: Politics of OPZZ • Tatiana renders to Corporate Pressure - appro-
Zhurzhenko - Ukrainian Women in the ving virtually unlimited patenting of animals and plants • Martin Khor notes the Coal Mining Industry in Ukraine • that the celebration of 50 years of free trade in Geneva had to be protected by security forces • Canadian Green Party
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Labour: Stephen Thiele wonders how
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Privatization - Carmelo Ruiz • R. Burke reviews Kim Scipes' book KMU: Genuine
Unionism in the Philippines
•Vladimir Bilenkin translates documents from the Samara strike committee - privatization • What Kind of Labor Party
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Biodevastation dossier: In an open letter to the Grameen Bank, Vandana Shiva says that support of patented seeds would help enslave poor farmers •
George Monbiot believes that modern- day famines are caused by deficiencies in distribution • African Scientists Condemn Monsanto's Tactics, and oppose claims that genetic engineering is necessary to feed the world • Greenpeace reports that transgenic potatoes were a financial disaster for farmers in the former soviet Republic of Georgia •
Monsanto vs. the First Amendment •
Witoon Lianchamroon & Piengporn
Panutampon explain how patenting rice is plundering from the poor of Thailand • and a range of other articles on the patenting of plants and genetically
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