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United we stand, divided we fall
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As a partial successor to the post-war Marshall Plan, USAid is not simply a humanitarian aid programme, but is involved in projecting US power as an instrument of foreign policy, argues NICK WRIGHT
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Furious campaigners claim that Oxford University is colluding with the council to squander £10m of public funds for a new bridge that wrecks a nature reserve, reports BERNY TORRE
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Statement from the South African Communist Party
ONE hundred and twenty five years ago this weekend, the General Federation of Trade Unions (GFTU) held its founding conference.
Delegates from 44 unions, representing between them 310,437 members came together to build an industrial federation capable of taking on the might of the employers’ combinations.
The unions represented included the Amalgamated Society of Engineers; the National Union of Boot and Shoe Operatives; the National Union of Gasworkers and General Labourers; The Dock, Warf, Riverside and General Workers’ Union and many others.
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