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World Bank in about face on worker rights
May 3, 2009WASHINGTON, Apr 30 (IPS) - The World Bank is dropping an index scored for undermining worker rights from its flagship effort to promote business-led economic growth in emerging, developing, and former Soviet countries. The move, announced...
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Cuba: The unalienable decision to build socialism
May 2, 2009Text of the speech given by Salvador Valdés Mesa, CTC general secretary at the central event for May Day in the Plaza de la Revolución Comrades from the Party, state, and government leadership, Distinguished guests, Workers;...
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WHO: Pigs don’t cause ‘swine flu’
May 2, 2009The World Health Organisation said on Thursday it will stop using the term 'swine flu' after Egypt began slaughtering thousands of pigs.
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The day for the poor of the world
May 2, 2009Original source: Cuba.cu May 1 is International Workers' Day. Karl Marx called to unity: 'Workers of the world unite', although many of the poor were not workers. Lenin, who was even more far-reaching, made a call...
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Health care workers at risk as swine flu spreads
May 2, 2009Original source: AFL-CIO Now Blog Yesterday, the World Health Organization (WHO) raised the threat of widespread human infection from the outbreak of swine flu to its second-highest level. The outbreak of swine flu originated in Mexico...
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