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| Peru
Elections in Peru ,
The first round of the Peruvian presidential elections on Sunday April 8, 2001 produced a major surprise - Wall Street’s favoured candidate, Lourdes Flores, came third and was eliminated from the contest. The second round [on June 3] will now be contested between Alexander Toledo (who scored 36.46%) and Alán García, the candidate of the APRA party, who was president from 1985 to 1990, who secured 26% of the vote. -> read article... |
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| Argentina
The angry voteOctober’s mid-term elections in Argentina marked a significant turn in one of the deepest crises the country has ever faced. After a growing wave of increasingly militant social struggles, and with the prospect of total financial meltdown lurking just around the corner, everyone expected the ruling Alliance parties to take a beating at the polls. -> read article... |
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| Globalisation
The anti-capitalist movement and the revolutionary leftIn the following article, which has been shortened for space reasons, Alex Callinicos, a leader of Britain’s Socialist Workers Party, explains his party’s viewpoint on the new world situation. -> read article... |