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Italy

Millions rally against Berlusconi

THREE million people, workers, youth, those in insecure employment, students, pensioners, immigrants, descended on Rome on Saturday March 23, 2002 for the biggest demonstration in the history of the Italian Republic.

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Review

Making peace with America

Two Hours Which Shook the World, by Fred Halliday, Saqi books, London 2002, £12.95.

Subtitled "September 11, Causes and Consequences" Fred Halliday’s book says little about the "two hours which shook the world", but is in fact an assessment of the international political factors which gave rise to the attack, notably the questions of Islamic fundamentalism, globalisation and United States capitalism.

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Russia

Signs of change

The economic situation in Russia in 2000-2001

There is nothing surprising in the fact that the economic revival in Russia which began in late 1998 is now giving way to stagnation. Even when the recovery was only just beginning, independent experts were pretty accurate in their predictions of how long it would last: if Russia’s economy was going to develop by inertia, then the factors which brought about the economic upswing would play themselves out in about two to two-and-a-half years. And that’s exactly what happened.

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