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		<title>China&#8217;s achievement is literally the greatest in world economic history</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 10:59:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By John Ross, Visiting Professor at Antai College of Economics and Management, Jiao Tong University, Shanghai Economic development’s purpose is to improve the conditions of human beings. Robert Lucas put it eloquently, in frequently quoted words, examining the consequences of different rates of economic growth: ‘I do not see how one can look at these [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=actofdefiance.wordpress.com&amp;blog=23809552&amp;post=1233&amp;subd=actofdefiance&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Regarding the expressions of solidarity with the Greek People</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 10:23:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently, demonstrations have been held in many countries across the world under the “umbrella” of slogans of “solidarity with Greece” and “we are all Greeks”. Working class and popular solidarity are powerful weapons in the struggle of the peoples. But the workers must deal with any attempt to mislead them. Which Greece needs solidarity? The [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=actofdefiance.wordpress.com&amp;blog=23809552&amp;post=1230&amp;subd=actofdefiance&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Big Brother aims to screen all online activity in UK</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2012 08:42:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[. (AFP Photo / Thomas Coex) British security agencies are pushing for a law, which would allow vast amount of private data to be collected and stored, according to media reports. Big Brother will know who you call to, what sites you surf and how you play video games. The government wants details about text [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=actofdefiance.wordpress.com&amp;blog=23809552&amp;post=1226&amp;subd=actofdefiance&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The proletarianisation of the ‘squeezed middle’</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Feb 2012 08:58:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[RESPECTABLE, stable, well-paid families in decent homes throughout the western world are living in terror of the nightmare that is striking them down in growing numbers, as the effects of the global financial crisis hit home. These are people who thought themselves secure. They paid into pension schemes, made wise career choices, worked hard, did [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=actofdefiance.wordpress.com&amp;blog=23809552&amp;post=1223&amp;subd=actofdefiance&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Firefighters join pensions battle</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Feb 2012 08:52:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Daphne Liddle THE FIRE Brigades Union last week joined other major public sector unions who are preparing for another one-day strike on 28th March. The unions so far committed to action in March are the civil service union PCS, the National Union of Teachers and the lecturers’ union UCU. The giant union Unite is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=actofdefiance.wordpress.com&amp;blog=23809552&amp;post=1221&amp;subd=actofdefiance&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Anger in Athens at savage new cuts</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Feb 2012 08:49:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by our European Affairs correspondent MOUNTING anger against savage cuts erupted into violence on the streets of Athens last weekend as riot police advanced to break up demonstrators on the eve of the parliamentary vote to accept the latest European Union and IMF austerity demands. Among the protesters were renowned composer Mikis Theodorakis, 86, and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=actofdefiance.wordpress.com&amp;blog=23809552&amp;post=1219&amp;subd=actofdefiance&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Response to Tariq Ali’s incorrect statements about Syria</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2012 17:14:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Carlos Martinez (Agent of Change) Tariq Ali has made a number of incorrect and unjustifiable statements in his recent interview on Russia Today regarding Syria. Ali is a much-celebrated icon of the British left; he is a talented orator and writer, and often says quite good things. Therefore his comments are particularly dangerous, as [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=actofdefiance.wordpress.com&amp;blog=23809552&amp;post=1216&amp;subd=actofdefiance&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Al-Qaeda joins ranks of Syrian revolt backers</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Feb 2012 11:15:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Having re-established their friendship and cooperation in Libya, Al-Qaeda is backing the US campaign to oust the government in Syria. &#8211; AoD The leader of Al-Qaeda has voiced his support for the Syrian uprising. He called on Muslims to join the opposition in Syria in their drive to oust President Bashar Assad. ­In an eight-minute [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=actofdefiance.wordpress.com&amp;blog=23809552&amp;post=1211&amp;subd=actofdefiance&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Health Bill seriously unwell</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 10:06:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Daphne Liddle ANDREW LANSLEY’S flagship Health and Social Care Bill, which would turn the NHS into a privately run, two-tier service, is back in Parliament and about to be debated by the House of Lords. It has acquired over 1,000 amendments since it was paused last year for a cosmetic rethink but opposition to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=actofdefiance.wordpress.com&amp;blog=23809552&amp;post=1206&amp;subd=actofdefiance&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Imperialists thwarted</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 10:03:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[RUSSIA and People’s China stopped the imperialists in their tracks at the United Nations last week with a veto over Syria that enraged Anglo-American imperialism and the rest of the Nato pack. For the second time in six months Russia and China blocked imperialist attempts to bulldoze a resolution through the UN Security Council that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=actofdefiance.wordpress.com&amp;blog=23809552&amp;post=1204&amp;subd=actofdefiance&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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