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The Russian government announced last month that it would sell minority stakes in 11 state-owned companies.

Royal Mail (RM) has outlined plans to axe mail centres up and down the country.

This resolution on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the split between the International Committee of the Fourth International and the British Workers Revolutionary Party was passed unanimously by the first regular National Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US), held from August 11-15, 2010.

This Week in History provides brief synopses of important historical events whose anniversaries fall this week.

Negotiations between three key independents and the Liberal and Labor Party leaderships on the composition of the government begin today, with the outcome expected to be decided by the end of the week, after the poll is declared.

Leaks over the past week have revealed that members of the Afghan government headed by President Hamid Karzai are paid agents of the CIA.

The bodies of 72 undocumented immigrants were found in a ranch in northern Mexico by Mexican marines after a gun battle with drug traffickers on August 25.

The Washington rally organized by right-wing Fox News TV personality Glenn Beck offered a twisted mix of religion, potted American history and the glorification of militarism under the banner of “restoring honor” to the USA.

The floods in Pakistan are a calamity of monumental dimensions. Yet for the rival national bourgeoisies of Pakistan and India, it is business as usual.

The Commerce Department on Friday sharply cut its estimate of US economic growth in the second quarter of 2010.

With the opening of a new front in Yemen for the CIA’s drone “targeted killing” program, the Obama administration is expanding the role played by both the agency and US military Special Operations forces as a global Murder Incorporated.

On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina made landfall on the Gulf Coast of the United States. The world looked on in horror as the city of New Orleans was submerged, killing 1,800 and trapping thousands of poor residents for days without emergency provisions or rescue.

Japan is heading for new political turmoil after key powerbroker Ichiro Ozawa announced a bid on Thursday to oust Naoto Kan as prime minister.

The Murdoch press has threatened three independents with political oblivion if they fail to back an Abbott-led minority government.

Whatever form India’s caste census ultimately takes, the mounting of a caste-based census is a retrograde and reactionary step. It will contribute to the further caste-ization of Indian politics and life, serving to split the working class and oppressed toilers on caste lines.

With the Conservative/Liberal Democrat government planning the most drastic attacks on the working class since the 1930s, the Trades Union Congress (TUC) is working to ensure they are imposed without opposition.

Members of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, who face massive concession demands, held a free public concert Thursday to build community support

In a major environmental scandal, workers at a factory In the German city of Dortmund were continually exposed to extremely high doses of poisonous chemicals.

The August 28 “March for Jobs, Justice and Peace” is a fraud perpetrated against the people of Detroit, aimed at channeling growing anger over the social and economic crisis behind those chiefly responsible for the devastation of the city.