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      • Release the Iranian detainees now!
      • Taking action and winning immigration victories
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      • Progressive distribution workers – daring to struggle, daring to win
      • Youth pay revolt heats up
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      • Ireland: revolution and betrayal, 1916 to today
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      • Civil War breaks out in the Palestinian Territories
      • Hands off Iran, freedom for the Kurds
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      • Nuke free New Zealand: The real heroes
      • The escalating history of Labour Party conference protest
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      • Pacific Forum 2007: imperialism, hypocrisy and lies
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