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As food prices
soar world-wide it was reported recently on the BBC that ‘Ethiopia has launched an urgent
appeal to international donors for more than $300m (£154m) of emergency aid’. According the news item, ‘a
total of 4.6 million people are now thought to need food aid’.

Immigration News Briefs October 5, 2008
1. Another Construction Raid in Hawai’i
2. Hawai’i: Workers Released Under Plea Bargain
3. Raid at Louisiana Cement Plant?
4. Texas Donut Company Pleads Guilty
5. More “Fugitive” Raids: CA, PA, DE, NJ, NY, FL, OK
1. ANOTHER CONSTRUCTION RAID IN HAWAI’I
On Sept. 22, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents arrested 21 workers at the [...]

This article was shared with Kasama by A World to Win News Service.
China’s toxic dairies: why capitalism can’t afford the milk of human kindness
6 October 2008. A World to Win News Service. Tainted milk products from China are turning up throughout the world because China is so much at the core of capitalist production worldwide. [...]

The Tory victories in the local elections on May 1st mean that the
Conservatives will almost certainly go on to win the next general election and
form the next government. Theoretically the Labour leadership could turn the
situation round, but they seem incapable of changing their disastrous course.
New Labour is in meltdown.

As news reached us of Miriam’s death, there is no better way to remember this great voice of resistance than to share her songs. 

“Soweto Blues” hailing the uprising of South Africa’s brave youth.

A video obituary:

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Yesterday, on the Leher News Hour, the questions was posed: Is capitalism dead?
New York Times economic columnist Paul Krugman replied:
“…the engine is mostly fine, but there’s one part that’s malfunctioning. And that’s what’s happening now. It’s not that capitalism is dead. It’s not that the whole American system is dead, but this financial thing that we’ve [...]

29 September 2008. A World to Win News Service.
“27 August, 10 am: I was talking to one of my fellow inmates in section 5. As we were exchanging the latest prison news, the Pasdar (a member of the Khomeini regime’s so-called Revolutionary Guards, the Pasdaran) responsible for our section came in and called out the [...]

Kasama received the following from AWTW news service.
8 December 2008. A World to Win News Service. Waltz with Bashir is an important film because it ’s so powerful. Its power comes from the filmmaker’s unusual choices regarding form and viewpoint, so that the way the story is told conveys its content in parallel with – [...]

Now a policy of wage restraint during a serious financial crisis is, sooner or later a finished recipe for an intensification of the class struggle in Britain. Already the strike figures for this year - before the recent financial meltdown - have outstripped last year's figures