Socialist Resistance

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Hong Kong

Socialist Resistance no31  |  page 2

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over two days of demonstrations against the World Trade Organisation talks being held in Hong Kong.

The protesters, which included hundreds of South Korean farmers, got within several hundred metres of the event where large numbers were arrested. As we go to press, Hong Kong is still holding fourteen South Korean protesters to whom they have denied bail. New York City The Transport Workers Union (TWU) went on a 3-day strike, largely over the issue of pensions, causing major disruption throughout the city right before the Christmas holiday. The parent union refused to support the action and the TWU Local 100 has been fined $1 million with jail time initially threatened for its leaders. Individual workers also must now face fines of two days pay for every day on strike.

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Roger Toussaint, president of New York's Transport Workers Union Local 100, calling off

the three-day strike by 33,000 members, with

union leaders facing mounting fines and possible jail terms Yolo County, California Republican politicians, parents and students, have filed a lawsuit claiming it unfair that "illegal" local California students receive tuition that out-of-state US citizens supposThey are demanding the state refund 60,000 out-of-state college students for tuition fees that they would not have paid if they

What they fail to point out is that in order to qualify, an undocumented student must have spent 3 years in a California high school, graduated and be in the process of obtaining "legal" status whereas an out-of-state student can obtain a $10,000 drop in tuition after living in California for just one year.