Socialist Resistance

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Socialist Resistance no31  |  page 2-3

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cola drinks in her shop. Rome ited rights to abortion. Colombo choice Coca-Cola was fined £40 million by the Mexican government for "monopolistic practices" after small shop owner Raquel Chavez took Coke to court and won.

The company had threatened to bar her from selling their product alongside other A violent attack is under way in Italy against the law n194, which allows women some limOn January 14, 2006, in squares and streets all over Italy there will be demonstration in support of the 194 and the right of women to freedom and self-determination.

There will also be international solidarity actions of Italian and other women on that day including in Manchester November's presidential election resulted in victory for hardline Sinhala chauvinist Mahinda Rajapakse, who promised to 'review' the peace process with the Tamil Tiger rebels.

His rival, opposition leader Ranil Wickramasinghe, was more favoured in the West because of his stress on hard line neoliberalism. Both represented an unsavoury