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World Bank Condemns Its Own Poverty Initiative

Drew Povey The World Bank accepts that social support is needed, at least for the very poor, with the introduction its free market neoliberal reforms. The World Bank has congratulated the Tinubu administration for ending fuel subsidy and allowing the exchange rate for the naira...

Iva Valley Coal Miners’ Struggles of 1949 – strike and massacre

Izielen Agbon February 28, 2026 The Iva Valley massacre of November 1949 arose from a rising wave of class struggles from the end of the World War in 1945.  These were not restricted to the mines and included the 1945General Strike (lasting 45 days from June 22...
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World Bank Condemns Its Own Poverty Initiative

Drew Povey The World Bank accepts that social support is needed, at least for the...

Iva Valley Coal Miners’ Struggles of 1949 – strike and massacre

Izielen Agbon February 28, 2026 The Iva Valley massacre of November 1949 arose from a rising...

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