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...over unemployment and official corruption, thousands of Greeks smashed storefront windows and cars as union and transit workers staged a national strike. "It's very simple: we want the government to fall," a member of the Socialist Workers Party said on Dec. 9 as 10,000 people marched on Parliament...
...Ottawa A New Liberal Leader In Canadian politics' latest shake-up, the opposition Liberal Party has replaced leader Stéphane Dion with former academic Michael Ignatieff a week after Prime Minister Stephen Harper suspended Parliament until January to avoid a no-confidence vote. Many felt that Dion's flubs hurt the opposition's power-grab attempt...
Surprisingly, the leaders of the very movement Jaruzelski crushed agree--and have emerged among his staunchest defenders. Former activist Kazimierz Kutz, now a member of parliament, says Jaruzelski's actions allowed moderates on both sides to prevail, eventually leading to the Round Table talks that brought a peaceful end to Poland's communist regime in 1989. Even Lech Walesa, the legendary Solidarity leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner who was interned for almost a year in the clampdown, has said that Jaruzelski would have been considered a "great patriot" had he lived in different times and that the trial...
Ignatieff, who had served as a member of the Canadian parliament, replaces Stéphane Dion as party leader after Bob Rae, the only remaining candidate in the leadership race and close friend of Ignatieff, dropped out of the contest on Tuesday...
...think he’s just become more familiar. I mean, before he got elected in 2006 [to Parliament], he was only in Canada to get a cup of coffee,†said Nelson Wiseman, an associate professor of political science at the University of Toronto...