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Inside sick stock markets
Banking giant Lehman Brothers's collapse signaled a Wall Street financial meltdown, causing panic in speculative finance markets across the globe. Bottom: Traders at the Wall Street Stock Exchange during the collapse of Lehman Brothers Holdings. (Photograph: Rex Features) Right: Traders on the floor of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on September 16. (AFP photo)

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Struggle in the street: Kowloon workers on strike

Laid-off workers of Kowloon House West Ave. branch have put up a picketline infront of the restaurant to protest against the mass lay-off and union busting. Since then, sales have gone down to 40 percent of the average daily sales. The labor dispute exhibits the basic contradiction between workers and capitalists in a capitalist economy. Top: Students and workers barricade the entrance to the parking lot of Kowloon House. Middle: Workers and their families sleep in the makeshift tents in front of the restaurant. Bottom: UP students dicourage customers and passing motorists from eating in Kowloon. (Photos by Tine Sabillo)

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Tax burden in the semi-colony
Various sectors call for the scrapping of VAT on oil in the context of worsening economic standards. Recently, the Arroyo regime is pushing for two tax reform bills in Congress as a response to the global financial crisis - an expected move by a government that is subservient to the neoliberal policies of World Bank and International Monetary Fund. (Photos by Pinoy Weekly Online)

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