Australia
Australia: Succesful solidarity meeting against racism
"Stand against racism, unite people to fight the conditions that breed racism"
Month: February 2006
Australia
Australia: First Socialist Party Summer School a big success
Lively discussions on union rights, new workers’ party, Malaysia, Aboriginal rights…
Haiti
Haiti: Chaotic elections
Slum poor ‘candidate’ Rene Preval favourite to win
Historia
Los antiguos partidos trabajadores: Una nueva izquierda revolucionaria
Sacando las lecciones del fracaso de la izquierda reformista y la construcción de nuevos partidos socialistas
Italy
Italy: Drama over metal mechanics’ national agreement
Deal finally signed after 13 months of negotiation and 60 hours’ of strike action.
Ireland North
Northern Ireland: Belfast postal workers on unofficial strike
Second week of industrial action against bosses’ bullying
Culture
culture: Worldwide “cartoon” uproar
Build a united workers’ movement to fight divisions and capitalism
Pakistan
Pakistan: Fourteen hundred daily-waged Postal workers sacked
Trade union activists victimized
Kashmir
Kashmir: Workers commemorate union leader killed in last October’s earthquake
“Nazir Gardazi struggled for his class”
Venezuela
Venezuela: Women occupy Caracas factory
For the past 6 weeks, a group of around 40 women have led a struggle for jobs and pay at the Selfex factory in the south east of Caracas.