Italy
Italy: Explosion of protest at expansion of US base
On Tuesday, 16 January, five thousand people demonstrated and blocked the railway station at Vicenza in north-eastern Italy.
Month: January 2007
Iraq
Iraq: Bush continues his dangerous blunder
"The most dangerous foreign policy blunder in this country since Vietnam" were the words Chuck Hagel, a Vietnam war veteran used to describe Bush’s latest revised Iraq strategy. Hagel, however, is not only a Vietnam […]
Pakistan
Pakistan: Sindh teachers win legal battle against ban on union
Court reinstates sacked teachers’ union leaders
Norway
Norway: Protests against health care cuts
‘Red-Green’ government feels working people’s anger
Kashmir
Kashmir: Workers’ affected by 2005 earthquake strike and protest
Demands for decent compensation and living conditions
Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka: Government blamed for violent attack on anti-war rally organisers
Please draw up protests on the basis of the resolution for MPs (see below)
Venezuela
Venezuela: ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ by Tariq Ali
There is great interest in Hugo Chávez’s Venezuela, Eva Morales’ Bolivia and Fidel Castro’s Cuba among workers and young people, worldwide.
Kashmir
Kashmir: Successful Trade Union rights conference held
Government fails to solve the problems of the quake affected public sector workers.
Venezuela
Venezuela: Chavez announces the nationalisaton of telecom and power
"We’re moving towards a socialist republic of Venezuela"
Lebanon
Lebanon: Unions call for mass action against government cuts
Only a united working class can stop cuts and defeat imperialism