Britain
Britain: Rocking capitalism
The Northern Rock banking crisis
Month: September 2007
Pakistan
Pakistan: Crisis continues in run-up to presidential elections
All wings of establishment jostle for power
Africa
Africa: Workers’ struggle and capitalist nightmare
Economic ‘upswing’ offers no improvement for the masses
History & Anniversaries
History: 40th anniversary of the death of Che Guevara
“..it is not for revolutionaries to sit in their doorways of their houses waiting for the corpse of imperialism to pass by” (Second Declaration of Havana, 1962)
Myanmar-Burma
Burma: Army shoot peaceful demonstrators
Deaths and injuries, as protests spread
Britain
Britain: Banking crisis exposes fragile economic boom
Capitalism could drag millions of working people into an economic and social abyss.
Ireland North
Northern Ireland: Assembly government carries out neo-liberal policies
Sectarian parties lower taxes for big business while hiking taxes for workers
Myanmar-Burma
Burma: Dictatorship under threat
Military warns of “action” against biggest street protests for two decades
Ireland North
Northern Ireland: Classroom Assistants vote 93% for strike action on 26 September
1,000 schools affected…picket lines in every city, town and village
Lebanon
Lebanon: MP assassinated days before elections
Government and opposition struggle intensifies