Italy
Italy: Crucial congress of Rifondazione Comunista rejects former leadership
Chance to re-launch Rc as fighting workers’ party
Month: July 2008
Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe: Will negotiations solve economic and political crisis?
Courage of masses in face of social catastrophe and brutal repression
Pakistan
Pakistan: Telecom workers win strike with 35% increase in the wages
8,000 contract workers’ ‘regularisation’ confirmed
Lebanon
Lebanon: “National Unity” government masquerade to “renew” the system
Workers’ alternative to sectarianism and neo-liberalism needed
Asia
Pakistan: 50.000 trabajadores hacen huelga Â? cierran los telares mecánicos en Faisalabad
Cuatro días de huelga forzaron al gobierno y a los empresarios a aceptar las demandas de los trabajadores
América
Brazil: Coordinación Nacional de Luchas (CONLUTAS) celebra su primer congreso nacional
Importante paso hacia la reconstrucción del movimiento obrero en Brasil.
Pakistan
Pakistan: Telecom strike continues as negotiations fail
Thousands still sitting inside Telecom headquarters
Scotland
Scotland: New Labour suffer electoral disaster in Glasgow East
Left party, Solidarity, receives very warm response to class policies
Netherlands
Netherlands: Rise in industrial struggles
Workers demand living wages
Ireland Republic
Ireland: Building and Allied Trade Union (BATU) strikers appeal for support
Union officials pass pickets, sacks employees, slash wages and refuse proper union recognition!