Pakistan
Pakistan: Two ‘floods’ devastate working people and poor
Flash floods destroy lives, soaring price inflation means poverty
Month: September 2010
World Economy
“Millenium Goals”: Hunger for profits fuels starvation
In about three weeks, a Plenary Meeting of the General Assembly of the United Nations will be held in New York to review progress in reaching the Milennium Development Goals (MDGs).
Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan: Joe Higgins on human rights violations
Joe Higgins MEP addresses the European Parliament’s Subcommittee on Human Rights on the brutal, repressive regime in Kazakhstan and its blatant breaches of human, civil and political rights.
India
All-India general strike: Enormous potential for struggle demonstrated
Workers showed courageous determination
Britain
Britain: Paying a higher price for higher education
MASSIVE ATTACKS on working people, students, young people and the unemployed are currently being made by the government, in an attempt to put the bill for the economic crisis squarely at the feet of the […]
Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan: Oil workers sued by bosses for “material losses” due to “illegal” strike
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Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka: ‘Black Day’
‘Death of Democracy’ in Sri Lanka
Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan: Oil workers fight ‘unfair dismissal’
Solidarity message from Joe Higgins, Socialist Party (CWI Ireland) MEP
World Economy
Economy Slowing: Double Dip Fears Grow
In the past few weeks there’s been a noticeable shift in tone in the business pages and journals. Their confidence in the so-called “recovery” has faded, and has been replaced by anxiety.
South Africa
South Africa: Public sector strike “suspended” by union leaders
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