Canada
Canada: Federal elections called for 2 May
Outgoing Harper government presided over price hikes, sell-offs and foreign wars
Month: April 2011
China
China: Government steps up crackdown in response to Middle East unrest
One of China’s most prominent artists Ai Weiwei has been seized and detained by state security agents as he was about board a flight to Hong Kong at Beijing airport on Sunday 3 April.
Britain
Britain: After 26 March demonstration
For a 24 hour general strike!
Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan: Esenbek Ukteshbayev met with flowers and solidarity
Opposition activist released after international protest campaign
Africa
Libia:Por la defensa de la revolución! ¡No a la intervención imperialista!
¡Por la construcción de una fuerza independiente de los trabajadores y los pobres
Comment & Analysis
Review: “How to Change the World”
Does Eric Hobsbawm provide a revolutionary perspective?
Scotland
Scotland: Anti-cuts and socialist election challenge launched
Whichever combination of party’s form the next Scottish government, it will be a government that will attempt to carry through the deepest cuts in decades.