Mali
Mali: Imperialist intervention offers no hope for the working masses
Further slide into chaos and anarchy
Month: January 2013
Comment & Analysis
Film review: Les Miserables
A film about revolution and the appalling injustices of society – but the message is about individual salvation through love.
Italy
Italy: February election likely to end in stalemate
Plethora of parties and coalitions but none that represent workers’ need for a fight
Pakistan
Pakistan: Working class will bring the real change
Statement from Socialist Movement Pakistan on recent events in the country
Greece
Greece: Riot police sent in against striking metro workers
Solidarity strikes spread – Unions must widen strike action to defeat government repression and to stop all cuts!
Egypt
Egypt: 2nd anniversary of ‘January 25th Revolution’
Despite bravery and determination, life for mass of workers and poor not improved – A second, ‘socialist’ revolution is needed!
Climate Change & Environment
Book review: Planning for the Planet
Pete Dickenson counterposes the alternative of a socialist programme for the environment to this capitalist disaster.
USA
US: Workers start to demand change
Huge opening for the left
Mali
Sahel: No to the war in Mali!
Imperialist intervention will deepen crisis and instability
South Africa
South Africa: Twenty arrested in Flagstaff protest for basic services
Mass protest at court – urgent solidarity needed