Netherlands
Netherlands: Austerity measures lead to soup kitchens
"In this week’s BN-De Stem [newspaper] there was an article about a new phenomenon in Breda: the soup kitchen.
Articles by Johann Kwisthout, Socialist Party (SP) Councillor, and Offensief (CWI) member
Comment & Analysis
Review: NHS plc
Before the establishment of the National Health Service (NHS) in 1948, an accident or illness could be a catastrophe for working class people.
Taiwan
Taiwan’s elections: Chen won’t act without Bush
Ahead of Taiwan’s elections on 11 December, Taiwanese socialist Huang Ding-wang who is living abroad gave the following interview to Laurence Coates of Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (CWI Sweden).
Europe
European Union: No light at the end of the tunnel
Mass discontent behind Commission crisis
Germany
Germany: Lessons of the Opel strike
"This was a sell out!"
América
Conflicto Mapuche: Mas Represion Es La Unica Respuesta
La situación de los mapuche ha empeorado bastante durante los últimos años.
Israel / Palestine
Israel: Peace demonstrators look for answers
The speakers at Monday’s demonstration , held in Tel Aviv, in support of withdrawal from Gaza were not radical ones – actually they gave unconditional support to Sharon’s disengagement plan.
China
China: The Daping mining disaster and “maximising profits”
The final death toll may rise to over a hundred at the Daping coal mine in what is China’s worst mining disaster so far this year.
Myanmar-Burma
Burma: Open split in Burmese Generals’ regime
On Tuesday 19 October, the prime minister of Burma, Khin Nyunt, was forced out of power by the army’s generals and put under house arrest. According to government sources, Khin Nyunt was: "Permitted to retire […]
Myanmar-Burma
Burma: A potential paradise haunted by poverty and war
Ancient kingdom prey to colonial powers