Ireland North
N Ireland: Classroom assistants betrayed!
Union leaders try to break strike
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Ireland North
N Ireland: Socialist Party replies to Sinn Fein attacks on classroom assistants
Memory of Bobby Sands invoked by SF to deflect from right wing policies
Thailand
Thailand: Pro-Thaksin party’s election triumph creates more uncertainty
Society polarised
Britain
Britain: 2007 – A convulsive year
The wheels have come off the Gordon Brown bandwagon.
Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka: New year starts with atrocities
Full-scale war to follow assassination and bombings
Germany
Germany: Germany at the crossroads
Germany is the economic powerhouse of Europe, accounting for just over 20% of total European Union Gross Domestic Product (GDP).
Pakistan
Pakistan: Mass opposition to military and Musharraf regime after Benazir killing
Pakistan People’s Party leadership ’bequeathed’ and no change in policy indicated
Britain
Britain: The crisis in Respect
Crisis will be used to argue it is impossible to build a mass force to the left of Labour.
Pakistan
Pakistan: Socialist Movement condemns the killing of Benazir Bhutto
Pakistan People’s Party leader killed in suicide attack; political crisis and chaos deepen further
Iran
Iran: Release detained students
The number reported being held has now increased to 43.