Pakistan
Pakistan: One year on from devastating earthquake
Women and children suffer most
Around the world
Chile
Chile: Solidarity appeal
Stop the reprisals against the leaders of the student movement, the “penguin revolution”.
Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan: 25,000 coal miners strike over atrocious pay and conditions
Urgent international support needed!
Mexico
Mexico:”Social upheaval inflames Mexico
This was the headline in the US Wall Street Journal in its weekend edition on 1-3 September.
Scotland
Scotland: Murdoch’s “democracy in Scotland”
The campaign by Rupert Murdock against Tommy Sheridan, and through him against socialism, in Scotland took a new turn last week.
Denmark
Denmark: 100,000 in ten cities demonstrate against the welfare cuts
Greatest protest for 20 years in country’s second city. Eye-witness report from the day of action
Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka: Action demanded to end persecution of Sri Lanka’s Tamils
"Life for the Tamil people of Sri Lanka has become unbearable."
Netherlands
Netherlands: Inquiry on refugee deaths forces ministers’ resignations
Dutch Socialist Party must fight November elections on socialist policies
Scotland
Scotland: News of the World offensive against Tommy Sheridan
THE NEWS of the World (NoW), who suffered a sensational defeat at the hands of Tommy Sheridan in his defamation case against them in August, has unleashed a massive new offensive against him.
Sudan
Sudan: Darfur crisis – Class unity is the only answer
Nothing could more clearly demonstrate the toothless nature of the United Nations (UN) than its ineffectual posturing over the humanitarian crisis in the Darfur region of Western Sudan.