Germany
Germany: Angry protest against cuts and job losses
Rostock city council passes most severe cuts in city’s history
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Germany
Germany: Angry protest against cuts and job losses
Rostock city council passes most severe cuts in city’s history
Haiti
Haiti: Chaotic elections
Slum poor ‘candidate’ Rene Preval favourite to win
Iran
Iran: Tehran bus workers
Some released, new arrests, hundreds detained
Ireland North
Northern Ireland: Belfast postal workers on unofficial strike
Second week of industrial action against bosses’ bullying
Italy
Italy: Drama over metal mechanics’ national agreement
Deal finally signed after 13 months of negotiation and 60 hours’ of strike action.
Kashmir
Kashmir: Workers commemorate union leader killed in last October’s earthquake
“Nazir Gardazi struggled for his class”
Pakistan
Pakistan: Fourteen hundred daily-waged Postal workers sacked
Trade union activists victimized
Ireland North
Northern Ireland: British fears of civil war and “a Portugal on our doorstep” in 1975 state papers
Warnings of the effect of a British withdrawal
Venezuela
Venezuela: Mass demonstration in support of Chavez regime
Right-wing opposition mobilizes only a few thousand