Europe
EU: Mountain of clothing goods “out on bail”
Textiles crisis between China, the EU and the US
Around the world
Nigeria
Nigeria: Fuel price rise provokes renewed anger
The end August 30% rise in Nigerian fuel prices has provoked a renewed outburst of mass anger in Africa’s most populous country.
Germany
Germany: Political establishment fears rise of Left Party during elections
New party has potential to become third biggest party in Bundestag
Iraq
Iraq: The tragedy of Baghdad
The tragedy of Baghdad – with almost 1000 Shia pilgrims killed in Iraq’s bloodiest day on 31 August – competes with the catastrophe of New Orleans in a kind of “league of horrors”.
Ireland North
Northern Ireland: Dangerous rise in sectarianism over summer
How can the working class stop the bigots?
USA
US: Hurricane Katrina – biggest refugee crisis since the American Civil War
The effects of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans and Mississippi could be the US’s worst natural disaster, with a projected 10,000 or more people dead and its biggest refugee crisis since the American Civil War. […]
Britain
Iraq: After the constitutional stitch-up…
The fragmentation of Iraq?
Nigeria
Nigeria: One fuel price hike too many
Marxists often state that counter-revolution invariably always act as the whiplash of revolution. This is the best way to interpret the easy manner with which some of the slogans which were raised by the DSM […]
Scotland
Scotland: After Scotland’s largest ever protest G8 leaders…
G8 fail to ‘Make Poverty History’
Pakistan
Pakistan: A state at the crossroads
Nothing has changed under Musharraf