Sudan
Sudan: Ethnic cleansing in Darfur
Once again, our TV screens are filled with images of destitute African villagers, emaciated with starvation, their faces contorted with grief and terror.
Around the world
Russia
Russia: Bloodbath in Beslan
The bloody end to the school hostage crisis in Beslan, North Ossetia, angered, sickened and shocked people around the world.
Germany
Germany: Majority support for socialism
Today 79% of east Germans and 51% of west Germans think that Socialism is a "good idea" that was "only badly implemented" in the former Soviet Union and eastern Europe. That is the judgement after […]
Iraq
Iraq: US imperialism weakened further
The dreams of the US right-wing ’neo-cons’ lie in tatters on the battlefields of Iraq. One of the only certainties in the turmoil of Iraq is that imperialism’s occupation is doomed to failure.
Russia
North Ossetia: School siege is latest horror of Chechen conflict
Putin fails to bring ‘peace and security’ to Chechens or Russians
Venezuela
Venezuela: After the referendum, contradictions in Venezuela more apparent
The Venezuelan right wing went to great lengths to impose a recall referendum.
Germany
Germany: More than 100,000 people take part in Monday demonstrations
Eye witness accounts from Rostock and Leipzig
Germany
Germany: Hot autumn starts early
“Hot autumn” for German government starts early as tens of thousands take to the streets in yet another wave of protest against impoverishment programme Agenda 2010
Venezuela
Venezuela: The elite lose again
Across Venezuela hundreds of thousands have celebrated the defeat of the attempt to “recall” the radical President Hugo Chávez. The overwhelming referendum result is a huge blow against US President Bush’s policies and the Venezuelan […]
Sudan
Sudan: Armed intervention must be opposed
The crisis gripping Darfur, in western Sudan, has been prominently in the news for weeks now.