Iraq
Iraq: Occupiers, privatisers and exploiters
THE US-led coalition forces occupying Iraq can’t get the country’s power supply going regularly nor can they create health and education services for local people.
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Britain
Britain: Euro debate – independent workers’ struggle needed
GORDON BROWN’S Commons statement on the euro, the world’s biggest currency union, deliberately faced both ways. The government said it would try to "break down anti-euro prejudice", but it would not hold a referendum on […]
France
France: Ongoing strikes and protests
Strikes and protest actions are continuing across France on a daily basis, against the Raffarin government’s pension ‘reform’ plans.
Peru
Peru: Workers resist government’s ‘state of emergency’
Peruvian workers have challenged the ‘state of emergency’ imposed by President Toledo.
Britain
Britain: British troops face brutality allegations
A SOLDIER from Warwickshire, Fusilier Bartlam aged 18, is being questioned following pictures of Iraqi POWs allegedly being mistreated.
Africa
Africa: How imperialism impoverishes Africa
THE RECENT decision by the United Nations (UN) to send troops to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is the latest in a series of interventions on the continent of Africa, ostensibly to quell […]
Britain
Britain: Exposed – Blair’s weapons of mass deception
AS TONY Blair jetted his way through the Gulf area, meeting Kuwaiti sheikhs, lecturing to British squaddies and kissing Iraqi children in one big photo-opportunity, evidence was growing that he and US president Bush lied […]
France
France: Rage grows at Raffarin’s pension “reforms”
Across France in countless villages, towns and cities, French workers from both the private and public sector, students and young people demonstrated in their hundreds of thousands and took strike action on Tuesday 3 June, […]
Austria
Austria: Over one million strike against pension cuts
More than 1 million workers in 18,000 workplaces all over Austria, a third of the entire Austrian workforce, took industrial action on 3 June – the country’s biggest strike since World War Two.
France
France: Mass strikes, hardening mood
Mass strikes and demonstrations on Tuesday, 3 June, show a hardening mood of combativity and solidarity in the battle against pension reform.