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Pope John Paul II died Saturday 2 April – the first ever Polish pope and first non-Italian since 1523.

So they’re off and running in the general election stakes. But for ordinary voters looking for a party to back there appear to be more and bigger obstacles than anything in the Grand National course.

A flurry of diplomatic initiatives and counter-initiatives from Taiwan’s sharply divided political establishment – the anti-independence pan-blue bloc and formally pro-independence pan-greens – has shifted the cross-strait issue (i.e. relations with China) into overdrive.

For the third election in succession, the Robert Mugabe-led Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (Zanu-PF) has thwarted the will of the people and retained power through rigged elections. This time it obtained a ’landslide’ – […]

Despite concessions, mass movement against neo-liberalism could have achieved more.

Workers organisations must take decisive mass action now!

Mass protests forced concessions, but no change of direction

Workers’ movement needs to adopt independent, class policies