USA
US: September 11 – After the carnage, world crisis deepens
THE KILLING of thousands of innocent civilians in New York, Washington and elsewhere in the US has caused horror and revulsion among ordinary working people worldwide.
Around the world
USA
US: September 11 – Eyewitness comments from New York
I was out in the street in Greenwich Village and I saw part of the first World Trade Centre Towers collapse.
USA
US: September 11 – Political and economic aftershocks, a socialist analysis
World Trade Center and Pentagon Attacks
Colombia
Columbia: War and crisis
Unable to visit Bogota, Colombia’s capital, because it is considered too dangerous, Clinton was compelled to spend his brief visit in the costal resort of Cartagena. Protected by 350 US agents and 5,000 Colombian soldiers, […]
Ireland North
Ireland North: Holy Cross conflict
The situation outside the Holy Cross primary school has developed into an ugly stand-off as community leaders talk about trying to settle the conflict. At root, this conflict is about redefining boundaries between Catholic and […]
Peru
Peru: Peruvian populism
THE SECOND round run-off in Peru’s presidential elections illustrates the desperate need for a mass socialist alternative for the workers, peasants and downtrodden sections of the middle class and urban poor.
Macedonia
Macedonia: What lies behind NATO intervention?
NATO HAS launched ’Operation Essential Harvest’ in Macedonia, marking the fourth intervention by Western forces in the Balkans in ten years.
South Africa
South Africa: General strike against privatisation
The struggle against privatisation in SA has entered a qualitatively new stage. At the end of August Cosatu will be holding a two-day general strike to protest against the government’s plan to privatise the Electricity […]
Indonesia
Indonesia: After Wahid
The bitter power struggle between rival factions of Indonesia’s ruling elite came to a head this summer. The People’s Consultative Assembly completed a nine-month campaign to oust president Abdurrahman Wahid, voting 591-0 on 23 July […]
Italy
Italy: After Genoa, a new radicalisation has begun
The 300,000 strong 21 July demonstration and the state repression in Genoa are turning points both in Italy and for the growing worldwide opposition to capitalist globalisation.