Romel Jean Pierre, 17 years old and a member of Ti Moun Rezistans, a collective in Port-au-Prince
Brazil heads the UN mission in Haiti. Haitians say that terrifying, unannounced and unexplained raids of their areas by Brazilian troops are common.
The annual conference of the Socialist Workers Party, which took place in London last weekend, was enthused by the excitement of the new student movement.
Conference agreed that mobilising resistance to the government’s cuts is a key task facing the SWP.
The upsurge of student struggle and resistance to the government means that the SWP has real possibilities to grow.
"The student demonstrations have been marked by visceral class anger and anti-Tory hatred," said Hannah Dee from the SWP central committee, opening the session on students.
The conference session on the SWP’s industrial work saw an important discussion over how to mobilise resistance in the unions.
The conference saw a series of votes on the party’s policies in the coming months.
The use of Islamophobic arguments by mainstream politicians has encouraged the growth of the far right in Britain.
Judith Orr, the new editor of Socialist Worker, introduced a session on imperialism.
Today the Democratic Republic of Congo is depicted as a place of horror. Recent fighting in the country is presented as a continuation of ancient blood-letting between eastern tribes and ethnic militias.
