The United States and Russia backed brutal assaults on major cities this week. Both are designed to boost their control in a strategically and economically crucial part of the world—regardless of the cost in civilian lives.
Public sector unions in Greece are gearing up for a new general strike against Syriza’s austerity drive, writes Panos Garganas in Athens
A wave of mass protests in Poland has smashed a proposed total ban on abortions in a humiliating defeat for the right wing government.
Thousands of Yemenis, some with guns, protested in the streets of the capital, Sanaa, last Sunday after a Saudi Arabian airstrike.
Two of the least popular presidential candidates in US history had words they hoped would never be heard exposed in leaks last week.
The Chicago Teachers’ Union suspended a planned strike of 30,000 workers as Socialist Worker went to press.
The South African students’ revolt against a tuition fee hike continues—and has defied the authorities’ attempts to stop demonstrations and protests.
Hundreds of people have been killed and whole residential districts destroyed in Aleppo, Syria, in the last two weeks.
Protests took place across the US over the weekend as the police’s killing spree continued apace.
The “jungle” shantytown of refugees in Calais is to be demolished “in the next few weeks”, French prime minister Manuel Valls vowed last Sunday.
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Western governments and their allies are conniving to send Afghan refugees back to a warzone.
