With the ongoing miners’ strike and anger at the Marikana inquiry the ANC’s win is no return to ‘normality’, writes Charlie Kimber in South Africa
Two outrageous decisions threaten to make the official inquiry into the 2012 Marikana massacre into a whitewash.
Two Ukrainian provinces voted for independence in a referendum last weekend.
The biggest fast food workers’ strike so far is set to hit the US on Thursday of this week. Solidarity protests will take place in over 30 countries in a global day of action to demand union recognition, better pay and respect at work.
Thai prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra was overthrown last week on a legal technicality. Yingluck is the sister of former populist Thai prime minister Taksin Shinawatra.
Charlie Kimber reports from South Africa on a critical election, mass workers’ strikes and political turmoil
Around 80,000 platinum miners have been on strike since January. The 15-week strike is one the biggest in South Africa’s history.
Henrique Sanchez says big business will be the real winner of the World Cup—while ordinary Brazilians are losing their homes
Two years ago South African cops shot and killed 34 strikers at Marikana platinum mine, with the collusion of bosses and politicians. Now a documentary film about the massacre is being shown in the platinum belt where 80,000 miners are on strike. Charlie Kimber describes the atmosphere at one of the mass twilight screenings
Ukraine lurched closer to civil war this week. Ukrainian soldiers, pro-Russian fighters and civilians were killed and injured when Ukrainian government troops stepped up attacks against rebels in the eastern town of Slovyansk.
Hundreds of thousands of people marched and rallied for International Workers’ Day on Thursday of last week.
The abduction of over 200 school students by Islamist group Boko Haram has created a crisis for Nigeria’s government.
