Over 10,000 workers at China’s massive shoe factories in Dongguan in the Guangdong province walked out on strike last Monday.
Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro was set to enter a second round of formal talks with right wing opposition leader Henrique Capriles as Socialist Worker went to press.
Workers across Greece were set to strike on Wednesday of this week in the first combined public and private sector general strike since November last year.
Ukrainian authorities sent security forces to clear government buildings in Kharkiv, the country’s second biggest city, of pro-Russian demonstrators on Tuesday of this week.
As Nato’s occupation comes to an end, Guy Smallman speaks to Afghans about its legacy of deep poverty and corruption
The month-long Indian elections began this week with speculation that the hard right BJP party would replace the Congress party-led government.
European unions take action; Fascists gain in Hungary election; Shot fired in Brazilian Olympic strike
Tens of thousands of people demonstrated in Syntagma Square outside Greece’s parliament on Sunday.
The fascists have won high votes in France—and mainstream parties helped them, says Dave Sewell
The West and Russia are continuing their phoney war over Ukraine.
Egyptian army chief Abdel Fattah el-Sisi has resigned from the army in order to stand in presidential elections due on
Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s AKP party did well in local elections last week.
