Both Greece’s main union federations have called a general strike against public sector mass sackings on Wednesday 6 November.
The fascist Front National (FN) won a by-election last week in Brignoles, southern France. It took more than 40 percent in the first round vote and 54 percent in the second.
Paramilitaries kidnapped Libyan prime minister Ali Zeidan for several hours last Thursday.
Striking platinum miners at South Africa’s Amplats company returned to work last week following concessions from bosses. A planned 3,300 redundancies have been shifted from being compulsory to voluntary by the strike.
Guards targeted Shaker Aamer, the last British resident in Guantanamo, when he joined a mass hunger strike protesting prison brutality, a fellow inmate has reported. Hunger strikers were put in solitary confinement and force fed through the nose.
Chinese security forces injured at least 60 people when they opened fire on a Tibetan separatist demonstration in Dathang last week.
Anti-fascists from across Europe met in Greece last Sunday at the spot where musician Pavlos Fyssas was murdered by a member of the fascist Golden Dawn.
Herman Wallace, who served 41 years in solitary confinement as one of the Angola 3, died three days after being released last week.
US special forces failed to capture a leader of the Islamist group Al Shabaab in the Somali town of Barawe last weekend
Police killed over 50 people in Egypt last weekend and more than 200 people were arrested. Demonstrations to mark the 40th anniversary of the 1973 Arab-Israeli war took place on Sunday 6 October, a national holiday in Egypt. Thousands of supporters of the military gathered to celebrate in Cairo’s Tahrir Square as jets flew in formation overhead.
The arrest of Nazi leaders is an opportunity the left can use to its advantage, says Panos Garganas
Andy Zebrowski says workers’ opposition to austerity is growing in strength as the economic crisis puts rulers in trouble
