Two men walked into the National Union of Mineworkers office at the Lonmin platinum mine in Marikana, South Africa, and shot two officials on Monday of this week.
Around 10,000 people protested in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa last Sunday.
The Gezi Park resistance in Turkey is in its sixth day. Protesters there organised a sit-down at the park to protect trees that were set to be cut down. Police launched a barbarous attack on them - but yesterday the government suffered a defeat.
Åsa Hjalmers reports on the riots that have shaken Sweden’s capital Stockholm over the past week
People fighting Assad's regime in Syria have welcomed the European Union's decision to lift the arms embargo against the Syrian opposition. But the West has offered a poisoned gift.
Hundreds of thousands of right wing protesters demonstrated against equal marriage again in Paris last weekend—a month after it was voted into French law
The African Union (AU) met last weekend and rubber?stamped a United Nations (UN) plan to intensify its intervention in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Rally to save Chicago schools. A fresh inquiry into Iraqi deaths. Colombian rebels sign deal.
Teachers’ strikes could have beaten Greece’s government but their trade union leaders threw the opportunity away, writes Panos Garganas
Ten striking chrome miners were hospitalised after rubber bullets were fired on Tuesday of this week at the Lanxess mine near Rustenberg in South Africa.
Hundreds of fast food and retail workers in the city of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, went on strike last week.
