Farm supervisors opened fire into a crowd of 200 migrant workers on a strawberry farm in the village of Manolada, western Greece, last week.
Over 40,000 teachers converged on the Danish capital Copenhagen on Thursday of last week in a magnificent demonstration of defiance against a savage employers’ offensive.
Doctors and nurses in Greece were set to take part in a national strike on Wednesday of this week. This action is against job cuts caused by hospital mergers.
An Egyptian court this week ruled that former dictator Hosni Mubarak shouldn’t be held over the killing of protesters during the revolution. But he is being kept in prison because he faces separate corruption charges.
Hugo Chavez’s chosen successor, Nicolas Maduro, won the presidential election in Venezuela last Sunday.
Thousands of people are staging daily protests in the run-up to the Formula 1 Grand Prix in Bahrain. They point out that the government uses money from the race to buy arms and repress ordinary people in Bahrain.
Bosses in Paris told “black and Arab” porters not to come to work on the day of a visit by the Israeli president. That’s according to workers in the SUD union at the Gare du Nord station.
The strongest earthquake in 50 years struck south east Iran as Socialist Worker went to press.
Imperialist warmongering against North Korea threatened to bring the region to the brink of nuclear war last week.
Sectarian thugs attacked a funeral at the Coptic Christian cathedral in the Cairo suburb of Abbassiyya on Sunday.
The French political establishment has been badly shaken by a series of corruption scandals.
