Shocking new footage of the Marikana massacre in South Africa backs the miners’ version of events against police claims. Police shot 112 miners—killing 34—during a strike at Lonmin’s platinum mine last August.
Workers across Greece were set to strike on Thursday of this week following a government clampdown on striking metro workers in Athens.
Zimbabwe’s high court has dismissed an attempt to increase the sentences for six socialists convicted for watching a video of the Arab Spring.
Iraqi soldiers shot into a crowd of protesters in Fallujah last Friday, killing five. Sixty others were injured after Friday prayers.
Around 1,000 workers in a Foxconn factory in China’s capital Beijing struck on Monday and Tuesday of last week.
The United Nations has announced it will investigate the use of unmanned drones by the US, Britain and Israel.
Egyptian police shot 30 people dead after protests erupted in the city of Port Said last weekend. Around 50 people had been killed across Egypt as Socialist Worker went to press.
David Cameron has promised to help the French invasion of Mali by sending up to 200 British troops "in a training role".
If revolution is the moment when the masses take to the stage of history, then Hugo Chavez’s Bolivarian Revolution began on 11 April 2002.
Western powers are stepping up their attempts to shape the opposition in Syrian by announcing an increase in aid to those who are fighting.
The French government says its troops will stay in Mali, west Africa, at least until July.
An inquiry into allegations that British soldiers tortured and killed people in Iraq finally started hearings this week.
