Tens of millions of workers struck across India on Wednesday and Thursday of last week as its government prepares to pass a harsh austerity budget.
Mass protests forced the resignation of Bulgarian prime minister Boyko Borisov’s government on Wednesday of last week.
A general strike paralysed Greece today, Wednesday. The action was against new attacks on workers' wages and their union rights.
Some 200 doctors in Punjab state, Pakistan, went on hunger strike two weeks ago.
South African platinum mine security guards shot five miners with rubber bullets as they resisted an attempt by the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) to re-establish itself at the Amplats Siphumelele mine in Rustenberg.
Workers across Greece were set to strike on Wednesday of this week.
Italy’s national election—set to take place this weekend—has become a referendum on austerity and tax.
Huge US march against pipeline Almost 50,000 people demanded action on climate change in Washington DC last Saturday.
High Park in Drumcondra is a quite, small suburb of Dublin City, filled with bright modern, town houses.
Hundreds of thousands of people marched at the funeral of Chokri Belaid, a leading opposition politician in Tunisia, on Friday of last week.
French claims of victory turned out to be premature as Islamist rebels counter-attacked in northern Mali’s largest city, Gao. The city saw two days of heavy fighting last weekend.
Some 100,000 people took to the streets across the Republic of Ireland against austerity on Saturday of last week.
