Italy’s students occupy and march City centres across Italy were brought to a halt on Saturday of last week as students and workers marched against the austerity measures implemented by Mario Monti’s government.
City squares across Egypt filled with demonstrators this week. Tens of thousands are protesting against Muslim Brotherhood president Mohamed Mursi.
Anger at Israel’s brutal offensive against Gaza was seen around the world this week. Israeli planes stopped bombing after eight days when their government reluctantly agreed to a ceasefire.
Today all the masks fell from Mohamed Mursi and his Muslim Brotherhood organisation, who trade in revolution and for whom the revolution is nothing but a means to reach the seat of power. They and the remnants of the old regime are two sides of the same coin, which is tyranny and enmity towards the people.
The story of the struggle for abortion rights in Ireland is punctuated with the names of dead women—Sheila Hodgers, Anne Lovett, Michelle Harte and now Savita Halappanavar.
The centre of Madrid became a sea of people when millions of workers walked out on strike last week. Estimates put one demonstration outside the city’s congress building at 360,000—more than ten times the official figure.
The biggest ever pro-choice protest in Dublin took place last Saturday after the death of Savita Halappanavar.
Today I saw a 14 year old boy with serious head injuries from shrapnel—and another kid with his intestines hanging out.
Israel has once again unleashed terror on the people of Gaza. Since its military assassinated Hamas military chief Ahmad al-Jaabri last week, Israel’s Operation Pillar of Cloud has killed more than 100 Palestinians.
There was mounting panic in Washington, London and other capital cities at the beginning of this week. It was caused by the prospect of an Israeli ground invasion of Gaza.
Hamas and negotiations Contrary to Israeli propaganda Hamas has not opposed all negotiations.
