More than two million workers joined a one-day strike across Indonesia on Wednesday of last week. They demanded an end to low wages and the policy of outsourcing to contract labour.
Around 4,000 Foxconn workers struck at the end of last week in the central Chinese city of Zhengzhou.
On 9 October 2011 the Egyptian army attacked demonstrators protesting in support of the country’s Coptic Christian minority. The Maspero massacre left at least 27 people dead.
Hugo Chavez has been re-elected as president of Venezuela with just under 55 percent of the total vote—the lowest since he first took the presidency in 1998.
"The spotlight is now on Turkey, which is firing artillery rounds into Syria. But I don’t think Turkey is going to escalate. It’s not in their interests, and none of the Arab countries have shown support for this.
Doctors in hospitals across Egypt began a partial open-ended strike on Monday of this week. They are demanding a rise in health spending to 15 percent of the state budget and a minimum wage for doctors of 3000 Egyptian pounds per month (£300).
The Marikana miners at the British-owned Lonmin platinum mine won a pay rise of up to 22 percent. Now others are taking up this demand.
Rebels launched a fresh offensive in Syria’s largest city, Aleppo, on Thursday last week. But it has not seen the gains the rebels were hoping for.
2,000th US death in Afghanistan A grim landmark was reached last Saturday when the 2,000th US soldier was killed since the US invasion in 2001.
The general strike in Greece on Wednesday was a fantastic success.
Hundreds of thousands of protesters laid siege to the Spanish congress building in Madrid on Tuesday in the country’s latest mass mobilisation against austerity.
Among its many problems, Spain’s right wing government faces a mass revolt for Catalan independence.
