The Dutch parliamentary elections on Wednesday have been won by two parties, the neoliberal VVD and the social democratic Labour Party.
Striking Lonmin platinum miners from Marikana in South Africa have picketed out workers at Anglo American Platinum (Amplats), South Africa’s largest platinum mining company.
Unions in Greece have called a general strike for Wednesday 26 September.
Barack Obama told the Democratic Party’s national convention that in the coming election, voters "face the clearest choice of any time in a generation."
The regime of Bashar al-Assad is locked in a full-scale armed uprising across Syria.
Some 4,000 striking Marikana platinum miners confronted heavily armed police on Monday of this week.
Around 26,000 teachers and support workers in Chicago, US, walked out this Monday for the first time in 25 years.
Polls ahead of the Netherlands general election this week suggest the radical left wing Socialist Party will overtake the far right Freedom Party.
Transport workers across Palestine’s West Bank were on strike today (Monday) against low wages and rising prices. Pickets were in place early across Ramallah, while barricades of burning tyres stopped all traffic movements into the city.
Some 3,000 striking platinum miners at Marikana in South Africa have marched back to the mine today, Wednesday, and are currently confronting management.
Construction workers in Melbourne, Australia, are blockading building sites in a battle over union rights. They are fighting against Grocon building boss Daniel Grollo.
Security guards at Modder East gold mine near Johannesburg shot four miners on a wildcat strike with rubber bullets on Monday of this week. One is in critical condition.
