A devastating bomb attack on Bashar al-Assad’s inner circle has exposed deep fractures and a crisis of confidence inside his regime.
Stock markets plummeted this week as the economic crisis deepened across Europe.
Workers’ tents and banners started to appear in the street outside the Abidin palace in Egypt’s capital Cairo a few weeks ago.
Massive demonstrations against austerity rocked cities across Spain on Thursday night.
Some 2,300 electricity workers in Lebanon have been on strike for the past 79 days. They are demanding permanent contracts from Électricité du Liban (EdL), the state department that manages electricity in the country.
Once again the Mahalla workers have declared a strike. Let us not forget that their great strikes in December 2006 and September 2007 and their struggles in February and April 2008 were the sparks which ignited the Egyptian revolution.
For the second time in six years protests have erupted after an election result was seen as deeply flawed. The context is the ruling elites’ response to attempts to challenge them at the ballot box. The old ruling party, the PRI, controlled the Mexican presidency for 70 years.
The Syrian revolution has reached a new crossroads. Recent regime massacres have combined with a series of defections that could open the door to greater influence by the West.
US’s riot training for West Africa US marines are teaching crowd control to troops in several West African countries.
Some 23,000 workers at the giant Misr Spinning plant in Mahalla al-Kubra, Egypt, walked out on strike last Sunday.
Three Mau Mau veterans took their case against the British government to London’s High Court on Monday of this week.
