Greek civil service workers occupied their ministries last week, blocking the way for the cutters.
Mass meetings in bus garages across Cairo were reported to have rejected a deal agreed between leaders of the independent union, the minister of labour and the management of the Public Transport Authority. This is according to a report in the Al-Ishtaraki newspaper on 28 September.
Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian National Authority president, demanded that Palestine become a United Nations (UN) recognised state last Friday.
The Pakistani state has arrested and tortured union and political activists using special anti-terror laws.
Protests continued to grow against returned president Ali Abdullah Saleh in Yemen’s capital Sana’a last weekend.
The revolution in Egypt is gaining new momentum.
Clashes between protesters and anti-government forces in Yemen left more than 60 people dead on the streets of the capital, Sana’a, last Sunday and Monday.
The centre-left "red bloc" narrowly won Denmark’s election last week—throwing out a decade-long Liberal government propped up by the far right Danish People’s Party.
It has been a breathless week for Egypt’s military rulers as strikes and mass protests gain momentum.
Some of the teachers who protested outside the Egyptian parliament last week spoke to Socialist Worker.
There is a battle for power going on in Libya.
There is a huge wave of occupations in Greek university faculties against the government’s education bill. They began on 24 August and more than 200 are now taking place.
