Egypt’s new independent unions are determined not to be "bought off" by forces that want to blunt their opposition to dictatorship and imperialism.
Tens of thousands of brave revolutionaries filled Arba’in Square in Suez during last week’s "Friday of determination" protests. The demands of the demonstrators in Suez are summed up by the call for retribution for the killers of the martyrs, speeding up the trial of Hosni Mubarak and his corrupt henchmen, and the purge of the interior ministry and the judiciary.
The US claims to back the movement against the Syrian regime. But in reality it wants to stabilise the situation for its own benefit.
The Horn of Africa is facing its worst drought in 60 years, and the United Nations says ten million people could face famine.
Demonstrators in Senegal in West Africa have forced the president to retreat from a planned constitutional change that would have allowed him to have stayed in office for another term.
The Thai general election results are a slap in the face for the military dictatorship. The majority of people have rejected the military, the Democrat Party and the royalist elites.
The Nato war on Libya is in crisis. The Western powers’ bombing campaign has not delivered victory to the rebels—it has created a stalemate.
The Syrian resistance is organising for the next stage of the battle to defeat the government.
Greek authorities have halted an international aid flotilla on its way to break the Israeli seige of Palestine.
Leading trade unionist and bus worker Ali Fattouh was found not guilty in Egypt last Saturday of "bringing his employer into disrepute".
Barack Obama announced last week that "the tide of war is receding". He talked of a corner being turned in Afghanistan and stated that US troops will start to pull out next month.
The International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for Libyan dictator Colonel Muammar Gaddafi on Monday of this week.
