The forced resignation of Japan’s Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama shows the continuing resentment felt by the Japanese people towards the hold that US foreign policy still has over their country.
A grim milestone was reached on 18 May—1,000 US troops have been killed in Afghanistan.
Britain and the US remained silent as 80 Red Shirt protesters were killed and hundreds injured in Thailand over the past three months. Troops violently cleared anti-government protesters out of central Bangkok last week.
Spanish workers could be the next group marching onto Europe’s battleground as public sector unions plan to strike against austerity measures on 8 June.
The British government is supplying the military that has murdered protesters in Thailand.
At least 32 miners are dead after an explosion at the Raspadskaya mine in Russia. A further 58 are missing.
Rural and urban poor, including farmers and industrial workers, make up the movement.
Wednesday’s general strike against austerity in Greece shut the country down and saw huge protests in every town and city. Panos Garganas, the editor of the Workers Solidarity newspaper in Greece, told Socialist Worker how the attempt to use the tragic deaths of three bank workers in a fire in Athens to quieten the movement has not succeeded
A Marfin bank worker has issued this statement following the death of three colleagues in a fire on Wednesday at the bank in Athens
The struggle for democracy and social justice in Thailand came to a crucial turning point this week.
Hundreds of thousands of people marched across the US on May Day against attacks on immigrants and a new legal assault in Arizona.
Workers and campaigners protested in Cairo last Sunday demanding a rise in the minimum wage.
