Trade unionists are blaming a brutal management culture at communications giant France Telecom for a spate of suicide attempts by workers.
Barack Obama’s attempt at a new "peace process" in the Middle East is already in serious trouble.
Up to 3,000 South African soldiers fought running battles with riot police across the government district of Pretoria, the country’s capital, at the end of August. They had been marching to demand a 30 percent pay rise and improved conditions.
The Sri Lankan government is expelling James Elder, a senior official in the United Nations Unicef children’s charity, after he spoke out against its treatment of Tamil civilians.
Independent trade unionists in Egypt are facing a new campaign of intimidation and legal threats.
‘The NPA’s Summer University marked the huge step forward taken by the revolutionary left in France over the last year.
Last Sunday’s general election in Japan delivered a landslide victory for the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) and an unprecedented defeat for the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), which has ruled the country almost continuously for 50 years. The DPJ won 308 lower house seats to the LDP’s 119.
Though the civil war in Sri Lanka has officially ended, two recent events show that the danger for the country’s Tamil minority remains.
In downtown Belgrade, the Roma community’s settlements are under attack.
The US military has admitted that the Afghan resistance is spreading across the country.
A battle over pay and working conditions in the post office marks a new phase of the Egyptian workers’ movement.
The possible assassination of Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud by a US drone bomber last week was greeted by shouts of joy in both the US and Islamabad.
