Former allies of US occupation forces are the driving force behind a renewed wave of sectarian violence in Iraq.
The Stop the War Coalition has called a national demonstration against the continuing war in Afghanistan.
Anti-war Afghan MP Malalai Joya addressed a 300-strong Stop the War Coalition meeting at Conway Hall in central London recently.
The images on our TV screens of jubilant South Africans at football’s Confederations Cup in June have been quickly replaced by those of South Africans burning tyres and building barricades.
Three weeks ago, I stumbled across a construction workers’ strike in Rosebank, a smart district in Johannesburg.
Israel removes Palestinians from their homes Israeli police officers evicted a number of Palestinian families from their homes in East Jerusalem last Sunday. Police dumped their belongings in the street in the Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood.
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Some 900 workers at Ssangyong, the smallest of South Korea’s five car manufacturers, have occupied their factory against mass sackings for the last two months.
Gordon Brown has declared a victory in the "first phase" of an offensive by British and US troops in Helmand, Afghanistan.
Isa Saharkhiz, a leading pro-reform journalist and political analyst in Iran, has been arrested and his ribs broken under interrogation, according to information sent to Socialist Worker.
Trade unions, farmers, student organisations and social movements have called a general strike in Honduras for Thursday of this week. The protest movement has continued and grown since the 28 June coup, despite increasingly brutal repression and the murder of several demonstrators by the army.
More than 100,000 people took to the streets of Tehran on Friday of last week in the biggest show of defiance since a crackdown on mass protests against elections widely thought to be rigged.
