Millions of workers in Italy last week joined a general strike against attempts by the government and the bosses to make them pay for the economic crisis.
Last Saturday two marches started in the huge barrio of Petare, in Venezuela's capital Caracas.
Following huge strikes and demonstrations on 29 January against the French government’s response to the recession, last week brought further indications of the potential of the developing movement in France.
‘In our areas we haven’t known the Marxist or Communist or social-democratic left that existed before.
After more than 25 years of civil war, the government of Sri Lanka believes it is on the verge of finally crushing the rebel Tamil forces on the island.
Defying riot police, protesters took to the streets of Vladivostok, Moscow and other Russian cities in protest at the economic crisis.
Farmers’ protests in Greece have increased the pressure on the country’s right wing government, which had already been rocked by riots, strikes and protests in December.
"Nobody notices when there’s a strike anymore", French president Nicolas Sarkozy declared last summer. On Thursday of last week he was made to eat his words.
The government of Iceland became the first to be driven out of office in this recession by a wave of popular protest this week.
The movement against Greece’s right wing government returned to the streets last week.
As US president-elect Barack Obama prepares for his inauguration next Tuesday the impact of the recession on the US grows more severe by the day.
Barack Obama was elected on a wave of hope following eight years of the warmongering neoliberal George Bush.
