A major battle is underway in France. The newly elected president Nicolas Sarkozy and his right wing government have launched a wave of attacks on workers and students.
Students across France have been occupying their universities and protesting against the government’s LRU laws that introduce the market into university management.
Protesters continue to defy brutal state repression in Pakistan.
Students in France are mobilising against a new reform of higher education. Students had struck or occupied at over 30 universities as Socialist Worker went to press.
The spectre of defeat haunts the dictatorship of Pervez Musharraf and his supporters.
A solid strike by US screenwriters, which began on Monday of this week, is severely hitting the US television networks.
Authorities in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have jailed over 120 workers following a strike (Socialist Worker, 3 November) that brought construction on prestigious building projects in the oil rich state to a halt.
The US is blocking a compromise between the Lebanese government and opposition over the election of a new president for Lebanon.
Italian police forced homeless people in Rome to leave their makeshift houses on the banks of the Tiber river last week in the start of a racist crackdown.
Some 25,000 people demonstrated in Ankara, Turkey, last Saturday against military attacks on Kurds in northern Iraq.
Evidence is emerging that the Lebanese army deliberately destroyed the homes of Palestinians in the Nahr el-Bared refugee camp in northern Lebanon during a siege this summer.
