A strike wave is under way in Brazil, reflecting growing discontent with President Lula’s Workers Party government elected in January 2003. An ongoing strike by bank workers, and action by other powerful groups, suggests the resurgence of working class struggles after years of quiet.
THE MAIN proposal to come out of Blair’s trip was not debt relief or money to combat famine and AIDS.
TO HEAR British chancellor Gordon Brown and European leaders speak you would think that Africa’s debt crisis is almost over.
THOUSANDS OF Bushmen have been removed from the lands where they have lived for many generations and taken to resettlement camps.
For three days I have been held in the court prisons of Corinth.
PARK WARDENS on the tiny Galapagos islands have won an environmental victory after two weeks of strikes.
ONE OF the largest demonstrations in Dutch history took place last Saturday as 300,000 people, mainly trade unionists, marched against attacks on pensions and workers’ rights.
AUSTRALIA’S Tory prime minister, John Howard, is one of George W Bush’s staunchest backers.
OVER 1,000 people have died in Haiti as a result of floods and landslides in the wake of Hurricane Jeanne. Tens of thousands more are now at risk as epidemics threaten the country.
FIGURES WERE released last week detailing coming mass slaughter and social destruction in South Africa.
DIAMOND MINE workers in Botswana, southern Africa, have been fighting a bitter battle over wages which has seen mass dismissals, forced evictions—and great solidarity.
Without understanding the role and impact of capitalism and superpower intervention in Africa, the responses evoked by horrors such as that unfolding in Darfur, western Sudan, will often be mistaken.
