This month sees presidential elections in Zimbabwe. Basker Vashee looks at President Mugabe's attempts to stay in power.
A statement from those who are protesting against Robert Mugabe.
What could be more stupid than the government's plans for the tube?
Is the recession coming to an end? Chris Harman is sceptical.
The global 'civilisers' have left a bloody legacy in Africa.
The general public was seriously underwhelmed by the death of Princess Margaret.
People left on hospital trolleys waiting for treatment; bosses recruiting non-union labour to break a legitimate strike, with a nod and a wink from the government; a cash for favours scandal erupts engulfing ministers and their advisers. You could be mistaken for thinking that the dark days of the Tories have returned. But no, this is life under New Labour.
The international movement against capitalist globalisation faces two important tests. The first is the protests against the bosses' jamboree of the World Economic Forum, moved this year from Davos in Switzerland to New York. The second is the World Social Forum (WSF) that meets in Porto Alegre in Brazil between 31 January and 5 February.
Last year the World Economic Forum (WEF), which had been meeting in Davos in Switzerland for decades, declared that it would hold its next gathering in New York City between 31 January and 4 February at the posh Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. No one knows for sure the reasoning behind this sudden change of venue.
The fall of Enron is a very British scandal because it relied on a British cast as well as friendships with Bush and Clinton to give it respectability. Lord Wakeham sat on the board, chairing the firm's 'Audit Committee'. Labour invited Enron executives to its 'gala dinners'.
Thirty years after it happened, why is there still such a fuss about Bloody Sunday? 'Daily Telegraph' and 'Daily Mail' commentators rant and rage about the huge political, legal and media concentration on Bloody Sunday, and about the cost of the Saville tribunal of inquiry into the events of 30 January 1972. They point to the fact that other atrocities have seen as many, or more, innocent people cut down, and just as cruelly.
