Thousands of Chilean students and school students have taken to the streets and become
the voice of a massive protest movement. What started as calls to reform Chile’s elite and

All the time now we are being told by the Labour Party and Trade Union leadership that there is no real will to fight against the horrendous cuts being implemented.

Once the US treated Latin America as its ‘backyard’. Then, as Oliver Stone’s new film South of the Border shows, a series of revolts put ‘21st century socialism’ on the agenda.

In a crisis, pretence at balance in the media diminishes and the population become subject to more repeated propaganda.

Conditions in Haiti are still appalling six months after the quake, reports Ashley Smith.

Photo: A family living in the Corail Cesselesse camp outside Port-au-Prince in July (Talea Miller)

The HSE has a new boss. He is Frank Dolphin who will replace Liam Downey, a former director of the company Beckton and Dickson and a member of IBEC’s National Council.

BP oil disaster response workers are reporting endemic problems, such as not being paid on time, low morale, rampant sickness, equipment failures and being lied to regularly.

For the first time in 87 days, little or no oil could be escaping into the Gulf of Mexico from BP's Macondo well.

David Harvey, radical academic, looks at the crisis of capitalism and argues for the need to replace it.

This RSA Animate, is based on a lecture at the RSA (www.theRSA.org).

Phil Gasper recounts the history of how Israel was founded on the basis of the expulsion of the Arab population of Palestine.