International

Pakistan: tensions deepen as war spills over

12/10/2010

Nato’s beleaguered Afghan war continued to spill over into Pakistan this week, reigniting tensions between the US and the leaders of its client state.

Highlights from the strike and protests in France

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12/10/2010

Three and a half million people marched on over 200 demonstrations across France according to the CGT union federation.

Tens of thousands protest against racists in Sweden

27/09/2010

As news of the election came out on Sunday evening and through Monday morning, and the realisation that a racist party, the Swedish Democrats, had received 20 seats in parliament, angry Swedish people

Threads of resistance

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21/09/2010

Low-paid workers in the Global South are often dismissed as powerless. But Bangladeshi garment workers are leading a fightback.

Haiti's Disaster Capitalists Swoop In

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21/09/2010

Refugee evictions, private land grabs, disaster capitalism—you can't tell the story of Haiti without all this.

Afghanistan: US hasn’t liberated us, say women

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08/09/2010

The Kabul district of Khoshal Khan Mina has a dark history. In 1992 the worst massacre of Afghanistan’s bloody civil war took place here.

Workers uprising across southern Africa

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08/09/2010

On Wed 1 Sept 2010 the masses in Mozambique burst into an uprising over rising bread, water and electricity.

Millions Protest in France!

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08/09/2010

The Theatre National De Chaillot was closed Tuesday September 7th- from the building hung a huge white sheet spray painted in big red and black lettering stating – “The theatre is closed as the worker

Trial of former Liberian president Charles Taylor: Diamonds, dirty wars and the West

15/08/2010

The media have reported the hearings into the war crimes trial of former Liberian president Charles Taylor as a soap opera starring such celebrities as Naomi Campbell and Mia Farrow.

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