The employment minister responsible for implementing controversial pension reforms in Greece, Vassilis Magginas, resigned last Saturday following a general strike that brought the country to a standstill.
Several provinces of Bolivia have announced that they are to breakaway from the central state in protest against the left wing policies of the country’s leader Evo Morales.
The contradictions at the heart of the Chinese economy are leading to both protests and repression. John Chen and Michael Liu look at the prospects for the growth of a new workers’ movement. Alt. url: Dansk oversættelse
When corruption stories emerge, they are usually presented as being about individual rotten apples. While a few together create a general atmosphere of sleaze, there is always the search for the specific bribe.
The Nato occupation of Afghanistan is in deep trouble with the Western military alliance facing defeat unless it sends thousands more troops, tanks and warplanes to crush the resistance.
Turkish warplanes launched air raids on Iraqi Kurdish villagers in an escalation of its war on Kurdish militants. The raids were conducted with the connivance of the US military.
Benazir Bhutto, the former prime minister of Pakistan, was murdered today in a brutal suicide bomb attack that also claimed the lives of at least 20 of her supporters.