Striking oil workers in Kazakhstan have been massacred by riot police. A state of emergency has been called on the oil town, Zhanaozen, following the killing of up to 70 workers during recent protests. Read more...

The Arab Spring has developed into a Russian Winter. Despite icy temperatures and snow, 50,000 people packed into Bolotnaya Square, Moscow on 7 December in the largest protest yet seen in the city against the “once and future President” Vladimir Putin and his "managed democracy". It was a fitting conclusion to a year that began with the protests and uprising in Tunisia that have since spread around the world. Read more...

Peter Main reports on important recent developments in the growing workers movement in China Read more...

The fiscal union in Europe is potentially a turning point which would see years of austerity and poverty across Europe – it must be resisted and stopped. A statement by the League for the Fifth International Read more...

The government’s policies are making things much worse, writes John Bowman, particularly for the most vulnerable Read more...

If anyone thought that the election of a new Fine Gael/Labour coalition government might somehow soften austerity in Ireland they had better think again. Read more...

The growing chorus of international voices which are demanding action against Iran points to a drive to war and an urgent need to begin to prepare resistance, writes Martin Suchanek Read more...

• All out on 30 November
• Joint strike committees in every town
• Workers and students unite – forward to a general strike Read more...