Failure at Durban as business interests sinks climate talks
Gunnar Westin Sat, 24/12/2011 - 13:40
After the terrible failure of the UN climate meeting in Copenhagen in 2009 there was little belief that this year’s summit in Durban, South Africa, was going to get much further. The pesimists were proven right, once again writes Gunnar Westin
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Human Rights – Rajapakse-style
PD Saranapala Fri, 23/12/2011 - 19:03
December 10th, Human Rights Day, was marked in Jaffna by a rally protesting at the continued oppression and denial of the human rights of the Tamil people in Sri Lanka.
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Rumours of a military coup grow in Pakistan
Revolutionary Socialist Movement (Pakistan) Fri, 23/12/2011 - 18:25Pakistan has buried 24 troops killed in a NATO cross-border air attack that is now causing a crisis in relations between the United States and its ally in the “War on Terror”. Read more...
Solidarity with the Kazakhstani oil workers
Rachel Brooks Wed, 21/12/2011 - 14:16Striking 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...
Anti-Putin demonstrations show crack in Putin’s system
Martin Suchanek Wed, 21/12/2011 - 12:38The 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...
Strike wave in China - now build factory committees
Peter Main Fri, 16/12/2011 - 13:15Peter Main reports on important recent developments in the growing workers movement in China Read more...
The Eurozone deal must be stopped!
League for the Fifth International Wed, 14/12/2011 - 10:06The 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...
1917 in Russia - two revolutions and a turning point in history - the first workers state. First published in 1987 this is an updated version using re-edited material serialised in Workers Power in 2007.
First published by Workers Power in 2000.