What is going on in Europe should be a wake up call to everyone, writes Simon Hardy Read more...

This week Italy overtook Greece as the state at the heart of the European crisis, raising the stakes and threatening to rip apart the Eurozone, writes Andy Yorke and Dave Stockton Read more...

No matter what they try, nothing seems to work… The world leaders have gathered at the G20, and European leaders are having regular summits, but the economy is just getting worse. Read more...

Chaos reigned in Athens as Prime Minister George Papandreou called a referendum to agree the latest round of austerity measure and EU bail outs, only to call it off days later. Read more...

Rajesh Thapa reports from Kathmandu on the growing divisions in the Maoists over the post civil war settlements Read more...

A bitter dispute between the Australian airline Qantas and its workforce over job cuts and outsourcing took a dramatic turn on 29 October when the company threw down the gauntlet and announced that it would ground all flights immediately and lock out all staff from 31 October. Read more...

The Occupy Lahore Camp started on Sat 22 October at 12. p.m. in Nasir Bagh park a regular site for political rallies. Read more...

The 48th general strike of October 19-20 has been by far the most successful strike in Greece since the fall of the dictatorship in 1974. It was the first time since many many years that private sector had a huge participation in a labor mobilization. Read more...