The Jan. 29 general strike in France—called “Black Thursday”—was the first to hit a major industrialized nation since the start of the global financial crisis. Eight major trade unions, representing teachers, postal workers, rail workers, and other public-sector employees, along… Read more“Unlimited strike” movement sweeps France
The Israeli human rights group Yesh Din is launching a campaign to help Palestinians sue over the use of their privately owned lands for Jewish settlement in the West Bank.
Six detainees from the Guantánamo Bay military prison, including three Uighurs from China’s Xinjiang province, are seeking refugee status in Canada with the support of Canadian sponsors.
The US has threatened to withhold intelligence cooperation with the UK if evidence is made public of the torture of a British resident at Guantánamo Bay, Britain’s High Court asserts in a ruling.
Iraq’s provincial elections saw 4,000 women as candidates for provincial councils, many guaranteed seats under a quota system. But some woman candidates questioned how significant the change really is.
For a second time in as many months, immigration detainees staged an uprising at the privately-operated Reeves County Detention Center in Pecos, TX, over complaints of poor medical treatment.
Two striking workers were shot dead during a confrontation with the authorities at the Mitsubishi auto factory in the eastern Venezuelan state of Anzoátegui.
The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) released three captured police agents and one soldier to a humanitarian mission in the jungles of the southern Colombian department of Caquetá.
Five activists were sentenced to two-month prison terms for trespassing on the US Army’s Fort Benning base on Nov. 23 as part of an annual protest against the School of the Americas.
We are now half way to our necessary winter fund-drive goal of $2,000. After Obama took office, the Washington Post announced in a headline: “Bush’s ‘War’ On Terror Comes to a Sudden End.” This inevitably leads us to ask if… Read morePlease support our winter fund drive
Strikes have broken out across the UK in support of a walkout by Lincolnshire energy workers angry at the use of foreign workers. But the xenophobic British National Party is attempting to exploit the issue.
From the BBC News, Feb. 1: Scores killed in Kenya oil fire At least 111 people have died in Kenya after an overturned petrol tanker caught fire on a highway and exploded. Reports say the fire broke out after hundreds… Read moreKenya: disaster reveals desperation
