“God damn it, I knew I was right!” People sometimes tell me I’m either paranoid or too suspicious, seeing things that maybe aren’t there. But my intuition almost never lets me down, and…
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WORLD FEDERATION OF TRADE UNIONS: Class oriented – uniting – democratic – modern – independent! While the 1,426 billionaires of the world are celebrating their rankings at the Forbes Magazine’s 2013 List of Billionaires,…
Since 2008, the latest crisis of capitalism has given birth to a new wave of horizontal and collective forms of organising in the United States: The occupation of the State Capitol of Wisconsin in early…
Delhi. Early this morning, on the busy bylanes of Zamrudpur (Delhi), I passed a young girl being taken to school on a cycle-rickshaw. In her lap she held fast to her day’s homework. It was…
When President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono hosts bilateral talks with visiting Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Friday the two leaders are expected to evaluate the progress of the Indonesia-Japan Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) to…
Corruption and Cover-Up Lead to SPREAD – Rather than Containment – of Radiation from Fukushima Disaster We’ve previously noted: Japan has severely underplayed the amount of radiation from Fukushima, putting Japanese residents and U.S. navy sailors in jeopardy…
In November the largest chunk of new jobs came from retail and wholesale trade. Businesses gearing up for Christmas sales added 65,700 jobs or 45% of November’s 146,000 jobs gain. With December sales a disappointment,…
Recent legal moves by the governments of Ethiopia, Indonesia and the Philippines to protect their nationals working in the Persian Gulf Arab states point to this harrowing fact: the Arab slave trade in foreign workers…
Miners killed while strikes spread to public sector A series of wildcat and protected strikes have been occurring in South Africa over the last two months. Industrial actions have been taking place in the platinum,…
South African Workers Continue Strikes at Marikana and Other Facilities: Scene of mass killings still not reopened while work stoppages spread Bosses at Lonmin Platinum PLC in Marikana have still not been able to return to…