Leaked internal correspondence has revealed a deep crisis of morale in the World Bank, with staff fearful of being humiliated by top executives or of being made redundant, incensed at being forced to compete against each other in the
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The images appear thick and fast: a spaceship, a starving child, a computer, a barefoot peasant. The opening shots of a community TV documentary? No. The "Flash" intro sequence on an activist group's web site? No. This was the
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Ecuadoran President Gustavo Noboa has been forced into a partial backdown on International Monetary Fund-mandated prices rises on fuel and transport after massive countrywide protests by indigenous people and unionists reminiscent of
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Suddenly all the triumphalism is gone and the erstwhile "Masters of the Universe" are sounding like whining rich kids whose snowboards have been taken away from them. Over the last decade, the World Economic Forum's annual meeting,
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The Burmese military regime has revealed that it has been in secret talks with opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi since October, the first face-to-face meetings between the Nobel Peace Prize winner and the generals since 1994. But
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After a year-long, increasingly desperate search, the World Trade Organisation's general council has finally confirmed the venue for its next ministerial summit: the Persian Gulf state of Qatar. WTO bureaucrats and rich country
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While corporate media reports focused on "history" being made on the steps on Congress, where George Bush junior was sworn in as the chief executive officer of the world's most powerful state on January 20, there was far more
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For the second time in 15 years, the Philippines people have risen as one to overthrow a corrupt leader. In 1986, millions gathered on EDSA, Manila's main avenue, to demand the resignation of dictator Ferdinand Marcos; on January 20
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Undeterred by an unprecedented crackdown by Swiss police, several thousand anti-capitalist demonstrators have descended on the up-market ski resort town of Davos to protest the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) of top
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Two shockwaves have hit the Central American country of El Salvador in the first weeks of January. One, a massive earthquake which measured 7.6 on the Richter scale, struck on January 13 and killed more than 600 people, devastating
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Bangladesh's 22.3 million landless farmers secured a major win on December 18 when the government agreed to an 11-point charter of demands which labourers' organisations have been fighting for since 1978. The agriculture ministry's
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This week, Green Left Weekly celebrates its 10th birthday. Through a decade of tumult, of wars, revolutions and counter-revolutions, we've lived long and prospered. Our first issue actually appeared on February 28, 1991 but, such