The movement against corporate globalisation in the United States faces an important test at the January 31-February 4 meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in New York: has the wave of "anti-terrorist" hysteria crippled it?
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The following appeal for May 1 to be an international day of action against the Unites States government's bogus "war on terrorism" and in opposition to the military intervention in Mindanao was issued by the Solidarity of Filipino Workers (BMP)
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Despite being the biggest in the US energy business and seventh biggest among all US firms before its December 2 collapse, Enron had not paid income tax in four of the five years before 2000, according to Citizens for Tax Justice.
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A trial of 42 women accused of violating Portugal's strict anti-abortion laws has resulted in a string of convictions, including eight-and-a-half years in prison for Maria do Ceu Ribeiro. Ribeiro, a midwife, was convicted on
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The Indonesian government's implementation of policies demanded by the International Monetary Fund — the reduction of subsidies on petrol and kerosene, as well as on electricity and telephone charges — has caused widespread price
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The United States has offered to spread its "war on terrorism" to Nepal. A US official told Associated Press on January 19 that during a visit to the Himalayan kingdom US Secretary of State Colin Powell had offered increased US
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The "anti-terrorism" campaign led by the United States is being used as the excuse for attacks on human rights and civil liberties by governments around the world, Human Rights Watch concluded in its annual world survey released on
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The United States government and military is prepared to exploit the horror of the September 11 mass murders in order to win public acceptance for the use of nuclear weapons in the "war against terrorism" and "rogue states". A report
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No-one predicted the September 11 terrorist attacks in the United States. However, it was predictable that the wealthy elite in the First World would attempt to use those drastic events to find a way to derail the growing revolt
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The movement against corporate globalisation is anything but dead: December 13-14, Brussels, Belgium: European Trade Union Confederation mobilises 100,000 trade unionists; global justice demonstration of 25,000; December 19, Argentina: Mass
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Colombia reached the brink of all-out war as the government threatened to end three-year-old peace negotiations with the left-wing guerilla organisation, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). Buoyed by increased US
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A heated dispute which broke out in November within the New Zealand Alliance over its MPs support for the sending of SAS troops to participate in the US-led war in Afghanistan appears to have ended in a compromise. After a vigorous