US: Being black and young continues to be a crime

15.08.2014 After 4 days of protests, dozens of arrests and two people wounded by the police (one of them in critical condition), anger continues on the streets of Ferguson, a small place in the state of Missouri. "No justice, no peace," "Hands up, don't shoot," "Where is Mike? Everywhere!" are some of the slogans of the mobilizations and protests unleashed by the murder of Mike Brown. On Saturday, August 9, in the city of Ferguson (Missouri, US), a cop murdered the African American teenager Mike Brown, 18 years old. The police stated at the beginning that Brown had attacked the police officer, but all the witnesses claim that the young man was unarmed, and they shot him when he had his hands in the air (an obvious sign to show that one is unarmed). Mike had recently finished high school and was getting ready to enter university the following Monday.

US Local Elections

Victory of the Left in Seattle

29.11.2013 The elections in several states that took place in the US at the beginning of November expressed what several media described as a "turn to the left" in the center of US politics.

Russia

A shameful sentence against the Pussy Riot feminist activists in Russia

19.08.2012 On February 21, this year, the Russian feminist punk band Pussy Riot carried out an action repudiating the Orthodox Church and recently re-elected President Vladimir Putin.

French and British flags in Benghazi

Sarkozy and Cameron reaffirm the imperialist plan for Libya

27.09.2011 Since last week, the picture of French President Nicolas Sarkozy and British Prime Minister David Cameron in Benghazi, next to the leaders of the Libyan National Transitional Council (NTC), has been going around the world.

US

Obama’s defeat in the mid-term elections [Part 1 of 2]

08.11.2010 The big Republican victory shows a big political setback for Barack Obama's administration, rather than the strength of the Republicans. The White House was expecting the "backlash" from the population, that is suffering the consequences of the biggest economic crisis since the 1930 recession.

United States: New threats against immigrants

Soldiers and racists are patrolling the border

27.07.2010 The White House is responding to Governor Jan Brewer's law and to the intensification of activity by racist and xenophobic groups with ... an unenthusiastic lawsuit. This is how Obama plans to confront a law that social, political and human rights organizations are already condemning as the institutionalization of racism!

Against hunger wages

Strike and workers’ mobilization in Bangladesh

03.07.2010 On June 21, in Bangladesh, more than 50,000 working men and women mobilized on the outskirts of Dhaka, the capital. This mobilization, which blocked one of the main highways that connect the capital to the northern part of the country, was the culmination of two weeks of protests, strikes and street actions in the main industrial districts.

Latin America

Peru: Alan García represses the miners

15.04.2010 At least five dead is the toll left by the repression ordered by Peruvian President Alan García against the miners that were blockading the roads in southern Peru. The strike by the so-called artisanal miners began on April 5, was called against Emergency Decree which declares artisanal mining in the southern region of Peru illegal, in order to classify it as "formal mining."

Europe

Italy: New workers’ responses

17.02.2010 The announcement of the closure (temporary, in principle) of two plants in Italy belonging to the US aluminum company Alcoa ignited the protest by Alcoa workers while unemployment, especially affecting young people, is growing in Europe.

Europe

General strike in Greece

13.02.2010 Offices, schools, universities, and public hospitals were brought to a standstill by a general strike on February 10. This strike, called by the main public-sector workers' union ADEDI, confronts the austerity package of the government of the "socialist" Giorgios Papandreou.

U.S.

A new escalation in Afghanistan

10.12.2009 In his speech on Tuesday, December 1, in front of the West Point military academy cadets, President Barack Obama confirmed the sending of 30,000 more soldiers to Afghanistan.

United States

The autoworkers say NO to Ford

07.11.2009 Autoworkers organized in the UAW (United Auto Workers) rejected a proposal from the union to make new concessions to benefit the company.

In Barak Obama’s United States

The continuation of the Bush legacy

07.06.2009

US: Barack Obama becomes President:

"New era" or imperialist continuity?

14.02.2009 Amidst great expectations in the United States and overseas, on Tuesday, January 20, Barack Obama took the oath as the 44th President...

Economic crisis

10 million unemployed workers in the United States

20.11.2008

United States

The social crisis is already here

03.10.2008 On the impact and social consequences of the crisis

US

Workers and the Crisis

06.06.2008 Hurricane Katrina, which destroyed New Orleans in 2006, revealed a society where millions of poor people are marginalized, among whom African-Americans and Latinos are a disproportionate majority...

United States

New attacks against the immigrants

29.09.2007 In a context of uneasiness maintained with the foreign policy of George W. Bush's government and increasing worries because of the fall of the real estate market and the financial crisis, millions of immigrants in the US live and work in a virtual state of siege...

United States

Elvira Arellano is arrested and deported

05.09.2007 New blow against immigrants in the US...

United States

Massacre in Virginia

24.04.2007