Supporters of Bani Walid’s people demonstrated outside the General National Congress parliament in Tripoli, Libya, on Oct. 21 calling for a halt to the town’s siege. Bani Walid’s 80,000 people were a bastion of support for the former Jamahiriya government led by the martyred Col. Moammar Gadhafi. Protesters attempted to enter the building but were [...]
Puppets use chemical weapons against Bani Walid, Libya
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Abayomi Azikiwe October 26, 2012 » Add the first comment.
Colombian Asotrecol worker talks with WW
Jorge Parra is president of the Association of Injured Workers and Ex-workers of General Motors Colombia, known as Asotrecol. He was interviewed on Oct. 7 by WW reporter Martha Grevatt, a 25-year Chrysler worker. Parra and other members of Asotrecol had been on a hunger strike to get GM to meet with them. Workers World: [...]
Colombian peace talks begin
The eyes of the world were glued to their TV screens. TeleSUR and the BBC in Spanish transmitted live the almost three-hour-long press conference of the representatives of FARC-EP and the Colombian government on Oct. 18, at the end of the establishment of the Peace Negotiation table in Oslo, Norway. All in Latin America have [...]
‘NO’ to austerity
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Gene Clancy October 24, 2012 » Add the first comment.
The story is the same across Europe. Governments are imposing devastating austerity measures in the service of the big banks as a severe global recession deepens. Yet, increasingly, the continent’s workers are responding with massive, militant demonstrations and general strikes. In Britain, tens of thousands of protesters descended on London; Belfast, in the north of [...]
Imperialists prepare for war in Mali
Western imperialist states, with the support of the United Nations Security Council, are preparing for a full-scale military intervention in the West African state of Mali. Since March, the country has been in a severe political crisis after a military coup and its effective partitioning into north and south. The French government of Francois Hollande [...]
Libya becomes focus of U.S. election
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Abayomi Azikiwe October 22, 2012 » Add the first comment.
One year since the brutal assassination of former Libyan leader Col. Moammar Gadhafi, the Republican Party is using Libya’s political crisis in an attempt to defeat President Barack Obama in the Nov. 6 election. Both U.S. ruling-class parties backed the 2011 war against this oil-producing nation that had maintained the highest standard of living in [...]
Cholera & hunger in Haiti meet militant resistance
As famine lurks throughout Haiti and cholera daily kills the weak, the very young and the old, the response of the Haitian people has been growing militancy. In massive numbers they have taken to the streets to demand an end to the corrupt regime of President Michel Martelly. The Haitian people want an end to [...]
People win battle with Power Authority in Puerto Rico
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Berta Joubert-Ceci October 20, 2012 » Add the first comment.
Puerto Rico’s people won a vital environmental struggle when acting President of the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA) Josué Colón publicly withdrew a request for a permit to allow the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to construct a 92-mile-long gas pipeline. Puerto Rico is barely 106 miles long and 37 wide. Since right-wing, pro-business [...]
U.S.-NATO driven to wage war on Syria
Turkey’s war jets forced down a civilian airliner flying from Moscow to Damascus. Thirty-five Russians and Syrians were passengers on the Oct. 10 flight, endangered by the action. U.S. spokesperson Victoria Nuland immediately supported Turkey’s act of air piracy. Also, some 150 U.S. special troops moved into Syria’s southern neighbor, Jordan. NATO and the major [...]
Labor actions spread as South African truckers end strike
The 43,000-strong truckers’ strike ended on Oct. 11. An agreement with the South African Transport and Allied Workers’ Union, a Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) affiliate, resulted in 27 percent pay increases over three years. This was announced by the Road Freight Employers’ Association, which had already reached an agreement with three smaller [...]
