Is the “globalization” that George Bush supports good or, at least, inevitable, as people from the capitalist class claim? And what impact has it had on women workers? 
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March 11, 2006
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The African National Congress won two-thirds of the vote in the March 1 local elections in South Africa, handily defeating its closest rival, the Democratic Alliance, which won 16 percent. The Inkatha Freedom Party won 8 percent, and the Independent Democrats, 2 percent.
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The 1950s marked a turbulent period in the anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa. At the beginning of the decade, the apartheid regime banned the South African Communist Party, a longtime, militant foe of racism and inequality. Nonetheless, its struggles and the struggles of others continued in many different forms.
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WASHINGTON — Pundits opined that India is the one place in the world George W. Bush would be “warmly welcomed.” And he was, by huge throngs of Indian protesters demonstrating against his policies of war and U.S. domination, rejecting Bush’s claim that his spreading democracy and ending terrorism.
En español: Bush se enfrenta gigante protestas en India
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There is no doubt that the recent legislative council elections in Palestine were an electoral coup. Due to the nature of this coup and because of the current conditions at the regional and international level, it will be extremely difficult for Hamas to assume the responsibility of forming the next Palestinian government alone.
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El Senado de Estados Unidos, con los republicanos encabezándolo, empezó un nuevo sistema de servidumbre para la mano de obra importada a través de una propuesta de extender masivamente la categorías de “trabajadores no inmigrantes” extranjeros, completo con las estructuras represivas para integrar a los trabajadores indocumentados al sistema y mantenerlos bajo control estricto.
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Los dueños de la empresa son los culpables de la muerte de 65 mineros dijo un dirigente sindical después de una explosión el 19 de febrero que enterró a 65 mineros bajo la tierra en San Juan Sabinas, estado de Coahuila, a 85 millas al sur de la frontera con Estados Unidos.
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Las protestas en Puerto Rico contra el FBI por los allanamientos a los hogares de líderes independentistas, bajo lo que todos hoy dicen fue el pretexto de prevenir un posible ataque terrorista, que resultó en atropellos físico contra periodistas del país continúan en esta colonia dominada por Estados Unidos. Una marcha y manifestación de miles en el área de San Juan que fue a parar ante los tribunales de Estados Unidos en Puerto Rico donde el FBI tiene sus oficinas en Puerto Rico.
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Commercial news reporters and pundits have lately made a great to-do about the 50th anniversary of Nikita Khrushchev’s famous “secret” speech denouncing Stalin’s leadership in the old Soviet Union. They credit the speech with beginning a process that eventually ended with the downfall of the entire socialist structure of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe.
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Iraq: Healing the past and present
India: Recycling plastic waste
Ecuador: People vs. oil
Chad: Darfur refugees seek peace
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