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World Bank report highlights poverty in Africa

Despite reports for the last several years that there have been significant declines in poverty in sub-Saharan Africa, a recently…

October 25, 2015

French unions defend workers’ actions

The pictures flashed around the world Oct. 5. Faced with angry workers who tore off their bosses’ white collars, top…

October 25, 2015

The Indonesian bloodbath, Part 2

In Part 1 of this article, we wrote about the U.S. role behind the scenes in bringing about the horrendous…

October 23, 2015

Freedom will come to Palestine

The situation in the Middle East has been a hotbed of chaos for some time now. From the unjust wars…

October 22, 2015

U.N. Security Council authorizes EU naval attack in the Mediterranean on migrant ships

A further militarization in the Mediterranean has been approved through a resolution passed by the U.N. Security Council on Oct.…

October 22, 2015

Layoffs still loom over industry as South African mine strike ends

An agreement between the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) and several coal sector firms ended a more than one-week strike…

October 22, 2015

Moataz Zawahreh, PRESENTE!

Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine Comrade Moataz Zawahreh, a 27-year-old Palestinian refugee from Dheisheh camp, was shot and…

October 21, 2015

Third Intifada in Palestine inspires world solidarity

Oct. 19 -- The heroic resistance of the Palestinian people, especially the youth, to the brutal onslaught of Zionist occupation…

October 20, 2015

Long live the Intifada

Oct. 19 -- In every single part of Palestine -- from the West Bank and Jerusalem to Occupied Palestine since…

October 20, 2015

Tu You You and the fight against malaria

Earlier this month, Tu You You was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for her discovery of artemisinin,…

October 18, 2015