International

  • A leading Egyptian socialist was arrested and then released after being beaten along with two other activists in Alexandria. February 10, 2012

  • With the latest maneuvers by the West blocked in a UN Security Council vote, the regime of Bashar al-Assad is seeking to drown Syria's revolution in blood. February 7, 2012

  • Protests erupted in Egypt over a soccer-match massacre that many people believe was orchestrated by the military. February 7, 2012

  • An Egyptian socialist looks back on developments since the revolution began one year ago--and ahead to what comes next for the struggle. February 2, 2012

  • An activist describes Bahrain's complex relationship to the dynamics unleashed a year ago by the Egyptian revolution. February 1, 2012

  • At a state-of-the-art facility in Northern Ireland, the FBI has plans to learn counter-terrorism tactics from the British. February 1, 2012

  • A Canadian union activist and socialist describes the prospects for labor in the face of an all-out bosses' offensive. January 31, 2012

  • An Egyptian activist and blogger talks about last year's revolution and why she came to the U.S. to share her experiences. January 30, 2012

  • An international campaign has been launched to oppose acts repression in Egypt and to stand with the Egyptian people. January 26, 2012

  • Egypt's Revolutionary Socialists describe the challenges ahead as the Egyptian revolution begins its second year. January 25, 2012

  • A delegation of U.S. academics traveled to Palestine last year to learn about the challenges of education under Israeli occupation. January 24, 2012

  • A Thai dissident looks at the failure of the Peua Thai Party to deliver on its promises of pro-democracy reforms. January 24, 2012

  • The real history of the Irish hunger strikers in 1981 isn't about a few political figures, but masses of people moved to act. January 23, 2012

  • A lockout at an Ontario locomotive factory owned by U.S.-based Caterpillar is putting Canadian unions to the test. January 18, 2012

  • Journalists should go where the silences are. In Kashmir, that means reporting on the Indian military's human rights violations. January 18, 2012

  • Another Iranian scientist has been killed as part of an assassination campaign targeting the country's nuclear program. January 17, 2012

  • Action by millions of workers has brought business and transportation in key Nigerian cities to a complete standstill. January 12, 2012

  • A Greek socialist takes up the debate about how the left should answer the question: Keep the euro as Greece's currency or return to the drachma? January 11, 2012

  • The uprising in Syria is being hammered by state repression--while Western governments seek to manipulate the movement to their own ends. January 10, 2012

  • The fate of the labor movement in the Philippines hangs on the outcome of an airline employees' union struggle. January 10, 2012

  • Tensions are escalating again in the Persian Gulf region over U.S.-led military and economic threats against Iran. January 9, 2012

  • Egypt's military rulers have escalated a deadly crackdown against those standing up for democracy and justice--but the revolution has not been silenced. January 5, 2012

  • Chicago will host the elite of the global elite in mid-May as the Group of Eight meets alongside the NATO military alliance. January 5, 2012

  • Angry that they have not received accurate information about the radiation threat, the people of Fukushima have taken matters into their own hands. January 3, 2012

  • Egypt's Revolutionary Socialists respond to a propaganda campaign aimed at whipping up a hysteria against them. December 23, 2011