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2 April 2008
The devastating effects of biofuels
Heavily promoted by Bush and Blair as a carbon neutral alternative to fossil fuels, biofuels are now being questioned over their environmental impact on rain forests and on food supplies...
25 March 2008
World events and their repercussions
Two extracts from a summary of the present world situation and world relations, written by Peter Taaffe for a meeting taking place this month of representatives from European sections of the Committee for a Workers' International...
25 March 2008
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On the 15 March 2008 anti-war demonstration, photo Paul Mattsson |
12 March 2008
Five years of hell: The billions wasted on war and nuclear weapons should be spent on improving public services...
12 March 2008
Iraq, Afghanistan: The bitter fruits of war and occupation
FIVE LONG, bloody years of war and occupation, led by US imperialism, has left Iraq as a dangerous, violent and divided society, despite promises of stability and democracy...
4 March 2008
The Three Trillion Dollar War, co-authored by Nobel prize-winning economist and former Clinton adviser, Joseph Stiglitz, shows the true economic cost of the war in Iraq...
27 February 2008
Feature: Fidel Castro's resignation opens up new chapter
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Fidel Castro in his days as a guerrila |
20 February 2008
Members of the Offshore Industry Liaison Committee (OILC) have voted overwhelmingly to merge with the rail and maritime union RMT...
13 February 2008
Chad conflict - part of a wider power struggle
BODIES LITTERED the streets of N'Djamena, Chad's capital city, after three days of intense fighting between president Idriss Déby's forces and 1,200 Chadian rebels, earlier this month.... By Dave Carr
6 February 2008
Shell output is down, but profits hit new record
OIL GIANT Shell, the world's second biggest quoted oil company, has just recorded the largest annual profits in British corporate history...
10 January 2008
Renationalise the energy industry
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Flooded with Debt, cartoon by Suz www.squashdonkey.co.uk |
11 October 2007
Darfur bloodshed fuelled by land and oil grab
A CONSTRUCTION boom fuelled by oil revenues is sweeping through Khartoum, the capital of Sudan... By Alison Hill
11 October 2007
Iraq occupation: Brown's token gesture
GORDON BROWN'S statement on Iraq, announcing a reduction of 1,000 serving British troops by Christmas (2,500 by spring 'depending on conditions'), will do little to appease anti-war campaigners and ordinary Iraqis.... By Simon Carter
24 August 2007
World economy fundamentally unsound
Editorial: Over the last week, billions of pounds have been wiped off share values worldwide as stock markets plunged...
19 July 2007
Bolivian oil workers request solidarity
Bolivia: WHEN 300 low-paid contract workers at the Gualberto Villarroel oil refinery in Cochabamba, Bolivia formed their own union - the Sindicato Mixto de Trabajadores Gualberto Villarroel - the leaders and most active members of thi...
16 July 2007
The Committee for a Workers' International has received this appeal. A hunger strike is due to start on Tuesday and we need letters/e/mails of solidarity...
5 July 2007
Why the United Nations fails the test of internationalism
DESPITE THE failure of the United Nations (UN) since its inception to prevent and resolve wars and conflicts, and its inability to eradicate crushing poverty and prevent climate change on a world scale, many (including those ...
5 July 2007
Iran: Riots over petrol rationing
ON 26 June, the Iranian regime implemented its secret plan of rationing petrol and increasing the price...
28 June 2007
World economy grows but workers lose out
IN 2006 the world economy grew by 5.4%. That annual rate is comparable with growth in the years of the post-war economic upswing of the 1960s. The ability...
28 June 2007
USA: Protesters demand military recruiters out of schools
Below is a report of an anti-war action against military recruiters in school, which Socialist Alternative (CWI in US) played an important role in organising....
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