Upcoming EventsNo upcoming events. Exigimos la puesta en libertad inmediata de Diego Cañamero 02:12 May 19 1 comments Pintadas 22:58 May 18 0 comments Pequeño comercio y racismo 06:55 May 18 0 comments Chile: La caída del CAE 09:28 May 17 0 comments YPF: Las primeras letras de una nueva historia 09:25 May 17 0 comments more >> |
international / economy / opinion / analysis Thursday May 17, 2012 19:46 by PaulB
The slow-motion car crash that is the ongoing Eurozone crisis has hit yet another seizure point. The previous weekend’s French and Greek elections, Sunday’s German election in Nordrhein-Westfalen and the threat of a second Greek election next month, has raised the Eurozone stress levels back to panic levels. Hanging over the whole situation is the spectre of a death foretold - a funeral for the vision of the Euro as the party that no-one ever leaves. [Italiano] read full story / add a comment
mashriq / arabia / iraq / community struggles / news report Monday May 14, 2012 17:35 by Ilan S.
All over the West Bank thousands of people took to the streets in support of the hunger striking prisoners. The third intifada collected momentum. It started with hunger strike of administrative prisoners held without trail, with solidarity demos, and joined by 1500 Palestinian prisoners - both in solidarity with the administrative ones and in demand for improving condition of the incarcerated. There were demos and vigils of solidarity daily - both in the occupied territories and within Israel. The weekly demonstrations made it their central theme. After nearly 80 days for the two longest hunger strikers, it seems their death is imminent after the Israeli highest court of "justice" approved of the unyielding refusal of the state to retreat from their administrative jailing. State forces vacillate between harsh repression of demos and restraining - expression of their uncertainty of the evolving third Intifada and mounting international pressure. read full story / add a comment |
|