Striking Mine Workers Face Death Threats
At 10pm on 11 September, the chief negotiator in West Papua’s ongoing Freeport strikes was…More
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Pirates At The Helm In Germany?
German politics has experienced two big shocks in 2011. First came the election of the…More
Why Are The Young People Revolting?
August 2011 marked the end of the United Nations’ first International Year of Youth (IYY).…More
Cairo Rocked By Military Violence
The violence that rocked Cairo last sunday left at least two dozen dead and hundreds…More
How We Changed Our Tune On Tibet
Tibet, for too long confined by China commentators to the "too hard basket", is back…More
The Captain Of A Sinking Ship?
Since the Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez announced in late June he had a cancerous tumour,…More
Somali Famine Not Just A Crisis, But A Crime
Before the end of this year tens of thousands of people in Somalia — possibly…More
Freeport Strikes Could Just Work
Workers at the Freeport McMoRan mine in West Papua resumed strikes on 15 September after…More
Unequal Partners Can't Negotiate
Over the past two weeks the international media have made much of the debate over…More
Wall Street Profits From NYC's Subway Debt
Marching two abreast, blowing high-pitched whistles and chanting militant slogans, they sliced through the crowd…More