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Exports and profits continue to rise but workers left behind Three decades ago, Bangladesh created a network of export zones to attract foreign investment with tax incentives and other benefits.…
Regime faces intensified opposition protests Thousands of people demonstrated in the Yemeni capital of Sanaa last Thursday in the largest protest against corruption and lack of democratic reform in what…
New, stronger wave of protests across the country 22/11/2012 Cuts in fuel subsidies provoke mass eruption from below Since Tuesday 13 November a massive and unprecedented wave of protests…
Formation of new government fails to stop weekly opposition protests 16/11/2011 For real change through mass action of working class, youth, unemployed and poor! Last month, a new Jordan…
Revolutionary movement under threat 28/09/2011 Regime unleashes counter-revolutionary violence The revolutionary movement in Yemen has continued for nine months unabated. But President Saleh is still in power and more…
Bangladesh appeared on the world map as an independent country in 1971, some 40 years ago, after a 9 month long civil war (liberation struggle) in which nearly one million…
15/05/2011 The vicious regime in Bahrain has arrested and detained doctors and medical staff for treating injured protesters during recent clashes with security forces. 47 are to be tried…
Regime unleashes violence against anti-government protests 28/03/2011 Regime ‘reforms’ fail to stop growing demonstrations On Friday 26 March, more than 1,500 demonstrators demanding reforms clashed with a group of…
Saudi troops to suppress protesters 19/03/2011 2,000 Saudi Arabian troops bolster beleaguered Sunni ruling class Bahrain’s monarchy has seen its grip on the country severely weakened by large protests…
Thousands protest in Amman 17/03/2011 Reforms do not go far enough Rukhsana Manzoor Last Sunday, 13 March, some 6,000 Jordanians took to the streets of Amman in the biggest pro-democracy…
State forces brutally attack protesters 16/03/2011 Autocratic regime invites Saudi Arabia forces to help quell protests es, including the use of tanks, attacked anti-government protesters in the centre of Bahrain’s…
’Day of Rage’ 15/03/2011 Thousands of police deployed on streets to stop protests Khalid Bhatti Socialist Movement Pakistan (CWI), Lahore The regime in Saudi Arabia sent troops into Bahrain yesterday,…