General secretary of the General Federation of Trade Unions GAWAIN LITTLE calls for support and participation in the national partnership organised to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the 1926 general strike
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Bangladesh at a crossroads: the aftermath of a people's revolution
As an interim government takes shape, MOSHFIQUR NOOR examines the challenges ahead and the delicate balance between rapid reform and political stability, in the first of a three-part series
University students shout slogans during a protest to demand justice for the victims killed in the recent countrywide deadly clashes and ask for their campuses to be opened, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, July 31, 2024
After brutal police crackdowns on pensioners and the forced approval of secret IMF deals, trade unions are finally responding to grassroots pressure and fighting back against savage neoliberal reforms, reports BERT SCHOUWENBURG
Bizarrely, Trump’s latest attacks now include the National Zoo, but his real and racist agenda is to strip everything black from the country’s cultural institutions, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
The transformation of a stable secular state into a fractured ruin largely ruled by Western-backed fundamentalists exposes the hollow nature of ‘multipolarity’ and the absence of principled anti-imperialism today, writes ZOLTAN ZIGEDY
Facing economic turmoil, Jim Callaghan’s government rejected Tony Benn’s alternative economic strategy in favour of cuts that paved the way for Thatcherism — and the cuts-loving Labour of the present era, writes KEITH FLETT
The economic value of disability benefits far outweighs their cost, argues Dr DYLAN MURPHY
As tensions rise in the Middle East, the role of Iran in the region’s political balance becomes ever more significant. STEVE BISHOP assesses the current situation
THE extraordinary rapidity with which a student revolt around the issue of quotas for jobs has morphed into a mass uprising of millions and toppled the authoritarian regime of Sheikh Hasina and the ruling Awami League of nearly 16 years has taken everybody by surprise.
Even the student leaders did not expect such a turn of events. What then turned a seemingly technical issue of jobs into a political earthquake that has seen the prime minister scurrying to board a military aircraft and flee the country?
The move from protests on employment issues to a mass upsurge, from July 14 to August 5 — a mere three weeks — was triggered by an answer that Hasina gave in reply to a journalist on the quota movement.
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