Tens of thousands of Jews and Arabs demonstrated in Tel Aviv in a militant protest against the war on Gaza on January 3.

Around the world there has been shock and anger at the barbaric brutality of the Israeli government’s onslaught on the Gaza strip and horror at the impact of the random missile attacks on Israeli civilians.

Around the world there has been shock and anger at the barbaric brutality of the Israeli government’s onslaught on the Gaza strip and horror at the impact of the random missile attacks on Israeli civilians. As in the Lebanon in 2006 the Israeli air assault is wiping out whole families in the name of “peace”.

More than 1.5 million people live in the "open air prison camp" that is Gaza. For the last sixteen months the blockade of the Israeli regime has intensified the nightmare - a majority of the population are unemployed and suffering from malnutrition. Now the "prison guards" are bombing the prison - resulting in the deaths of many hundreds of Palestinians, including children.

Like the rest of the world, there is boiling anger in Lebanon among the masses at the Israeli state’s brutal attack on Gaza.

Israel’s government’s rule has been a chain of scandals and failures, most recently the impact of the world capitalist crisis. Now they are trying to save themselves from defeat in February’s elections by means of a wholesale slaughter of Palestinians in this long planned attack.

We publish this interview with Mexican workers in struggle which was conducted by members of the CWI in Latin America for our Spanish web page mundosocialista.net. We are sure that this interview will be of interest to our readers, but it does not necessarily fully reflect the ideas and programme of the CWI.

After the general strike on Wednesday, December 10, Greece finds itself, for the 7th day, gripped by youth and social revolt. The main thing now is to see how the mass movement can move forward.

Last Saturday evening, a group of young school students shouted at a police car that was passing by a cafe in which they were sitting, in the center of Athens, and threw two plastic 0,5 litre water bottles at the police car. The two policemen (special guards) stopped the car some distance away, came out of the car and approached the school students. One of the officers pulled out a gun and fired at the youths, killing one of them. The two policemen then simply turned their backs and walked away!

A massive demonstration against education cuts organised by the teachers’ unions saw over 60,000 teachers, parents and students take to the streets of Dublin today.

The U.S. presidential election campaign has opened a new chapter for U.S. imperialism. With the Democratic candidate, Barack Obama, the clear favorite to win the race to the White House, what will this new situation mean for U.S. foreign policy?

Evo Morales’ MAS (Movement towards Socialism) government won a crushing victory in the re-call referendum, which took place on 10 August 2008. Following this victory, the right-wing reactionary forces in the eastern provinces of the “media luna,” went on the offensive.

Rather than the Olympic movement’s self-professed ideals of "internationalism" and "fair play", the Games are about two at first sight contradictory forces: nationalistic flag-waving and capitalist globalization.

China faces the most terrifying ecological crisis in the world. There are no parallels in peacetime for such monumental degradation of a country’s natural resources, water and land.

World stock markets are again reeling, this time on rumors that the two largest financial institutions in the world are technically insolvent. Their collapse would represent a financial earthquake, dwarfing previous financial shocks such as the March collapse of Bear Stearns.