Struggle News Worldwide

by Radhika Menon, Counter Currents, 23 May 2008
In Uttrakhand today, what does it require for you to be locked up in jail, in solitary confinement with an armed constabulary [...]

This is Zimbabwe, 22 May 2008
This very distressing information alert from Advocacy & Community Organizing Centre for Community Development In Zimbabwe (CCDZ), via SW Radio Africa:
We can’t believe that the youthful, soft-spoken,humble, truthful, dreadlocked Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) activist, Tonderai Ndira is no more. Today we give this eulogy for a courageous men who [...]

International Trade Union Federation, 19 May 2008
Brussels, 19 May 2008 (ITUC OnLine): Zimbabwean High Court Judge, Justice Ben Hlatshwayo, today granted Z$20 billion bail each to two Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) leaders’ who are facing charges of “inciting the public to rise against the government and communicating falsehoods.” The judge’s decision comes after [...]

by the Sramik Sangram Committee, translated and published in Sanhati 18 May 2008, republished by Hydrarchy 18 May 2008
A fugitive criminal is ruling roost in Nandigram, directing a huge armed force of party cadres. A police officer waves and gives a beaming smile to the criminal while passing by in his jeep — a picture [...]

Sanhati
1. Nandigram on the eve of the Panchayet Elections - A MASUM report
2. They insist your show must be cancelled! - cultural coercion in a post-Nandigram Bengal

by Daniel Denvir, first published in Upside Down World, 8 May 2008, republished in Indymedia, 9 May 2008
Ecuadorian police detained five journalists associated with Ecuador Indymedia late Tuesday night, May 6th. Four of the five were released from custody on Wednesday afternoon. The government says that the four activists were detained because of their relationship [...]

Report by Al Mezan, republished in the Electronic Intifada, 28 April 2008
Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) killed four children and their mother when they shelled their home in Ezbet Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip today. Another man was killed in the attack which occurred during an IOF incursion in different parts of the town [...]

My Word is My Weapon, 27 April 2008
Police Previously Promised They Wouldn’t Raid the Chiapas Town
Police carried out an early morning operation today directed at adherents to the Zapatistas’ Other Campaign, detaining three men whose whereabouts remain unknown. The Fray Bartolomé de Las Casas Human Rights Center (”Frayba” is currently attempting to locate the three [...]