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| Brazil
Against expulsions - Reply from the PT leadershipThe British socialist paper Socialist Resistance published a petition calling on the PT to halt its threat to expel Senator Heloisa Helena and three other PT members of parliament. The PT leadership made this response. -> read article... |
| Iraq
Is the Empire being defeated?Despite all the media attention, the true scale of the Iraq conflict is concealed from the public in the West. What is happening is an utterly brutal all-out urban guerrilla war, with savage atrocities being committed by both sides. The scale of this is concealed with reports of “attacks” and “bombings”, apparently by disparate bands of desperadoes. Only occasionally, as with the turning-point battle of Falluja in April, does anything like the real scale of the fighting and the extent of American casualties get fully reported in the press and on TV. -> read article... |
| Netherlands
Left progress, setback for governmentSetbacks for the Christian Democrats and the liberals of the VVD and D66, who have governed the country in coalition since 2002, progress for the social democrats; the European elections in the Netherlands followed the pattern of many other countries, with the government being punished and the opposition making progress. -> read article... |