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Laid off and retired auto workers at the now shuttered Windsor GM Transmission Plant are outraged at a sweetheart deal the company has struck with local officials of the Canadian Auto Worker union.

Despite the government’s promises of reconciliation, the climate of repression continues in Thailand, with emergency rule still in force and key opposition leaders either in jail or being hunted by security forces.

More than two million workers and youth demonstrated in 220 towns and cities across France on Tuesday in opposition to cuts in pensions being imposed by President Nicolas Sarkozy.

The three-week strike by 1.3 million South African public service workers, including teachers, hospital workers and civil servants, ended on Monday when unions instructed the strikers to return to work pending further discussions.

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in California dismissed a case by victims of the CIA’s “extraordinary rendition” program against a unit of Boeing.

Around 10,000 maintenance staff, drivers, signallers and station staff employed by London Underground took strike action beginning Monday evening in opposition to plans to impose 800 job losses.

Tuesday’s protest gave an inkling of the potential for a working class counter-offensive against Indian big business and the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance government. But those who called and officially led it, India’s labor federations, have a diametrically opposed agenda.

As talks on a government coalition collapse, far-right Geert Wilders is emerging as the kingmaker in Dutch politics.

Unions have policed a four-week ban imposed by the Fair Work Australia tribunal on industrial action by 1,500 sugar workers fighting to defend wages and conditions on Queensland’s North Coast.

President Barack Obama’s Wednesday speech on the economy in Cleveland, Ohio was an exercise in deceit and demagogy.

With no mass support for any of the major parties, the political system will move further to the right, assuming an even more anti-democratic and manipulated character.

Dozens of houses burned down in Detroit Tuesday as fires blazed through all parts of the city, overwhelming the local fire department.

D’Artagnan Collier, the SEP’s candidate for Michigan state legislature, issued the following statement on the fires that swept through Detroit’s neighborhoods Tuesday evening.

A Christian cult’s plan to mark September 11 by burning the Koran has triggered official condemnations reflecting Washington’s fear that it will fuel the growing opposition to the US occupation of Afghanistan.

The call for more troops is calculated to increase political pressure on various European governments, and non-NATO US allies such as Australia, to boost their contributions to the occupation of Afghanistan.

The prime minister delivered an extraordinary speech yesterday evening which comprised a series of lies on the meaning of the election crisis and its outcome, and overtures towards the Liberal-National opposition.

Rising US-China rivalry in Asia was expressed last week when Beijing pushed for Pyongyang to open up to foreign investors, while Washington announced new sanctions that would impede such plans.

The three novels by Swedish author Stieg Larsson, published in the US as The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire, and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest, have attracted much attention around the world.