There’s a new religion in the United States. Despite the toll it is taking, the human victims of this sacrificial cult – let’s call it capitalism – are largely invisible.

Reactionaries started the frenzy about building a mosque near the World Trade Centre site in New York. But the willingness of small-l liberals to give ground to the racists has allowed the bigotry to thrive.

There is something truly inspiring about seeing thousands of mostly black South Africans blockading roads and hurling rocks at police in Soweto, Johannesburg, again.

Jason Farbman reports from Bolivia on the indigenous movement’s challenges to the government of President Evo Morales.

Usually, when one hears of conflict in Lebanon, it is between the militarist sectarian forces that were in bedded into the Lebanese state’s constitution by the occupying French in 1943 or conflict with the aggressive regional power, Israel. Not this time.

The floods across Pakistan threaten the lives and safety of more than 13 million people. But the response has been woefully inadequate – from the Pakistani government and internationally.

The value that the “international community” place on the lives of Cambodian people was starkly illustrated by the recent verdict in the trial of Khmer Rouge leader Kaing Guek Eav.

David Whitehouse explains the backdrop to a labour upsurge in China’s auto industry.

At the Socialism 2010 conference in Chicago, Antonis Davenellos looked at the background to the struggle against austerity – and the prospects for a revived workers movement in Greece and beyond.

Fresh from its bloody suppression of the Red Shirt demonstrators’ occupation of central Bangkok, the unelected Abhisit government decided on Tuesday 6 July to extend the repressive emergency decree for another three months. 

The fallout from Rolling Stone reporter Michael Hastings' exposé of Gen. Stanley McChrystal shows how pathetic the mainstream media really is. 

Behind the electric atmosphere, the bright lights of the stadiums and the singing and dancing on the streets, there is another side to the “rainbow nation” that the authorities are anxious to keep hidden.

On May 29, over 50,000 demonstrators marched in Phoenix, Arizona, against new racial profiling laws targeting Latino immigrants.

A strike of 2 million public sector workers has seen Spain become the latest scene of Europe’s rising social conflict.