A discussion with French socialist John Mullen about the decision of the NPA to include a Muslim who wears the headscarf on their election ticket.

The Iranian rebellion is continuing at the same time that divisions among the ruling establishment grow deeper and harder to hide.

The last eleven years in China have seen escalating class struggle. Since the global economic crisis broke out, the pace of struggle has continued to speed up.

On September 12, called out by Fox News, tens of thousands of "Middle America's" ultra conservative, racist, rotten core rallied on the streets of Washington against the "communist plot" of publicly funded health care.

Trevor Ngwane reports on the rising tide of struggle.

Egypt is presently experiencing its longest and deepest wave of workers' struggle since it won independence from Britain.

In the early morning of June 28, 2009 the Honduran military raided the Presidential Palace in Tegucigalpa, arresting and deporting democratically-elected President Manuel Zelaya to neighbouring Costa Rica.

They say a week is a long time in politics. Apparently it is. In that time, US policy towards Iran can shift from openly discussing the need to obliterate the country to championing the rights of its people.

The crisis of capitalism hits you everywhere you turn in the US. You meet people in their thirties, like Roger, unemployed and with no dole. Roger's health plan? Stay healthy or die - along with over 46 million others and growing.

Japan's economy has languished since 1991, but in the first three months of 2009, it experienced its worst economic contraction for more than 50 years.

In the biggest mass demonstrations since the overthrow of the US-backed Shah in 1979, millions of people took to the streets of Tehran in June to protest a presidential election widely seen as rigged.

There are still a few on the left in Australia (such as the Democratic Socialist Perspective - the people behind Green Left Weekly) who claim the remaining Stalinist countries like Vietnam, Cuba and North Korea are in some way socialist or workers' states.

Refugees from Sri Lanka have been among the asylum seekers recently prevented from reaching Australia's shores. Many are Tamils, an ethnic minority in Sri Lanka, fleeing a vicious assault by the Sri Lankan military as it attempts to finally crush the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (also known as the Tamil Tigers).