Do you have that sinking feeling? As though you have to run faster just to stand still? Are you having increasing problems making ends meet? Well, you鈥檙e not alone. It鈥檚 official 鈥 wages growth has fallen behind inflation. While the economy goes through 鈥渞ecovery鈥, we鈥檙e going backwards.
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Nearly 2000 students from University of California campuses 鈥 including Berkeley, Los Angeles, Santa Cruz, Santa Barbara, Riverside, Irvine and San Diego 鈥 converged on UCLA鈥檚 campus on November 19 to confront the UC Board of Regents as it voted to increase tuition by 32% next school year.
The article published below is a November 25 statement by the New York City Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild. For more information, visit .
Five years ago, Mulrunji Doomadgee was arrested by senior sergeant Chris Hurley for 鈥渄isorderly conduct鈥 and taken to a police cell on Palm Island, near Townsville. Within an hour, the Aboriginal man was dead.
Twenty-eight-year-old Malaysian activist Sivaranjani Manickam will be a special guest at the 鈥淭owards Justice, Sustainability and People鈥檚 Power: Fighting for Socialism in the 21st Century鈥 conference in Sydney in January.
Socialist Alliance members Kiraz Janicke and Federico Fuentes live in Caracas, where they maintain 麻豆传媒 Weekly鈥檚 Venezuela bureau.
In an interview with 麻豆传媒 Weekly, one of the Sri Lankan Tamil asylum seekers who have been stranded on a boat at the Indonesian port of Merak since October 11, Sanjeev 鈥淎lex鈥 Kuhendrarajah, said conditions on the boat are dire.
Officials from the Venezuelan National Land Institute, supported by the National Guard, took over 31 farms across the country on November 23, totalling 19,000 hectares of farmland. The government said the landowners did not have legal titles or were not putting the land to adequate use.
Few know the story of Dr Aafia Siddiqui, who continues to endure humiliating and degrading treatment in US custody.
Twenty-five years after the worst industrial disaster in history, the people of Bhopal, in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, are still fighting for justice.
About 650 workers at the St. Francis Hotel, one of San Francisco鈥檚 oldest and most luxurious, walked out on strike on November 18. This was the third of what may be many strikes to hit San Francisco鈥檚 Class A hotels.
Climate change deniers, conservative politicians and right-wing newspaper columnists were all but incontinent with delight. Flooding the internet in mid-November were thousands of documents and private emails that had been exchanged over more than a decade by prominent climate scientists.
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