21st Century Socialism

Owners of India’s huge textile and garment industry, in alliance with the Ministry of Textiles, have unveiled a bold plan to ‘cash in on the free trade in textiles and clothing’: increase the exploitation of workers, ban strikes and restrict trade union activity. But workers’ organisations are fighting back. More ...

The worldwide heatwave, which persisted across the United States from July to early August this year, has killed at least 225 people in the USA, 141 of them in California. More ...

Israeli lawyer Lymor Goldstein is in hospital after a three-hour operation in which a plastic-coated steel bullet and shards of bone were removed from his brain. Rina Klauman, another peace activist, was beaten on the head with a gun during the same demonstration and is not yet able to walk. More ...

The world's biggest supermarket chain has been forced to the negotiating table by the world's biggest trade union federation. More ...