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Honduran teachers’ protests trigger repression, fight-back

March 29, 2011 By W. T. Whitney, Jr.

A strike by teachers in Honduras, which has led to a confrontation with the right-wing government, could have riipple effects.

Protests assail rigged trial of Chile indigenous leaders

March 28, 2011 By Emile Schepers

The conviction of four leaders of the Mapuche indigenous group in Chile is drawing international and national condemnation of Chile's right wing government and President Sebastian Piñera.

British workers stage massive protest against cuts

March 28, 2011 By John Millington

On the streets of London on Saturday three-quarters of a million people staged the biggest protest yet in the fightback against the Tory-led coalition's brutal cuts program.

Mock border wall separates campus at the University of Arizona

March 28, 2011 By Alexander Monarrez Maldonado

Faculty, staff and students at the University of Arizona are now finding how inconvenient and inhumane it is to have a wall separating human beings from one another.

UAW delegates vow to build mass movement

March 28, 2011 By John Rummel

DETROIT - The United Auto Workers Special Bargaining Convention, held here last week, was like nothing this reporter has attended before: it was three days of preparing the union to do battle with Republicans and Wall...