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From reporters in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan, from chinaworker.info 15th March 2011  The massive earthquake that struck north-eastern Japan on Friday 11 March and ensuing destruction caused by one of the most powerful tsunamis ever witnessed was the “worst crisis since 1945” according to Prime Minister, Naoto Kan. Capitalist governments always try to exploit for their own political reasons the spontaneous mood for unity in the face of disaster.
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 Appeal for workers’ solidarity!
Socialistworld.net appeals for an urgent response to the solidarity appeal, for badly-needed aid and solidarity to help the victims of the recent flood devastation in Pakistan. Activists from the Progressive Workers’ Federation of Pakistan and the TURCP, despite having been badly affected by the disaster, have been heroically struggling to organise aid for those affected in the last weeks. To make donation see the appeal below the following article - 14 million people affected, over 1,500 dead, thousands face starvation - Lackluster government response and incompetence made it worse Khalid Bhatti, Trade Union Rights Campaign (TURCP) and General Secretary, Socialist Movement Pakistan (CWI in Pakistan) |
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 The underground explosion of a massive nuclear bomb on 25 May and the accompanying war-like declarations of the North Korean regime brought it suddenly to the centre of world attention.
It aroused grave fears in the region and internationally of a major confrontation - a war that could include nuclear exchanges. Clare Doyle considers the motives of North Korea's ossified Stalinist regime and what likelihood there is of a regional conflagration. EVEN THE well-informed capitalist press with its behind-the-scenes sources, is at a loss to understand the motives and the perspectives for the behaviour of what they call this 'rogue state' - shrouded in mystery and, according to them, one of the last bastions of 'communism'. |
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There is ferment among Tamil-speaking people worldwide over the slaughter taking place in the north of Sri Lanka. Over 2,000 people have died in recent weeks. All critics of the government are silenced. Nearly 200,000 Tamil people are still trapped in the war zone. The Rajapakse government of Sri Lanka refuses to cooperate in a ceasefire to evacuate them. Protesters in New Delhi, Bangalore and Chennai joined hundreds of others around the world on 8 April demanding an immediate ceasefire and end to the slaughter of Tamil civilians in Sri Lanka. (In London, thousands of Tamils have been occupying Parliament Square for days.) by Jagadish Chandra, Delhi |
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cialist Party Scotland and the CWI
