Displaced people in the strife-torn western region of Darfur continue to be threatened and harassed even after their arrival in camps, aid workers say... Last month, 13 militiamen entered a camp in North Darfur and fired on civilians, killing two children, aged six and nine, and injuring a teenager and an adult male.

Democrats on the House Committee on Education and the Workforce [held] an E-Hearing Dec. 6 - 15, 2005, on the situation at Delphi, General Motors and the American auto industry. Below is testimony submitted by UAW President Ron Gettelfinger and UAW Vice President Richard Shoemaker.

It is obvious that Wal-Mart continues to be something of an Emperor Without Clothes, such as the real emperor who rode naked through his town in the old children's storybook. The massive investments in public relations do not really work, and why should they work if the story itself is not right.

According to the latest UN situation report on shelter, aid agencies, local authorities and the Pakistan military - who say they are constructing 6,000 temporary shelters a day - will have provided non-tent shelter for at least 595,000 people by 10 December.

Speaking to IRIN from Harare, Ncube said he had been told that his name was on a government list of 17 prominent Zimbabweans whose passports would be confiscated if they travelled back to their homeland. The list apparently includes the name of a well-known activist.

Unions from key countries in which the Associated Press is represented sent appeals to Mr. Curley expressing their dismay over actions of the company in Mexico where five editorial workers were dismissed in a row over the future of union representation.

A spate of recent polls confirms what has been publicly acknowledged for a long time - that a clear majority of Canadians oppose a snap federal election this winter. And yet that is what all of the sitting parties in Parliament - including the Martin Liberals - seem intent on provoking.

From its very beginning, USLAW has publicly opposed the war in Iraq. We stated that Bush was lying, that we had no right to invade Iraq, that oil was more the issue than weapons of mass destruction. We predicted that war with Iraq would lead to a prolonged and bloody guerrilla war, while encouraging terrorism in the Middle East and elsewhere in the world.

The topic of this discussion opens up the possibility of a creative and illuminating exchange of views about the consequences of the onslaught by forces of capitalism for working people across the world and independent countries.

oday, Cindy Sheehan and Scottish mothers who have lost their sons in Iraq held a rally outside the Scottish parliament, spoke at a cross-party meeting of Members of the Scottish Parliament, were welcomed to the City of Glasgow by the Lord Provost, and addressed an anti-war rally in Glasgow.

Clearly Stanley Williams is not an appropriate candidate for the death penalty.  His trial was riddled with extraordinary constitutional violations.  Additionally Williams has reformed in prison and can serve as an asset to society while serving a term of life in prison without possibility of parole.

Workers and union leaders testified at a Workers Rights Hearing about the failure of US labor law to protect workers who try to join unions.

In Venezuela things are moving at an incredible speed. The above quoted lines are very apt to describe the mood that exists here. When you arrive at the airport in Caracas, you are informed that, “you are now in Bolivarian territory”. This sets the tone for what is to come.

How much damage will men like George Bush, James Dobson, Pat Robertson, Sam Brownback, Ralph Reed, and Rick Santorum inflict before reason prevails and they are unmasked as the twisted, malevolent charlatans that they are?

In fiscal 2004, total compensation for the CEO of a median U.S. company rose across the board, with corporate officials in the energy industry getting the biggest pay hikes: 46.1 percent, according to a new report by the Conference Board, a business research group.

Ali Ismaeel Abbas, aged 12, was sleeping when a missile completely destroyed his house and killed most of his family, leaving him orphan, with terrible burns and without arms.

In a startling new development, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia has agreed to hear arguments on three claims by Pennsylvania death-row prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal that his 1982 trial and state appeal were tainted by constitutional violations.

Following the appointment of 34 presidential appointees to the 102-seat Meshrano Jirga (the upper house of parliament), Afghanistan's new national assembly is scheduled to convene on 19 December for the first time in more than three decades

Ken Livingstone, the Mayor of London, England, threw a bash for anti-war activists this evening and denounced the Bush Administration as "a gang of thugs."  He praised the work of those present from the US and the UK who have worked to end the war, including offering high praise for Cindy Sheehan, who also spoke.

In addition to the vice presidency, the rebels want Darfur’s borders returned to what they were at independence in 1956 to encompass Karal al-Thoum, Al-A’Troon and Wa’hat al-Sharafi, areas were incorporated into northern Sudan by Khartoum in the 1990s.