Like the rest of the world, there is boiling anger in Lebanon among the masses at the Israeli state’s brutal attack on Gaza.

Israel’s government’s rule has been a chain of scandals and failures, most recently the impact of the world capitalist crisis. Now they are trying to save themselves from defeat in February’s elections by means of a wholesale slaughter of Palestinians in this long planned attack.

We publish this interview with Mexican workers in struggle which was conducted by members of the CWI in Latin America for our Spanish web page mundosocialista.net. We are sure that this interview will be of interest to our readers, but it does not necessarily fully reflect the ideas and programme of the CWI.

After the general strike on Wednesday, December 10, Greece finds itself, for the 7th day, gripped by youth and social revolt. The main thing now is to see how the mass movement can move forward.

Last Saturday evening, a group of young school students shouted at a police car that was passing by a cafe in which they were sitting, in the center of Athens, and threw two plastic 0,5 litre water bottles at the police car. The two policemen (special guards) stopped the car some distance away, came out of the car and approached the school students. One of the officers pulled out a gun and fired at the youths, killing one of them. The two policemen then simply turned their backs and walked away!

A massive demonstration against education cuts organised by the teachers’ unions saw over 60,000 teachers, parents and students take to the streets of Dublin today.

The U.S. presidential election campaign has opened a new chapter for U.S. imperialism. With the Democratic candidate, Barack Obama, the clear favorite to win the race to the White House, what will this new situation mean for U.S. foreign policy?

Evo Morales’ MAS (Movement towards Socialism) government won a crushing victory in the re-call referendum, which took place on 10 August 2008. Following this victory, the right-wing reactionary forces in the eastern provinces of the “media luna,” went on the offensive.

Rather than the Olympic movement’s self-professed ideals of "internationalism" and "fair play", the Games are about two at first sight contradictory forces: nationalistic flag-waving and capitalist globalization.

China faces the most terrifying ecological crisis in the world. There are no parallels in peacetime for such monumental degradation of a country’s natural resources, water and land.

World stock markets are again reeling, this time on rumors that the two largest financial institutions in the world are technically insolvent. Their collapse would represent a financial earthquake, dwarfing previous financial shocks such as the March collapse of Bear Stearns.

The G8 (Group of Eight) kicked off its three-day meeting in Toyako on the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido on July 7, with world leaders bunkered in what the Independent (UK) described as a “fortress”. This G8 summit takes place as the capitalist system is sliding into its most serious global crisis for six decades.

Bolivia is awash with rumors about an impending right-wing coup against the elected government of president Evo Morales. These rumors took on more importance as the Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez invited Evo Morales, Daniel Ortega, president of Nicaragua, and Carlos Lage, vice-president of Cuba, to Caracas for a summit to discuss how to defend the Bolivian government in the event of a coup.

World rice prices rose 141% since January. Wheat rose 77% last year, one variety rising 25% in a single day. The effects of these dramatic increases are being felt world-wide with violent protests breaking out in Haiti, Egypt, Cameroon and Indonesia. It is the first time a wave of food riots has swept across the globe in 30 years. World Food Program’s Josette Sheeran says, “This is a silent tsunami.”

The rejection of the Lisbon Treaty (the renamed EU Constitution) by voters in Ireland last Thursday was a major shock for the political and business establishment in Ireland. The Socialist Party (CWI in Ireland) played a major role in the campaign for a "No" vote.