Even though we knew that it was something more devastating than a mere soap bubble, when the subprime crisis first broke out we could not have envisaged how much worse it would get in such a short

(Image - Malnutrition is already endemic across the world, without further food price increases)

(Image - South African Daily Sun urges its readers to consider themselves lucky, as the local “rats of higher prices” don’t have the same appetite as the Zimbabwean ones)

_Persepolis_ is the film version of Marjane Satrapi's graphic autobiographical novel (i.e. comic book) of the same name.

(Image - Given the determination of the Egyptian working class to fight their own cause this is not going to be the last of the present wave of class struggle)

(We are publishing here, as received, a communiqué from our Italian comrades calling for support for workers at the FIAT factory of Pomigliano (NA).

(We start here with our collective yearly May Day statement, published belatedly here.

In the US left capitalism is using the rabidly militaristic Bush regime as a rallying cry to mobilize massive layers of the population behind a more articulate voice for American imperialism.