South Asia
US steps up drone war on Pakistan
By Bill Van Auken, May 25, 2012
US drone attacks in northwest Pakistan killed at least 14 people in little more than 24 hours, including 10 dying in a Thursday morning missile strike on a mosque.
Sri Lanka: SEP holds plantation workers’ congress
By W.A.Sunil, May 25, 2012
The SEP plantation workers congress in Hatton last Saturday reflected important political shifts in the Sri Lankan working class
Australian government confirms commitment to ongoing Afghanistan occupation
By Patrick O’Connor, May 24, 2012
Prime Minister Julia Gillard functioned as little more than a mouthpiece for Washington during the discussions at the NATO summit in Chicago.
After the NATO summit: Afghanistan slaughter to continue
By Bill Van Auken, May 23, 2012
For all the rhetoric about “transition” and “transformation,” the proposals laid out at the NATO summit in Chicago mean a continuation of a dirty colonial war and the slaughter of Afghan civilians.
Pakistan’s Hazaras targeted by campaign of ethnic-communal killings
By a Pakistani correspondent, May 22, 2012
More than twenty Hazaras were killed and some thirty others wounded in a series of ambushes last month in Quetta, the capital of Pakistan’s Balochistan province.
India: WSWS team attacked as NLC strike enters second month
By Arun Kumar, May 22, 2012
The assault on WSWS supporters, who were distributing a leaflet exposing the role of the government and the unions, is a clear sign that a betrayal is being prepared.
Sri Lankan SEP condemns attack on WSWS supporters in India
By Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka), May 21, 2012
The assault by AIADMK thugs is a warning to workers of the methods that governments and employers will use to suppress opposition to the deepening assault on jobs and living standards.
Sri Lankan government imposes new price rises
By Saman Gunadasa, May 18, 2012
As escalating price increases impact on Sri Lanka workers, the banks and other major corporations are amassing huge profits.
“Green-on-Blue” attacks on foreign troops increase in Afghanistan
By Harvey Thompson, May 18, 2012
Two British soldiers were shot dead last week by Afghan policemen, the latest in a rising tide of “green-on-blue” attacks on foreign forces in Afghanistan by supposed allies in the more than decade-long occupation and counterinsurgency.
Sri Lanka: Fire destroys plantation workers’ homes
By M. Vasanthan, May 16, 2012
A recent fire that destroyed over 20 line-rooms highlights the poverty-stricken conditions facing Sri Lankan plantation workers.
India: Striking NLC contract workers must expand struggle—industrially and politically
By Arun Kumar, Moses Rajkumar, May 15, 2012
On strike since April 21, the 14,000 contract workers at the Indian government-owned Neyveli Lignite Corporation are challenging a cheap-labour and repressive work-regime that has become the norm in both India’s public and private sectors.
Clinton pressures India to support sanctions on Iran
By Sarath Kumara, May 15, 2012
Indian corporations and banks are facing the prospect of tough US penalties from the end of June for doing business with Iranian banks.
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