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 * August 31, 2013 Farmers in Columbia protest cheap imports (The New York Times)
 * August 31, 2013 Millions of German workers trapped in low paying mini-jobs (The Guardian)
 * August 30, 2013 A "sons and daughters" program instituted by JPMorgan Chase to hire young princelings for positions in its Chinese operations came to light during a bribery investigation by the SEC. (The New York Times)
 * August 29, 2013 Fast food workers in the United States stage one day strike (The Guardian)
 * August 28, 2013 Elite Swedish boarding school closed after torture of students with hot irons (The Guardian)
 * August 26, 2013 Daughter of corrupt Filipina official turns 21 (mr. cheap justice's blog YouTube)
 * August 24, 2013 Mexico City occupied by the National Education Workers Co-ordinating Committee (The New York Times)
 * August 20, 2013 Hard drives destroyed under the supervision of British intelligence technicians in the basement of The Guardian (The Guardian)
 * August 19, 2013 Factory farming in China (Vimeo)
 * August 19, 2013 Environmental coalition protests fracking in the England (The Guardian Balcombe drilling protest)
 * August 16, 2013 Security state nominally directed at Muslim Brotherhood imposed in Egypt (The New York Times)
 * “Egypt is fighting terrorism”
 * August 12, 2013 Migrant workers, many Vietnamese, rounded up in Moscow (The New York Times)
 * August 11, 2013 Workers Defense Project, a worker center, represents immigrant construction workers in Texas (Workers Defense Project The New York Times)
 * August 10, 2013 Farmers in the Philippines destroy genetically modified "Golden Rice" (Bulatlat.com YouTube)
 * August 8, 2013 Sports Direct sued over zero-hour contracts (The Guardian)
 * July 29, 2013 Charlatan flees to Hong Kong (The New York Times People's Daily)
 * July 27, 2013 Chinese sweatshops relocating to Cambodia (South China Morning News)
 * July 23, 2013 Woman Has Baby (Front page of Private Eye on The Guardian)
 * July 22, 2013 Research shows that taxing the poor heavily keeps them poor (equality-of-opportunity.org Summary)
 * July 21, 2013 "Communism Out Loud" in Confederation Park in Ottawa at 1 PM (Facebook)
 * July 17, 2013 IMF analysis shows that much of China's trade surplus is being poorly invested (The New York Times Bloomberg)
 * July 13, 2013 Plans for a uranium processing plant in Jiangmen withdrawn after public protest out of "respect for public opinion" (New York Times New York Times)
 * July 10, 2013 Patriotic Union restored to legal status in Columbia (BBC)
 * July 8, 2013 Average life span north of the Huai River was reduced by 5 years due to air pollution due to burning of coal (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Scientific American)
 * July 3, 2013 Mail Isolation Control and Tracking program of the US Postal Service photographs the exterior of all mail processed in the United States (The New York Times)
 * "It’s a treasure trove of information"
 * July 2, 2013 U.S. Central Command blocks access to The Guardian by US military personnel (The Guardian)
 * June 2013 Cuba opened 118 internet cafes, fee $4.50 per hour (Samachar.com, Cuba Si The New York Times)
 * June 27 to 30, 2013 Socialist conference in Chicago (Socialism2013)
 * June 28, 2013 El Chueco sentenced to 11 years in prison in US; after that 22 years of prison in Mexico (The New York Times)
 * June 28, 2013 Balkan "prince" appointed by the Bulgarian Socialist Party led coalition to head the State Agency for National Security in Bulgaria forced to resign after public protests (The New York Times)
 * June 26, 2013 Rebellions popping up all over... (Waging NonViolence)
 * June 26, 2013 9,000 Britons monitored by the National Domestic Extremism Unit in the UK as "domestic extremists." (The Guardian Transmogrification from police cadet to undercover operative)
 * Undercover: The True Story of Britain's Secret Police (The Guardian)
 * "Lambert advised him to wear a condom when sleeping with activists"
 * June 19, 2013 Standing still, a form of passive resistance (The Guardian)
 * June 18, 2013 Mass protests continue in Brazil (The Guardian Twitter YouTube)
 * Video of transit police whipping train passengers
 * June 15, 2013 People's Republic of China adopts aggressive air pollution regulations (People's Daily)
 * June 14, 2013 Many members of the United States Congress were unaware of the full extent of NSA espionage (The Guardian)
 * June 14, 2013 The Death and Rebirth Symphony, in honor of Commander Ernesto Che Guevara, will be presented this week in the Cuban city of Santa Clara (Prensa Latina)
 * June 12, 2013 One.org launches agit8 protest song website (agit8)
 * June 10, 2013 La Via Campesina's Sixth Conference, named 'Egidio Brunetto' opens in Jakarta (La Via Campesina TV)
 * June 7 to 9, 2013 Left Forum 2013 conference at Pace University in New York City (Left Forum)
 * May 31 to June 4 Xi Jinping visits Trinidad and Tobago, Costa Rica, and Mexico (Bloomberg)
 * May 31, 2013 Turtle activist killed by poachers in Costa Rica (BBC WIDECAST)
 * May 31, 2013 Marxist-Leninist opinion divided on Communist Party of India (Maoist) killing of Congress Party official (Anti-Imperialism.Com Economic & Political Weekly)
 * May 28, 2013 Strikes at Walmart in Massachusetts and California (The Nation)
 * May 27, 2013 New People's Army (NPA) conducts successful ambush of special forces in the Philippines (ABS-CBNnews.com)
 * May 26, 2013 Agreement on rural development announced by FARC and Columbian government in Havana peace talks (The Guardian)
 * May 23, 2013 Google removes FARC's peace talk blog (Prensa Latina)
 * May 21, 2013 Use of MOOCs by Universities pose issues for students and teachers (Chronicle of Higher Education Harvard Crimson)
 * May 20, 2013 Global warming conflict heats up as cold front clashes with warm humid air mass in Oklahoma City (Grist)
 * May 15, 2013 Arctic Council meets to carve up Arctic resources (Bloomberg)
 * May 13, 2013 Lure of export profits drives a frenzy of fracking in the United States (The Anchorage Daily News)
 * May 13, 2013 Crowd-sourced global inventory of power plants (The Ventus Project)
 * May 13, 2013 Rumors of economic reform in the People's Republic of China (The Age)
 * May 13, 2013 Morale falls in Bulgaria as corruption reigns (The New York Times The New York Times)
 * May 12, 2013 Keystone XL bulling ahead (Globe and Mail)
 * May 10, 2013 Little Red Ants reviewed (Hindustan Times)
 * May 10, 2013 Broad-based movement focused on worker safety arises after building collapse in Bangladesh (The New York Times Green America)
 * May 8, 2013 Great Plains Tar Sands Resistance Action Camp, near Ponca City, Oklahoma (Waging Nonviolence)
 * May 5, 2013 Communist Party of Bangladesh (CPB) headquarters burned by Islamic fundamentalists. (BDNews24.Com)
 * May 4, 2013 Living large with Chinese characteristics poses public health risk (The National Interest)
 * May 3, 2013 Populist nationalist United Kingdom Independence Party gains in the UK (The Guardian)
 * May 1, 2013 May Day celebrations in Venezuela (Venezuela Analysis)
 * May 1, 2013 Fist fight breaks out after protest against gag order in Venezuelan Parliament (The Guardian)
 * April 26, 2013 #LadyProfeco rejects seating at Maximo Bistrot and shuts restaurant down (#LadyProfeco BBC)
 * April 26, 2013 Presentation by Chinese economist disrupted by Maoists (China Media Project)
 * April 26, 2013 TV news crew warned by police to suppress story of unsafe garment factory in Bangladesh (The New York Times)
 * April 20, 2013 Capitalist leaders endow scholarship fund for study by westerners at Tsinghua University in Beijing (The New York Times schwarzmanscholars YouTube)
 * April 19, 2013 Politburo in China holds seminar on corruption (Caixin)
 * April 19, 2013 Political rights of the Left Front suspended in Russia (Reuters UK)
 * April 18, 2013 Land concentration and land grabbing are occurring and reaching blatant levels in Europe (European Coordination Via Campesina)
 * April 17, 2013 What Next for the Eurozone? Macroeconomic Policy and the Recession (Center for Economic and Policy Research)
 * April 17, 2013 Comment on BBC program "Undercover in North Korea" (NK News)
 * April 17, 2013 Coffee shop opens in Pyongyang (Chosen Exchange)
 * April 17, 2013 International Day of Peasants’ Struggles (La Via Campensina Actions around the World The New York Times)
 * April 16, 2013 Spectre of a carbon bubble haunts financial markets (Carbon Tracker)
 * April 16, 2013 Musallam el-Barrak sentenced to 5 years in prison for insulting the Emir of Kuwait (The New York Times')
 * April 16, 2013 Release of the report of the blue ribbon Task Force on Detainee Treatment (U.S. torture of detainees) (The Constitution Project)
 * April 16, 2013 Iceland and China sign free trade pact (News of Iceland)
 * April 15, 2013 Review of The Cherokee Word for Water a biographical film of Wilma Mankiller, Cherokee chief (Indian Country Today The Cherokee Word for Water)
 * April 15, 2013 InsideClimate News awarded Pulitzer Prize (InsideClimate News)
 * April 15, 2013 North Korean ambassador to the UK addresses the Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist–Leninist) (YouTube/stimmekoreas The Guardian)
 * April 15, 2013 Efraín Ríos Montt on trial for genocide in Guatemala (The New York Times)
 * April 15, 2013 Nicolás Maduro wins in Venezuela by a narrow margin.
 * April 14, 2013 The Cambodians try to adapt to car culture (Sky Bridge Project Khemarak Sereymon Phnom Penh Post The New York Times)
 * April 14, 2013 Presidential election scheduled in Venezuela (UpSideDownWorld Venezuela Analysis)
 * Red Tide Sweeps Caracas
 * April 13, 2013 Dead Dog
 * April 13, 2013 British celebrate the death of Margaret Thatcher (Facebook)
 * April 9, 2013 Peace marches in Bogotá support resumption of Columbian peace talks in Havana April 18 (The Guardian Revolución Colombia)
 * April 9, 2013 Trip to Cuba by Beyoncé and Jay-Z was authorized the US Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control as an educational exchange. (The New York Times Academic Arrangements Abroad)
 * April 9, 2013 GOLOS charged with failure to register as a "foreign agent" in Russia (The New York Times GOLOS)
 * April 8, 2013 WikiLeaks launches the WIKILEAKS Public Library of US Diplomacy (PlusD) (Knight Center Public Library of US Diplomacy (PlusD))
 * April 8, 2013 (Actually Jan 28th, 2013) New Jersey anti-foreclosure activists march on the Bank of America (YouTube NJ Communities United The Jersey City Independent)
 * April 5, 2013 March economic statistics released showing a fall of 500,000 in the work force in the United States (Bureau of Labor Statistics)
 * April 5, 2013 Roberto Zurbano dismissed as director of the Cuban publisher Casa de las Americas following op-ed in The New York Times about racism in Cuba (Havana Times Statement by Regional African Descent in Latin America and the Caribbean, Cubano Chapter (ARAC))
 * April 5, 2013 Vietnamese fish farmers receive reduced sentences after resisting mistaken taking of land. (Vietnam.net)
 * April 5, 2013 Video of debate between reality show survivor and Holocaust survivor displayed by Jewish Museum Berlin. (YouTube The Whole Truth)
 * April 4, 2013 BANANA debate over economic development in South Bronx (The New York Times)
 * April 4, 2013 Strike by fast food workers in New York City (Fast Food Forward)
 * April 4, 2013 Air pollution in Beijing reached record levels in early 2013. (The Economic Observer)
 * April 3, 2013 Analysis of social class survey of Britain published (BBC Sociology)
 * Comment by Eddie Ford
 * March 31, 2013 Anti-corruption protest in Beijing broken up by police and protestors detained (NewChinaChannel YouTube)
 * March 15, 2013 Dmitry Gudkov, member of the Russian Duma, accused of treason. (The New York Times)
 * March 15 Anniversary of the assassination of Julius Cesaer
 * March 13, 2013 Prominent Latin American opponent of liberation theology named Pope. (Democracy Now! The New Yorker)
 * March 10, 2013 March of tens of thousands protesting nears Delhi. ("India Ink" The New York Times)
 * March 10, 2013 Demonstrators in Baku, Azerbaijan demand end to abuse of draftees. ("The New York Times")
 * March 8 International Women's Day
 * March 7, 2013 Operation Condor trial begins in Argentina ("World Socialist Web Site")
 * March 6, 2013 Grief in Venezuela after Hugo Chávez dies after long struggle with cancer. (El Universal Slideshow Reuters)
 * March 5, 2013 3,000 farmers ordered to vacate their land to make way for Japanese financed project in Myanmar. (The New York Times)
 * March 5, 2012 Hugo Chávez, the revolutionary socialist President of Venezuela, dies at the age of 58. (Huffington Post)
 * March 1, 2013 China attempts to control speculation in the housing market. (English.news.cn 60 Minutes China 中国 Insider)
 * March 1, 2013 50,000 sign an online petition protesting legal action against No Dash For Gas protesters (Change.Org)
 * March 1st and 2nd, 2013 OccupyData Hackathon James Gallery @ CUNY Graduate Center (Occupy Data NYC)
 * March 1, 2013 Across the board budget cuts scheduled in the United States (Politico)
 * February 28, 2013 Dennis Rodman and the Harlem Globetrotters visit North Korea. (Vice.Com)
 * February 26, 2013 Two Unified Farmworkers Movement of the Aguan activists tortured and killed in Honduras. (Global Post St. Louis Interfaith Committee on Latin America (IFCLA))
 * February 20, 2013 Democracy on the rise in Latin America. (Truth-Out)
 * February 20, 2013 Report on 250 recent disappearances in Mexico. (Human Rights Watch)
 * February 20, 2013 Belly dancing channel that "arouses viewers" closed down in Egypt. (Morocco World News)
 * February 20, 2013 Bulgarian government falls after violent protests against austerity. (The Christian Science Monitor)
 * "I will not participate in a government under which police are beating people," Boiko Borisov
 * February 19, 2013 Deadlock over amnesty for Maoist soldiers charged with war crimes continues in Nepal. ("The New York Times")
 * February 19, 2013 Incumbent re-elected in Armenia. (aysor.am)
 * February 18, 2013 Bolivian Airport Services SA, a subsidiary of the Spanish firm, nationalized in Bolivia. (Reuters)
 * February 18, 2013 Hugo Chávez returns to Venezuela. (Hugo Chávez Frías)
 * February 17, 2013 Climate change protest in Washington, D.C. (Forward on Climate, ''Indian Country Today)
 * February 15, 2013 Secretive network of conservative organizations funding anti-climate change propaganda. (The Guardian)
 * February 15, 2013 Renewed activity by the Zapatista Army of National Liberation reported. (Al Jazeera'')
 * February 14, 2013 Robin Hood tax proposed by European tax commission. (TheParliament.Com)
 * February 14, 2013 A fall in economic output during the 4th quarter of 2012 was reported for most countries in the Eurozone. (Eurostat)
 * February 14, 2013 Agribusiness protestors in Paraguay to be charged with attempted murder. (The Miami Herald)
 * February 14 V-Day (One Billion Rising)
 * February 11, ¿México ha perdido Acapulco? ¿Es Guerrero un Estado fallido? (Has Mexico lost ? Is a ?) (Animal Politico)
 * February 9, 2013 Sergei Udaltsov placed under house arrest. (The New York Times)
 * February 7, 2013 In his Lunar New Year's greeting to non communist parties and citizens Xi Jinping welcomes sharp criticism.(Xinhua)
 * "The CPC should be able to put up with sharp criticism, correct mistakes if it has committed them and avoid them if it has not," he said. "Non-CPC personages should meanwhile have the courage to tell the truth, speak words jarring on the ear, and truthfully reflect public aspirations,"
 * February 5, 2013 The State Council, China's cabinet, issued guidelines addressing income disparity. (China.org.cn)
 * January 14, 2013 Cuba ends requirement of an exit visa for most citizens. (Digital Granma International)
 * January 7, 2013 Unspecified reforms to China's Re-education Through Labor system announced. (China.org.cn)
 * Yanhuang Chunqiu, No. 1, 2013 New Year Greetings “The Constitution is a Consensus for Political Reform” (宪法是政治体制改革的共识) (China Media Project)
 * "A New Year’s greeting gets the axe in China"
 * Further coverage in The New York Times
 * December, 2012 Wang Qishan recommends The Old Regime and the Revolution (Google eBook) (The New York Times)
 * December 12, 2012 North Korea succesfully launches satellite. (Yahoo! News)
 * December 11, 2012 Cuba authorizes worker cooperatives on an experimental basis. (Reuters)
 * December, 2012 Massive youth unemployment continues in Europe. (Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung)
 * November 28, 2012 Fast food workers strike for a living wage in New York City (Sum of Us, Fast Food Forward)
 * November 25, 2012 price taggers vandalize Palestinian cars in East Jerusalem. (The Jewish Daily Forward)
 * November 24, 2012 Another fatal garment factory fire in Bangladesh. (Clean Clothes Campaign)
 * November 23, 2012 Black Friday protests demand better pay for Walmart workers (Komo News)
 * November 22, 2012 Mohamed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood appoints himself "guardian" of the Egyptian revolution. (The Guardian)
 * November, 2012 Adela Hernandez, a transgendered person elected municipal delegate in Cuba. (The Guardian)
 * November 14, 2012 General strikes in Spain and Portugal supported by strikes in Greece, Italy, France and Belgium. (Democracy Now!, The Progressive, The New York Times)
 * October 26, 2012 People's Republic of China blocks access to The New York Times after publication of a report on the wealth of the family of Prime Minster Wen Jiabao. (The Guardian)
 * October 25, 2012 No. 22 Hoiryeong Political Prison Camp in North Korea reported closed. (Daily NK)
 * October 23, 2012 Online election of the Opposition Coordination Council in Russia (RT)
 * October 18, 2012 24 hour general strike in Greece protesting austerity. (The Guardian)
 * October 10, 2012 The 2012 Food Sovereignty Prize awarded to Korean Women’s Peasant Association (KWPA), Unified Peasant Movement of Aguan Region (MUCA), National Fisheries Solidarity Movement (NAFSO), and Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) (foodsovereigntyprize.org/)
 * October 9, 2012 Teen-aged girl educational activist shot by Taliban in Pakistan. (The New York Times)"A Taliban spokesman, Ehsanullah Ehsan, confirmed by phone that Ms. Yousafzai had been the target, calling her crusade for education rights an “obscenity.”"
 * "“She has become a symbol of Western culture in the area; she was openly propagating it,” Mr. Ehsan said, adding that if she survived, the militants would certainly try to kill her again. “Let this be a lesson.”"
 * October 7, 2012 Hugo Chávez wins 4th term as President of Venezuela after free and fair election. (Al Jazeera)
 * September 25, 2012 Hungry Spanish workers dumpster dive. (The New York Times)
 * September 19, 2012 Opposition parties call one day general strike in India protesting economic reforms. (Reuters)
 * September 19, 2012 Federal government moves to take control over child welfare services on The Spirit Lake Indian Reservation in North Dakota. (The New York Times)
 * September 18, 2012 Platinum strike at one mine in South Africa ends with 22% wage increase for hard rock drillers. (Mail & Guardian)
 * Workers at neighboring mines demand similar raises. (Reuters'')
 * September 18, 2012 Chicago teachers strike ends; merit pay defeated. (Democracy Now!)
 * September 18, 2012 Death and the Civil War aired on PBS 8/7c (Public Broadcasting Service)
 * September, 2012 Coalgate exposes corruption by politicians in India. (Comptroller and Auditor General of India)
 * September 12, 2012 289 workers die in fire in garment factory with one exit in Karachi, Pakistan. (The New York Times'')
 * September 11, 2012 The U.S. embassy in Egypt was attacked by a mob after the trailer of a film mocking the prophet Mohammad produced in the United States was shown on YouTube. (The New York Times)
 * September 10, 2012 Strike by Chicago teachers. (Home page Chicago Teachers Union)
 * September 6, 2012 The Young Doctors Association block road during a strike in Pakistan. (The Express Tribune)
 * September 5, 2012 Pyongyang Restaurant in Netherlands closes after 6 months. (AT5 Nieuws)
 * August 30, 2012 Exploratory negotiations have begun between Colombia and FARC. (Latin American Herald Tribune)
 * August 30, 2012 Striking "Afro-Colombian Port Workers Attacked by Anti-Riot Police" (Washington Office on Latin America)
 * August 26, 2012 A series of blog posts appeared at http://savethecpusa.blogspot.com/ criticizing Sam Webb, Chairman of the Communist Party USA, and certain actions and positions taken recently by the Communist Party USA, particularly the political line of “Unity Against the Ultra-Right.”
 * August 24, 2012 Greenpeace environmental activists occupy a Gazprom drilling platform in the arctic ocean. (The Moscow Times "Arctic Action LIVE!")
 * August 24, 2012 Inventories of unsold consumer goods, automobiles, and other products were reported to be rapidly rising in the People's Republic of China. (The New York Times)
 * August 22, 2012 Pedro Garcia, former police chief, was sentenced to 70 years in prison for kidnapping of a student during the Guatemalan Civil War. (The Guardian)
 * August 20, 2012 The position of Red de Apoyo por la Justicia y la Paz on Venezuela’s exit from the I/A Court H.R. (Venezuelan Politics and Human Rights)
 * August 20, 2012 The 2nd International Trade Fair opened in Rasŏn. (Washington Post, Video NK News, New York Daily News, Images, Chosen Exchange)
 * August 18, 2012 Carlos D’Oliveira of the Revolutionary Steel Worker's Front was dismissed as president of Sidor, the Venezuelan steel company. (Venezuela Analysis)
 * August 17, 2012 Jang Sung-taek of the Workers' Party of Korea met with President Hu Jintao and Prime Minister Wen Jiabao of the People's Republic of China following 6 days of economic negotiations.(People's Daily) (The New York Times)
 * August 16, 2012 34 workers die during a wildcat strike at a platinum mine in South Africa. (Financial Times) (The New York Times)


 * April 30, 2012 general strike in Bangladesh enters 2nd day after disappearance two weeks ago of Elias Ali, an opposition leader. "Bangladesh: Opposition Activists Charged as Strike Turns Violent"
 * May 1, 2012 International Worker's Day "No Work, No Shopping, Occupy Everywhere": May Day Special on OWS, Immigration, Labor Protests Coverage by Democracy Now!; by Laura Flanders, columnist for The Nation
 * "Venezuela Secures $1B In Loans From Japan To Expand Refinery -PdVSA"
 * Plans by South Korea to finance $11.14 Billion in energy related projects in Venezuela were announced on April 25, 2012. Projects include and oil pipeline, a harbor, a refinery, and a power plant.South Korea Says It Plans $11.14 Billion Projects in Venezuela
 * A plea from the peasants of the and  of Mali was broadcast on the internet April 25, 2012. It was alleged the peasants had been displaced from their land for the last 3 years and been beaten.Land Grabbing in Mali: Farmers arrested
 * List of Activities for 17th April, 2012 around the world International Day of Peasant Struggle
 * On the International Day of Peasant Struggle, April 17th, in Honduras massive land occupations have started by peasants
 * Fox News Latino coverage


 * Dissatisfaction with the 2011 legislative elections in Russia has resulted in popular mass protests against corruption. Суббота на Болотной площади (Saturday at Bolotnaya Square}


 * Today, the world is ready to listen to Occupy Wall Street and its claim to speak for the 99% against the profiteering 1%. October 18, 2011


 * Barack Obama speaks about the debt ceiling stand-off saying compromise has become a "dirty word". July 25, 2011


 * Right-wing, Anti-Muslim, Christian terrorist kills over 90 in Norway terrorist attacks July 22, 2011


 * Philippines: Communist rebels and government meet and agree to continue talks February 22, 2011


 * A socialist-backed revolution in Egypt has overthrown American puppet Hosni Mubarak's regime. See Revolutionary Socialists (Egypt) and Egyptian Communist Party February 11, 2011