Venezuela: Revolution brings substantial improvements to working-class neighbourhoods

Hillside barrios in Caracas. Photo by Ryan Mallett-Outtrim/Venezuelanalysis.
Bolivia: Workers to take over closed or abandoned firms; The working class and the political process

By Richard Fidler, La Paz, Bolivia
France: Jean-Luc Mélenchon's speech at the 2013 Fete L´Humanité
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Malaysia: PSM members win RM200,000 settlement in false imprisonment case

Celebrations following the release of the EO6. Ex-detainee Choo Chon Kai in centre.
Five years after the economic meltdown: Riches for some, poverty for the rest

Last man standing.
By Rupen Savoulian

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Right gains in Austria's paradoxical election result

By Walter Baier
Malaysia: Kampong Hakka -– when 100 years of community residence does not matter
By S. Arutcheclvan, general-secretary, Socialist Party of Malaysia
Egypt’s military rulers help imprison Palestinians of Gaza

A Palestinian (right) in Rafah on the Gaza-Egypt border talks to an Egyptian soldier.