By Michael A. Lebowitz

Fijian Trade Union Congress secretary Felix Anthony.

By Byron Clark

The following is an excerpt from Esteban Morales Domínguez's new book, Race in Cub

February 12, 2013 –

More than 1 million people mobilised to protest the assassination of Chokri Belaid.

By Suzanne Weiss

January 31, 2013 -- Green Left Weekly -- Fifty years ago, on February 13, 1963, the publication of US writer and activist Betty Friedan’s book The Feminine Mystique sparked a new awakening in the thinking of women across North America. Friedan denounced the repression women suffered in the aftermath of World War II, when they were forced out of wartime jobs and convinced to accept the role of keepers of the home.

Profiteers of the market launched an unrelenting but subtle propaganda campaign to venerate women as wife and mother. This role, Friedan said, was the “feminine mystique”.

This domestic existence became, Friedan wrote, “a religion, a pattern by which all women must now live or deny their femininity”. In submitting to this concept of womanhood, women gave up their self-respect, recognition of their talents and abilities, and — most importantly — their identities. Fundamentally, Friedan said, this was a scam to sell more consumer goods to women, who were to be the major purchasers for home and family.

For a moment he lost himself in the old, familiar dream.

The demand for shorter working hours with no loss in pay has been a key transitional demand.

By Doug Lorimer

France's Socialist Party President Francois Hollande with the Left Front's Jean-Luc Melenchon.

By Murray Smith

[For more coverage of Catalonia, click HERE, and Spain, HERE.]