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How do we make democracy work for the poor?
May Day is celebrated in over 80 countries around the world, including South Africa, on May 1st. To mark the occasion workers took to the streets in Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Europe yesterday.
The Real News filed this report of rallies from around the world, including South East Asia (where turnouts were massive), Japan, Spain, Greece, Germany, Russia, Turkey, Bahrain, Egypt and more.
Low wages in a time of high food and oil prices, job security and harsh working conditions were...
Glenn Ashton -
The last few years has seen a steady procession of various shady characters from around the world paraded across our headlines and through our legal systems. So is South Africa becoming a sunny place for shady people? To be more precise, are our democratic institutions at risk from infiltration by international criminals and crime networks? Crime and corruption are ancient confederates.
Apartheid South Africa was not only morally corrupt, it was corrupt to its core. Despite denials by...
Embattled WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange's much touted talk show, "The World Tomorrow", aired its second episode this week on RT.
Assange interviews Slovenian philosopher, Slavoj Zizek, a former anti-communist dissident who’s now turned communist and David Horowitz, a former radical activist and Black Panther ally, who has now become a fiery right-wing Zionist.
In a heated debate, they talk about the future of Europe and the US, as well as touch on the issue of...
Paul Jay of The Real News talks to Gerard Duminil, economist and former research director at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, about the political players in the first round of the French elections that has grabbed headlines this week and sent jitters through the markets, as incumbent president, Nicolas Sarkozy was narrowly beaten by socialist candidate Francois Holland. The two candidates will now face each other in a run off in May 2012.
Although this interview with...
Richard Pithouse -
The allegations that have been levelled against Richard Mdluli are very serious. If they are true he is a dangerous man, a very dangerous man.
We do need to be mindful that some of the allegations against Mdluli have entered the public domain as different factions of the police leak information and allegations against each other. But Jacob Zuma's decision to make him the head of the Crime Intelligence unit in the police is still chilling. The man is accused of kidnapping, murder, fraud,...
Sadie Robinson -
As the row over nuclear power grows, Sadie Robinson spoke to scientist and activist Dr Helen Caldicott about the dangers of nuclear power, the powerful interests that back it and how we can win a better world.
The environmentalist George Monbiot has recently spent his time attacking anti-nuclear campaigners. He claims they misrepresent scientific research and lie about the health risks of radiation.
In his Guardian articles, Monbiot has accused scientist Dr Helen...
