Caribbean
Puerto Rico: General strike against mass layoffs
By Bill Van Auken, October 17, 2009
Hundreds of thousands of workers joined a day-long general strike Thursday in opposition to the layoffs of tens of thousands of public employees ordered by the island territory’s Governor Luis Fortu...
Puerto Rico: Mass layoffs provoke protests, strikes
By Bill Van Auken, October 5, 2009
The Puerto Rican government’s announced layoff of 17,000 public employees has provoked protests and strikes.
Dozens of Haitian immigrants drown off Turks and Caicos
By David Walsh, July 30, 2009
In the largest tragedy involving Haitian refugees at sea in several years, dozens of people remain missing after a boat on which they were traveling broke up on a reef near the Caribbean islands of Tu...
Australia: Global institutions tell Rudd government to cut spending
By Mike Head, July 2, 2009
Warning of continuing “weak” and “fragile” conditions in the Australian and world economy, global financial institutions have insisted that the Rudd government must make deep spending cuts in ...
At least nine Haitian immigrants drown off Florida coast
By Tom Eley, May 15, 2009
A boat carrying an unknown number of Haitian immigrants capsized and sunk off the Florida coast on Wednesday, killing at least nine. Sixteen survivors face detention and eventual deportation.
Americas Summit ends with no agreement on economic crisis
By Bill Van Auken, April 21, 2009
While the media has focused its attention on the handshakes between Obama and his Venezuelan counterpart Hugo Chavez, what dominated the Americas Summit was the absence of agreement on policies to con...
Castroite purge in Cuba as US slightly eases sanctions
By Bill Van Auken, March 13, 2009
The sweeping purge of top government officials announced last week in Cuba is symptomatic of a bourgeois nationalist regime in deep crisis, which is conspiring against the interests of the masses of C...
Guadeloupe: Striker killed in repression of general strike
Sarkozy government sends 300 police reinforcements
By Antoine Lerougetel, February 20, 2009
The government of President Nicolas Sarkozy has responded to the general strike in Guadeloupe by escalating the repression that resulted in the death of a striker, Jacques Bino.
Demands for state repression of “insurrectionary” Guadeloupe and Martinique general strikes
By Antoine Lerougetel, February 16, 2009
General strikes in Guadeloupe and Martinique have now lasted almost four weeks and two weeks, respectively. Demonstrations have mobilized as many as 100,000 of Guadeloupe’s 500,000 inhabitants and 2...
Guadeloupe general strike isolated by French trade unions
By Françoise Thull and Pierre Mabut, February 9, 2009
A general strike against rising living costs has been in progress on the French Caribbean island of Guadeloupe since January 20, bringing economic activity to a standstill.
Death toll, public outrage rise in aftermath of Haiti school collapse
By Naomi Spencer, November 11, 2008
At least 94 school children have been killed, and at least 150 more injured, as a result of last Friday’s collapse of a school in Petionville, Haiti. Rescue workers continued to search through the r...
Humanitarian crisis worsens in Haiti
By Naomi Spencer, September 12, 2008
The death toll in Haiti continues to rise following a series of devastating hurricanes in the Caribbean. Official government figures have placed the number dead between 600 and 1,000, with more than 8...
