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Brazil: Setback for Lula’s presidential candidacy

September 4, 2018 By Emile Schepers

The Supreme Electoral Tribunal voted six to one that former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is barred from running.

In Germany, Nazis march, anti-fascists ‘stand-up’ against them

August 31, 2018 By Victor Grossman

For the last ten days Nazis have been on the march in Germany. Anti-fascists have challenged them in the streets.

‘Equal pay for equal work’: Temp workers struggle in China’s auto sector

August 31, 2018 By Zhang Lu

In China, temporary agency workers receive as little as half the pay and none of the benefits enjoyed by their ‘regular’ counterparts, but they are fighting back.

Shifting alliances: Asia and Middle East chart courses independent of U.S.

August 30, 2018 By Conn Hallinan

With the erratic winds blowing out of Washington these days, countries all over Asia and the Middle East are re-evaluating traditional foes and old alliances.

Indian Communists attacked while collecting funds for flood victims

August 29, 2018 By Steve Sweeney

The Communist Party of India (Marxist) praised the public response to its fundraising efforts but said Hindu chauvinist BJP thugs had attacked its relief workers.