Protesters march in front of Police Headquarters in Jakarta on Monday. They criticized the police’s shooting of and killing villagers who were rallying in Bima against a gold mining company. The protestors urged the president to remove Chief Police Timur Pradopo. (JG Photo/Safir Makki) Jakarta Globe. Protesters in cities across the country on Monday continued to voice their outrage over

Moh Yasir Alimi, Semarang | Tue, 2/27/2011 8:41  Jakarta Post-opinion. The nation watched another spectacle of police brutality unfold on Saturday, this time in Bima, West Nusa Tenggara, when several hundred officers used force to dispel peaceful protestors occupying Sape port at 6 a.m. when many were still sleeping, praying or cooking. Two people were shot dead and 31 were injured. The

Plataforma Aigua és Vida. El Govern ha endegat una campanya per a traspassar ATLL als seus sectors afins, en detriment de la ciutadania de Catalunya. Aquest Govern deixa en mans del sector privat l'obtenció del recurs i certs aspectes de planificació. - Catalunya / Ecologia, Catalunya

El Triangle. La fotoperiodista Patricia Bobillo ha denunciat que la Casa Elizalde li ha cancel·lat l'exposició Dones palestines sota l'ocupació israeliana que estava prevista per al 8 de març, dia internacional de la dona treballadora. - Catalunya / Catalunya, llibertats, Palestina

The following statement was issued on December 17 by the Revolutionary Socialists in Egypt - IV443 - December 2011 / Egypt, Arab Revolutions

Tehreek Insaaf is in fast forward mode to become the latest political party of the capitalist and feudal class. Originating in the middle class, it is en route to becoming the third largest party of the rich in Pakistan. - IV443 - December 2011 / Pakistan

The Pakistan Afghan Progressive parties two days conference ended December 22 in Lahore. It was first time after decades that a formal meeting was organised between the progressive groups of the two countries. It was attended by 10 political groups from both countries, four from Afghanistan and six from Pakistan. Almost all the main Left groups of Pakistan attended this conference. It was chaired by three young activists, Sonia Qadir, Ammar Ali Jan and Aman Karriaper. This is the joint declaration it agreed. - IV443 - December 2011 / Pakistan, Afghanistan

The Tunisian elections of October 23, 2011 are far from having closed the chapter opened in January 2011. Faced with the contination of neoliberal social and economic policies as well as the attacks agains women's rights, mobilisations have resumed with still more vigour. - IV443 - December 2011

A collective call for the mass general strike which will begin on December 11, 2011 has been launched. This call is the first common initiative of all the structures and groups engaged in the popular revolution, which constitutes in itself a significant positive development for the unification of popular and political energies in the revolution against the regime of arbitrariness, oppression and exploitation. We consider that this amounts to a qualitative step towards its fall. - IV443 - December 2011 / Syria

The debt in the North, i.e. in the most industrialized countries, [1] began to reach high levels in the 1980s. And with reason. Following the first oil crisis and the 1973-1975 economic crisis, governments tried giving a Keynesian boost to the economy and resorted to borrowing. Debt servicing then soared when the US Federal Reserve suddenly raised interest rates (October 1979) thus marking a break from the past 46 years of Keynesian policy initiated in 1933 during Franklin Roosevelt's first term. - IV434 - March 2011 / USA, Greece, Economy, Global Justice, European Union, Debt