The successful election campaign of the Marxists in the PPP
in the constituency of NA-257 Karachi threatens to upset the plans of the
reactionary MQM party that has dominated the area. It is however clear that
they are preparing to use all means possible to rig the result, including armed
gangs, death threats.
The largest human migration in the world gets under way every Chinese New Year, as China's 120 million strong army of migrant workers make their annual trip home. This year heavy snows led to railways and roads being overburdened and transport bottlenecks wreaked sudden nationwide chaos.
On
January 27, 2008 General Soeharto, former dictator of Indonesia,
passed away. This man was responsible for the murder of hundreds of thousands
of communists in a bloody coup in 1965. Despite these monstrous
crimes and his well-documented corruption the old butcher died
in his bed, untouched by the law.