"Honour killings" and the oppression of women

7 March 2011. A World to Win News Service. It has been nearly four years since Doa Khalil, a 17-year-old woman in Iraqi Kurdistan, was stoned to death by her relatives to protect the "family honour". This dreadful act shocked those who saw the clips of the scene recorded on mobile phones and circulated on the Internet. It dramatically demonstrated the ongoing oppression of women in a patriarchal world.

Since then an increasing number of young women ...

On the 14 February Iranian people's protests

28 February 2011. A World to Win News Service. In the largest anti-regime protest in a year, on 14 February the Iranian people came to the streets once again in solidarity with the people's struggles in the Middle East. The uprising that started in June 2008 after the fraudulent presidential election had suffered a setback due to both the brutal suppression of the regime and the weaknesses of the reformist leaders.

Despite denying permission for the ...

Libya: Big powers need new monster

28 February 2011. A World to Win News Service. The Western powers may have turned against Muammar al-Gaddafi, declaring him mentally unstable after discovering his unexpected political instability, but he has been their man.

He has ruled not only in their political interests, but even more basically in the interests of their finance capital and world economic system, and in turn their interests have been his. If they are ready to dump him now, it is not becaus...