Socialist Worker | issue 533 | August 2011

The bombs in Afghanistan have landed in Norway

A decade of Islamophobia to justify the war in Afghanistan is now spreading violence to the West. Right-wing Islamophobe Anders Behring Breivik has killed (at least) 77 people in Norway, through the explosion of a bomb near the Prime Minister’s building and a shooting spree in a youth camp organized by the Workers’ Youth League, the youth wing of Norway’s Labour Party.

Famine in the Horn of Africa

Millions of people living in East Africa are currently facing the worst drought in the region in 60 years. On July 20, the UN officially declared famine in two regions of southern Somalia. Over 3.7 million Somalis—more than one in three—are in urgent need of humanitarian assistance and in some areas of southern Somalia nearly half of the population is malnourished. These are the highest malnutrition rates in the world.

New wave of the Egyptian Revolution

Five months after the overthrow of dictator Hosni Mubarak, the ongoing Egyptian Revolution is entering a new phase with mass demonstrations and sit-ins across the country.