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Commentary A Lesson for the Sierra Leone Government: The Key to Reducing the Cost of Living in Sierra Leone By Mohamed A. Jalloh (USA) (...)

Joel Beinin on strikes, the labour movement and workers' organizing before, during and after the Egyptian intifada.

The current leaders of both national labor organizations have close ties to the state and tend to make more excuses for state actions than do government officials themselves.

The Prime Minister, Hon. Manasseh Sogavare has officially launched the CEMA “Revitalization and Recapitalization Strategy” and formally declare CEMA’s trading and commercial functions reinstated.

NLC Needs To Transform To Be Relevant To Workers And The Nigerian Masses By Chom Bagu It is clear that the Nigeria public service must change whether we like it or not, it is the law of nature. This change is not going to be easy, so trade unions must muster the ability and capacity to constructively engage so that hardships of transiting to the new century economic and governance are not borne by workers alone. The NLC must constructively engage the Kaduna State Government on the current issue...

President Joseph Saidu Momoh’s Interview by Sierra Leone Live A brief History of President J. S. Momoh. ( Joseph_Saidu_Momoh). Joseph Saidu Momoh was born on January 26, 1937, in Binkolo, Bombali District in the Northern Province of Sierra Leone. He began his military career in 1958 with the Royal West African Frontier Force 9RWAFF) as a private. After further training in Ghana and the United Kingdom, he was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Royal Sierra Leone Military Forces in 1963...

A century of dependency Foreign intervention did not come to an end with the 1979 revolution. No, as shown by Yassamine Mather, Iran’s Islamic rulers are more than willing to do the bidding of US-controlled international institutions At the end of World War I the British empire was forced to assess the situation in the Middle East, given the dramatic changes in the international order: the fall of the German and Ottoman empires, the overthrow of the Russian tsar and the coming to power of t...