France
France: General strike against pension attacks sees huge workers’ protests
Sarkozy forced to mouth concessions but fight set to escalate
Articles by Cedric Gerome, CWI
France
France: Joe Higgins condemns scapegoating of Roma peoples by Sarkozy
Joe Higgins MEP explains why he voted in favour of the resolution condemning French President Nicolas Sarkozy for his racist policies of scapegoating and deporting peoples from the Roma minority in France.
Europe
European Day of action: Statement of Left MEPs from GUE/NGL on 29/9
"Support European Day of Action against Austerity – 29 September should be day of active struggle, protests and strikes across Europe"
USA
US / Afghanistan: War Plans in Disarray — Bring the Troops Home Now
Ten months after President Obama announced he would add 31,000 more United States troops to the war in Afghanistan, his surge is showing signs of failing.
Britain
Youth in Britain: Our future under attack
Fightback! Join the day of action on 20 October
History & Anniversaries
Turkey: 12 September 2010 – 30th anniversary of the military coup
For the Turkish and Kurdish working class and the left, September 12 is above all a day of remembrance of one of the heaviest blows against the workers in recent history.
Turkey
Referendum in Turkey: Erdoğan tries to change the balance of forces
CHP offers no alternative
Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan: Police prevent human rights defender meeting Joe Higgins, MEP
Police hold human rights defender, Vadim Kuramshin, for 10 days to prevent him meeting Joe Higgins MEP
Ireland Republic
Ireland: Brian Cowen fifth best global leader! You must be joking
Despite being the most unpopular Taoiseach in the history of the state, at the head of the most unpopular government in the history of the state, Brian Cowen has been ranked as the fifth best […]
Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan: Visiting socialist MEP meets workers in struggle & opposition activists
Brutal Nazerbayev regime presides over ticking social time-bomb