Sweden
Sweden: Government plans drastic cuts to jobless benefits
Workers’ anger forces TUC to call protests
Articles by Per Olsson, Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (CWI in Sweden)
Australia
Australia: Why Labor won the Victoria State elections
Greens fail to make promised breakthrough
Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka: War preparations must be stopped!
The leader of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, in his Heroes’ Day speech, has warned of an end to the cease-fire and of the ‘Tigers’ renewing their demand for independence.
Netherlands
Netherlands: Elections bring major changes to political landscape
Left course needed to build on Socialist Party’s polls breakthrough
Pakistan
Pakistan: Breakthrough first National Convention of Trade Union Rights Campaign Pakistan (TURCP)
More than 300 Trade Unionists in attendance
Australia
Australia: Socialist Party trebles its vote in Victoria State elections
Largest SP poll from public housing voters
Bolivia
Bolivia: Bolivian Politics Heating Up Once Again
Right-wing opposition to left-leaning Bolivian president, Evo Morales, and his governing party, Movement towards Socialism (MAS), has increased dramatically in the last week as potential conflicts that have been brewing for months have recently come […]
Mexico
Mexico: More violence in Oaxaca
Confrontations between police and demonstrators result in 48 wounded and 60 arrests
Belgium
Belgium: Closure of Volkswagen factory shocks country
Up to 11,000 jobs threatened
Portugal
Portugal: “We are fighting back against a major offensive from the ‘Blairite’ Partido Socialista government”
Two day public services general strike