Ireland Republic
Ireland: Bin Tax Battle reaches decisive stage
The 3-year old campaign in the Southern Irish capital, Dublin, against double taxation for workers in the form of a bin tax has reached a decisive stage.
Articles by Mick Barry, Socialist Party, Ireland
Ireland Republic
Ireland Republic: Joe Higgins MP and Councillor Clare Daly threatened with prison for fighting the Bin Tax!
Yesterday afternoon a judge in the High Court in Dublin granted Fingal council a permanent injunction against fifteen anti-bin tax campaign activists including ten Socialist Party members.
Sweden
Swedish Euro Referendum: Workers firmly reject bosses’ Europe
On 14 September, history was made in Sweden. Never in an election or a referendum in this country has the distrust against the establishment and big business been so clearly expressed as in the referendum […]
Britain
Britain: Arms fair, inside and out – one
Exclusive pictures from inside (19 pictures) and outside (12 pictures) the arms fair held in London.
Comment & Analysis
review: The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell.
ON A bright June day in Liverpool in 1977, hundreds of trade unionists and socialists took part in a march to rally at the final resting place of Robert Noonan – known more popularly as […]
Belgium
Belgium: Vlaams Blok: what it is and how to fight it?
Roots in the collaboration with the nazis
América
América Latina: El colapso de la política neoliberal
El movimiento de los trabajadores y los pobres a lo largo del continente avanza a distintos ritmos, sin embargo, esta claro que la situación de “estabilidad democrática y crecimiento económico” con el que se pavonearon […]
Comment & Analysis
W.E.B. Dubois: The Souls of Black Folk revisited
In 1903, sociologist, scholar, and historian W.E.B. Dubois (1868-1963) wrote his book The Souls of Black Folk, which would make a vital contribution to the struggle of African Americans in the post-Civil War and Reconstruction […]
América
Brasil: Un nuevo partido de Izquierda?
“No digo que el sueño acabo, pero creo que soñé el sueño errado”. Con esta frase, el diputado federal Fernando Gabeira de Río de Janeiro acaba de anunciar su desafiliación del PT, en protesta contra […]
Austria
Austria: Angry protest against privatisation
On 5 September 300 steel workers gave voice to their anger against the privatisation of the last 35 percent of the once fully state owned steel works Voestalpine in Linz, Upper Austria.