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Austria

Austria

“Strike week” gaining momentum in Austria

December 1, 2022 Laura Rafetseder, Sozialistische Offensive (CWI in Austria)

“Railways, breweries, shops and retail, telecom, hospitals, universities: Let’s all strike together! For cross-sector strikes and a joint movement!” is the slogan that the CWI in Austria has been using in discussions with workers on […]

Austria

Austria’s second largest city “on the brink of bankruptcy”

November 16, 2022 Sandra Auer, SO Vienna

Communist party led Graz council must fend off attacks with mobilisations for more finance – No to cuts!   CP-Graz must not implement open or hidden cuts! Vacant posts must be refilled – no staff […]

Austria

Austrian workers struggle to defend living standards as political instability worsens

October 4, 2022 Laura Rafetseder, Sozialistische Offensive (CWI in Austria)

On Sunday, 25 September, the governing conservative Austrian People’s Party (ÖVP) took a hit in the regional elections in the tourism-based alpine Tyrol region, writes Laura Rafetseder, from Sozialistische Offensive (CWI in Austria). The ÖVP […]

Austria

Austrian school students walk out demanding covid health and safety measures and exam changes

February 6, 2022 Laura Rafetseder, Sozialistische Offensive (CWI in Austria)

In the middle of the Covid omicron wave, Austrian students walked out in a school strike on 26 January, following a ‘warning strike’ on 18 January. Their demands included better health and safety measures in […]

Austria

Austria: Chancellor Kurz resigns amid allegations of corruption

October 15, 2021 Laura Rafetseder, Sozialistische Offensive (CWI Austria)

Sebastian Kurz, for five years a shooting star of the European conservatives, had to “step aside” as Austria’s Chancellor on 9 October. His resignation comes amid criminal investigations against those closest to him and with […]

Austria

Communist Party wins council elections in Austria’s second-largest city

October 1, 2021 Laura Rafetseder, Sozialistische Offensive (CWI Austria)

The Communist Party in Austria, KPÖ, came first in the recent Graz city elections, with 29% of the vote (34,000 votes). This sensational result for the Communist Party in Graz (KPÖ Graz) is a result […]

Austria

Austria: Chancellor Kurz under pressure – the Left needs to mobilise and build a new workers’ party

June 1, 2021 Laura Rafetseder, Sozialistische Offensive (CWI Austria)

When Sebastian Kurz of the conservative ‘People’s Party’ (ÖVP) won the 2017 elections he was voted in as Chancellor as someone who stood for “change”. He had revamped his party, virtually renamed it, changed its […]

Austria

Vienna attack shocks Austria – Need for a united movement to fight oppression and capitalism

November 3, 2020 Laura Rafetseder, Sozialistische Offensive (CWI Austria)

Our previous article on the Vienna elections was posted just before the murderous 2 November attack on hospitality workers and people out for the evening in Vienna. There can be no justification for this attack, […]

Austria

Elections in Vienna show mood for change in turbulent times

November 2, 2020 Laura Rafetseder , Sozialistische Offensive (CWI Austria)

Against a background of a sharp increase in coronavirus infections, there was a ‘warning strike’ at the MAN plant in Steyr (owned by VW), Upper Austria, against the threatened closure of the plant. Meanwhile, the […]

Austria

Austria: Threats of strikes intensify

February 5, 2020 Laura Rafetseder , Sozialistische Offensive (CWI Austria)

Austria used to be a country in which the time lost in strikes was counted in minutes. This is beginning to change. Last year saw an increase in strike threats, particularly during last autumn’s wage […]

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