“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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 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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