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Austria: Important success in defending women’s right to abortion

July 16, 2003 Claudia Sorger, Socialist Left Party, Austria

An important case in defending women´s right to abortion was won on 10 July at the end of a lower court trial. SLP member Claudia Sorger (the Socialist Left Party is the CWI´s affiliate in […]

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Austria: Over one million strike against pension cuts

June 4, 2003 Laura Rafetseder, SLP, Vienna

More than 1 million workers in 18,000 workplaces all over Austria, a third of the entire Austrian workforce, took industrial action on 3 June – the country’s biggest strike since World War Two.

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Austria: Mass protests oppose pension cuts

May 15, 2003 Sonja Grusch, Sozialistiche LinksPartei, Vienna

On 13 May, in the late afternoon, 200,000 people (according to the ÖGB, the Austrian trade union federation) marched through the streets of Vienna against the government’s pension ‘reforms’ (the police said "over 100,000" participated).

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Austria: Workers take action against pension ‘reforms’

May 7, 2003 Sonja Grusch, Sozialistiche LinksPartei, Vienna

Tuesday, 6 May, was a historic day for Austria. For the first time in decades the Ã-GB (Austrian trade union federation) called for a national day of action, including strikes. According to the Ã-GB about […]

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Austria: Battle on pensions goes into decisive round

April 30, 2003 Franz Breier jun., Vienna

April 29 saw up to 3,000 workers attend a morning open-air workplace meeting of the OMV (Austrian oil company) and other companies in Vienna in protest at the government’s attacks on the pension system. This […]

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Austria: Austrian trade unions call “defence-strikes”

April 24, 2003 Franz Breier, SLP Vienna

Today the ÖGB (Austrian trade union federation) decided to organise "defence-strikes" on Tuesday April 29 in protest against the Peoples Party – Freedom Party (ÖVP-FPÖ) government’s attacks on the pension system. Reflecting the huge popular […]

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Austria: Preparations for battle against pension cuts

April 19, 2003 Franz Breierjun, SLP, Vienna

The Austrian ÖVP-FPÖ coalition government started its general attack on the country’s pension system while missiles hit cities in Iraq. The implementation of these "reform" plans will mean that working people can expect between 10% […]

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Austria: Return of the “Blue-Black” coalition

March 5, 2003 Vienna

The re-formation of the coalition government between the People’s Party (ÖVP) and the far right Freedom Party (FPÖ) will leave many people in Austria angry, demotivated or frustrated. The fact that any other government coalition […]

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Austria: New government of crisis

February 28, 2003 Franz Breier, Sozialististiche LinksPartie (SLP), Vienna

Today the new ("old") Austrian government will be announced. After coalition talks with the both the Greens and Social Democrats the ÖVP (Peoples Party, conservatives) decided to turn back to the weakened far-right Freedom Party […]

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Austria: No change at the top?

February 10, 2003 Laura Rafetseder, London

Following the breakdown of the coalition between the conservative People’s Party and Haider’s far right Freedom Party last September, Austria held new elections in November that resulted in gains for the conservatives and a disaster […]

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