Ireland North
Northern Ireland: 30th anniversary of the death of hunger striker Bobby Sands
Thatcher’s brutal prisons regime
Europe
Germany
Germany: Berlin hospital workers on strike
2,500 on strike demo
Britain
Britain’s royal wedding: Not much bread but there’s plenty of circuses
Witness the media torrent of sickly sentimentality over the royal wedding.
Ukraine
Chernobyl disaster: 25th anniversary
Scientists estimate nuclear fall-out caused over 200,000 deaths
Belarus
Belarus: Bomb attack on Minsk metro leaves 13 dead
President Lukashenko uses outrage to attack working class
Finland
Finland: Massive protest vote in elections
Right wing populist ‘True Finns’ third biggest party
France
France: Sarkozy instigates ban on veil to boost his political ratings
What attitude should socialists adopt in defending women’s rights?
Britain
Britain: NSSN anti-cuts strategy vindicated
Developments in SWP confirm Socialist Party’s arguments for NSSN anti-cuts campaign
Finland
Finland: Protest against racist polices of True Finns party
Following last Sunday’s parliamentary election in Finland, talks are taking place on forming a coalition government. The results saw a big increase in support for the anti-immigrant, rightwing populist True Finns party, gaining 19.0% (39 […]
Britain
Britain: Con-Dems’ economic policy … austerity, austerity, austerity!
’The worst is yet to come’