Europe
Europe: The European Union’s spiral of crisis
Workers alternative needed to agenda of Europe’s bosses
Europe
Britain
Britain: The ConDem coalition
Not-so-new politics
Britain
Scotland: Westminster coalition of savage cuts takes power
Time for mass struggle to fight the cuts
Britain
Britain: New government… the onslaught of cuts
Peter Taaffe, general secretary of the Socialist Party, gave a sober but inspiring analysis of the general election outcome on a London meeting of the Socialist Party. Hear his speech here (40 min, mp3-file).
Europe
Slovenia: Students smash parliament buildings in anger at government’s attacks
10,000 students and school students protested in Slovenia’s capital, Ljubljana, on 19 May. A demonstration began on Preseren Square. Students then moved to the Slovenian parliament and smashed its facade with eggs, stones and bottles. […]
Ireland North
Obituary: Peter Hadden – an inspiring life for socialism
PETER HADDEN, Northern secretary of the Irish section of the Committee for a Workers International (CWI), the Socialist Party, sadly died at the age of 60, in Belfast, on 5 May after a three year […]
Italy
Italy: ControCorrente embraces the CWI
A week-end of discussion on perspectives for the left – in Italy and in Europe – against the background of international capitalist crisis.
Britain
Britain: Con-Dem-ned to cuts… – Time for the fight of our lives
Britain has been ‘Con Dem-ned’ to a future of savage attacks on public services, pay, pensions and benefits combined with tax increases for working and middle-class people.
Britain
Britain: Support the British Airways Strikers
Cabin crew turn up the pressure on BA boss
Spain
++ NEWSFLASH ++ Spain: Public sector general strike called for 2 June
Unions respond to new austerity measures