Europe

A large proportion of the nearly 1,000 socialists at Socialism 2025 were young workers and students, many attending for the first time. The Socialism 2025 weekend, 15-16 November, in London brought together working-class campaigners, students […]

The anti-immigrant, Islamophobic and far-right party of Geert Wilders, the Party for Freedom (PVV), suffered a severe blow in Dutch parliamentary elections on the 29th of October, falling back from 37 to 26 seats. Left parties failed […]

The declaration for a new party announced by Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana began with a bang, with 800,000 signing up in support. Since then, of course, public divisions at the top have dampened some […]

The Austrian ruling coalition of conservatives (ÖVP – People’s party), social democrats (SPÖ) and liberals (NEOS), formed in March this year six months after a general election, is implementing an austerity package totalling 15 billion […]

In the new Romania of acute austerity, the government seems overwhelmed by inner division while locked in a conflict with the judiciary. At the same time, important student struggles have taken place, with mixed results. […]

There is growing and widespread dissatisfaction with capitalism worldwide. Economic models that dominated the post-WW2 decades — Keynesian social democracy and later neoliberal globalization — are seen as having run aground. The system today is […]

Catherine Connolly has won the 2025 Irish presidential election in a landslide victory. Her candidacy was supported by left and social democratic parties, the Greens and by Sinn Fein. Connolly secured  63.36%  of the vote. […]

Yesterday a judge in Belfast gave a ‘not guilty’ verdict regarding ‘Soldier F’,  a former parachute regiment solider who was accused of the murder of two civilians in Derry city, on January 30th 1972, in […]