Ireland North
Northern Ireland: Belfast postal workers on unofficial strike
Second week of industrial action against bosses’ bullying
Europe
Italy
Italy: Drama over metal mechanics’ national agreement
Deal finally signed after 13 months of negotiation and 60 hours’ of strike action.
Ireland North
Northern Ireland: British fears of civil war and “a Portugal on our doorstep” in 1975 state papers
Warnings of the effect of a British withdrawal
Britain
Britain: Building a new shop stewards’ movement
Linking the industrial to the political
Germany
Germany: Facing the challenges of building a genuine new left party
Successful conference of Party for Work and Justice – The Electoral Alternative (WASG) condemns cuts policy of the Left Party.PDS
Germany
Germany: Which way forward for the left?
The left was the only true winner of last September’s general election.
Britain
Britain: Potential for new mass working class party
The potential for beginning to build a new mass working-class party in England and Wales was glimpsed in outline at the RMT rail union discussion conference on the crisis of working-class political representation on 21 […]
Britain
Britain: “A socialist alternative to New Labour can get mass appeal”
Union-sponsored conference debates way forward for working class and youth
Britain
Britain: For an alternative to New Labour
For genuine working-class representation
Britain
Britain: 2006 – a year of big changes. Fighting back against the millionaires’ system
Capitalism unable to deliver an advance in living standards, peace or equality.