Britain
Britain: London firefighters balloting for action
Up to 1,000 firefighters poured into the conference room of TUC headquarters for a mass meeting of the London Fire Brigades Union (FBU) on Tuesday night (24 August).
Europe
Hungary
Hungary: Saying ‘NO’ to the IMF?
The Hungarian parliamentary elections in April 2010 secured a landslide victory for the conservative FIDESZ party, with their leader Victor Orbán retaking the Prime Ministerial position that he had held from 1998 to 2002.
Britain
Britain: Protest against brutal attack on Russian activists continue
London Socialist Party members travelled to Watford (North of London) to deliver a protest letter to the Vinci regional office.
Russia
Russia: “We will not relent in our struggle”!
Solidarity message from socialist brutally assaulted by thugs
Europe
29 September: Europe braced for working class action across borders
Towards a 24 hour all-European general strike!
Britain
Britain: Student demo should be start of the fightback
With thousands of young people being denied a university place, facing a substandard education, forced into low paid work or left on the scrapheap of unemployment, a nationally organised fightback is essential.
France
France: The decay of Sarkozy’s government
Racism, corruption, economic crisis and class struggle
Britain
Britain: Forecasts of fragile economic growth…
…amid fears of a double-dip recession
Germany
Germany: Mass protests against “Stuttgart 21”
While most of Germany is on summer holiday the southern city of Stuttgart has seen, every few days, thousands of people take to the streets in protest…
Italy
Italy: Government crisis against background of growing polarisation
Towards a wave of struggle?