France
france: eleven days of rioting across France
Establishment’s cultivated image of ‘equality for all’ goes up in flames
Europe
France
France: right wing interior minister Sarkozy insults youth on estates
‘Sarkozy: We’ve had enough! No to repression! No to racism!’
Germany
Germany: Electoral success for German left – now organise resistance!
The result speaks in very clear language: there is no majority for the neo-liberal attacks of the previous red/green government of Gerhard Schröder and Joschka Fischer, or the even harsher ones proposed by Angela Merkel […]
Germany
Germany: What the Greens did in power
Seven years in coalition government showed Greens were an establishment party
Britain
Britain: Towards a new workers’ party
New Labour’s 2005 conference signified another, and perhaps decisive, nail in the coffin of this party as a specifically working-class party, at least at its base.
Netherlands
Netherlands: Immigrants die in fire “Like rats in a trap”
Makeshift detention centre failed safety standards
France
France: French government’s new war on the workers
More privatisations, tax cuts for the rich and attacks on workers’ rights
Austria
Austria: Freedom Party strengthened in Vienna elections
Only minor gains for Social Democrats (SPÖ), Socialist Alternative needed
Germany
Germany: New government will be a ‘Grand Coalition’ against workers
Left must build on election success with socialist policies
Scotland
Scotland: Scottish by-elections
Workers reject political establishment