Europe
Europe: Euro elections – ‘Kicked in the ballot box’
Establishment parties take a battering at polls
Europe
Scotland
Scotland: Nursery nurses end 14 week strike
The background to this dispute is rooted in years of under investment in public services and a total disregard by the employers of the vital role nursery nurses provide in early years education.
Italy
Italy: A slap across the wrist for Berlusconi
The Party of Silvio Berlusconi, Forza Italia, took a beating in yesterday’s European and provincial elections. It went from 25.2% in the European election of 1999 to 21% yesterday. But compared to its vote in […]
Netherlands
Netherlands: Workers demonstrate against ‘Enemies of the working class’
Interview with dock workers´ leaders
Italy
Italy: Anti-war and Anti-Bush demo in Rome
"No Bush – No war", 100,000 strong week-day protest.
Germany
Germany: “People not profit”
400 people attended the “Socialism Days 2004” organised by Socialist Alternative (SAV). It was an opportunity to discuss, debate, exchange ideas and put forward a programme for the struggle against a system that provides nothing […]
Scotland
Scotland: Defending a socialist programme
Kevin reveals his position when he says in his article: "Those who see politics purely in terms of capitalism or socialism have yet to make any serious attempt to explain how a controlling class can […]
Serbia
Serbia: Elections results reveal instability
Neo-liberals victory means attacks on working people
Netherlands
Netherlands: Dockworkers force union to take strike action against government cuts
After angry dockworkers threatened to strike, even without the unions, the biggest union in the Netherlands is now supporting strike action on the 7th and 11th of June. This strike will be aimed at the […]
Ireland North
N Ireland: Dessian factory strike
Workers at the Dessian factory in Belfast have gone on strike over the sacking of a shop steward. Dessian, which is a locally owned company making PVC windows, employs over 100 at it’s Belfast plant […]