Cyprus
Cyprus: Western powers’ reunification plan ends in failure
THE LATEST attempt by the United Nations (UN) and European Union (EU) ministers to unify the divided island of Cyprus has ended in failure, amid bitter recriminations.
Europe
Europe
EU enlargement in Central Europe: No mood to party
On 1 May ten countries will join the European Union after months of negotiations and a series of successful referendums. ‘New Europe’, as famously described by Donald Rumsfeld, has married ‘Old Europe’, but is this […]
Serbia
Serbia and Montenegro: NATO faces genocide charge
1999 imperialist war against Serbia in the dock
Macedonia
Macedonia: Presidential candidates are no choice for working people
Only united working class can show way out of crisis
Ireland North
Northern Ireland: building a socialist alternative
Across Western Europe there is a debate on the left as to the best way to create or recreate new mass parties of the working class. The sharp move to the right of the social […]
Netherlands
Netherlands: 15,000 demonstrate expulsion of refugees
Time for unions to break with government/bosses’ ‘social agreement’
Ireland North
Northern Ireland: Dirty tricks & collusion
Will the truth come out?
Europe
European Union: “Counter-terrorism” will not stop terrorism, but threatens democratic rights
“Counter-terrorism” was one of the main issues at the EU summit in Brussels 25-26 March.
Germany
Germany: Half a million march against government’s social cuts
Huge anger against Schröder’s ‘Agenda 2010’ onslaught
France
French elections: Raffarin’s ‘reforms’ decisively rejected
Prospect of new wave of workers’ struggles