Germany
Germany: The tuition fees disaster
Hessen federal state forced to promise to abolish student financial burden
Europe
Portugal
Portugal: Social turmoil as country hit by economic crisis
Workers respond with action
Scotland
Scotland: Rally boosts campaign to defend Tommy Sheridan
Murdoch and ’friends’ attacked by array of well known labour movement figures
Ireland North
Northern Ireland: Belfast Airport workers
The long battle for justice
Germany
Germany: The Left party holds its first national congress
"Measure DIE LINKE by its actions"
Ireland North
Northern Ireland: Sacked airport shop steward, Gordon McNeill, calls off hunger strike after doctors threaten court action to have him force fed
Shop stewards say they will now defy and resist the Unite injunction barring them from protesting at Transport House
Belgium
Belgium: Spontaneous strike wave pushes union leaders into calling action over wages
Government and bosses fear all-out battle with working class
Ireland North
Northern Ireland: Sacked airport workers accuse Unite leadership of issuing “black propaganda and disinformation” to try to discredit them.
Gordon McNeill remains on hunger strike at Transport House – His protest enters the 14th day.
Ireland North
Northern Ireland: Unite union serves injunction and threatens protesting shop stewards with fines and imprisonment
"Unite are trying to deny us our democratic right to peacefully protest." Gordon McNeill
Ireland North
Northern Ireland: The Good Friday Agreement – 10 years on
Sectarian politicians’ power-sharing Assembly not a solution