Europe

The declaration for a new party announced by Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana began with a bang, with 800,000 signing up in support. Since then, of course, public divisions at the top have dampened some […]

The Austrian ruling coalition of conservatives (ÖVP – People’s party), social democrats (SPÖ) and liberals (NEOS), formed in March this year six months after a general election, is implementing an austerity package totalling 15 billion […]

In the new Romania of acute austerity, the government seems overwhelmed by inner division while locked in a conflict with the judiciary. At the same time, important student struggles have taken place, with mixed results. […]

There is growing and widespread dissatisfaction with capitalism worldwide. Economic models that dominated the post-WW2 decades — Keynesian social democracy and later neoliberal globalization — are seen as having run aground. The system today is […]

Catherine Connolly has won the 2025 Irish presidential election in a landslide victory. Her candidacy was supported by left and social democratic parties, the Greens and by Sinn Fein. Connolly secured  63.36%  of the vote. […]

Yesterday a judge in Belfast gave a ‘not guilty’ verdict regarding ‘Soldier F’,  a former parachute regiment solider who was accused of the murder of two civilians in Derry city, on January 30th 1972, in […]

This year has seen France plunged into one of the most serious political and social crises since the founding of the 5th Republic by Charles De Gaulle in 1958, when a ‘soft’ coup installed the […]

With characteristic hypocrisy and cynical opportunism, the far-right have pounced after  the alleged sickening sexual assault on a 10-year-old girl in Citywest. A man from the Citywest IPAS centre has been charged with this assault. […]