Italy
Italy: Drama over metal mechanics’ national agreement
Deal finally signed after 13 months of negotiation and 60 hours’ of strike action.
Europe
Ireland Republic
Ireland: Move to right by Labour leadership on immigrant workers’ rights
All workers’ pay and conditions under threat of attack
Ireland North
Northern Ireland: British fears of civil war and “a Portugal on our doorstep” in 1975 state papers
Warnings of the effect of a British withdrawal
Britain
Britain: Building a new shop stewards’ movement
Linking the industrial to the political
Germany
Germany: Facing the challenges of building a genuine new left party
Successful conference of Party for Work and Justice – The Electoral Alternative (WASG) condemns cuts policy of the Left Party.PDS
Ireland Republic
Ireland: “No to EU directive that undermines a decent wage, conditions and union rights”
Socialist MP condemns EU Services Directive neo-liberal attack
Germany
Germany: Which way forward for the left?
The left was the only true winner of last September’s general election.
Britain
Britain: Potential for new mass working class party
The potential for beginning to build a new mass working-class party in England and Wales was glimpsed in outline at the RMT rail union discussion conference on the crisis of working-class political representation on 21 […]
Britain
Britain: “A socialist alternative to New Labour can get mass appeal”
Union-sponsored conference debates way forward for working class and youth
Portugal
Portugal: Neo-liberal candidate wins Presidential elections
Governing social democrats in crisis