Ireland Republic
Ireland: Sinn Fein embraces capitalism
Republican leadership considers entering coalition government with bosses’ parties
Europe
Ireland Republic
Ireland: Joe Higgins condemns Irish Ferries 543 sackings
Socialist MP attacks replacing union workers with cheap, exploited labour.
Britain
Britain: Socialism 2005 – Rally and weekend school
Successful rally and weekend of discussion and debate hosted by the Socialist Party
Sweden
Sweden: Stockholm Connex workers’ fight bosses’ attack on their union
An appeal for support – Connex employees plan new strike
France
France: ‘Government’s policies set the suburbs on fire’
’Chirac-Villepin-Sarkozy – We’ve had enough!"’
Portugal
Portugal: Workers demonstrate against cutbacks
’Socialist’ government’s policies threaten French-style explosion
France
france: eleven days of rioting across France
Establishment’s cultivated image of ‘equality for all’ goes up in flames
France
France: right wing interior minister Sarkozy insults youth on estates
‘Sarkozy: We’ve had enough! No to repression! No to racism!’
Germany
Germany: Electoral success for German left – now organise resistance!
The result speaks in very clear language: there is no majority for the neo-liberal attacks of the previous red/green government of Gerhard Schröder and Joschka Fischer, or the even harsher ones proposed by Angela Merkel […]
Germany
Germany: What the Greens did in power
Seven years in coalition government showed Greens were an establishment party