Britain
Britain: Towards a new workers’ party
New Labour’s 2005 conference signified another, and perhaps decisive, nail in the coffin of this party as a specifically working-class party, at least at its base.
Europe
Belgium
Belgium: 100,000 workers demonstrate in Brussels
Resistance against government’s pension cuts far from “isolated”
Sweden
Sweden: World health – profits block ‘flu medicine
For a global socialist health programme
Netherlands
Netherlands: Immigrants die in fire “Like rats in a trap”
Makeshift detention centre failed safety standards
Austria
Austria: Freedom Party strengthened in Vienna elections
Only minor gains for Social Democrats (SPÖ), Socialist Alternative needed
France
France: French government’s new war on the workers
More privatisations, tax cuts for the rich and attacks on workers’ rights
Belgium
Belgium: Unions call national day of action against pension reforms
28 October strike poses need for new workers’ party
Sweden
Sweden: Rail company’s history of union busting
Strikes against Connex in Britain, France, Finland
Sweden
Sweden: Strong solidarity against Connex rail firm’s union busting
Underground train drivers demand political strike
Ireland Republic
Ireland: Irish Ferries’ slave labour
Strike action needed now