Europe

Indignados are a new factor in Spanish politics

Elections take place amid youth revolt

Under the cover of the crisis an unprecedented offensive against the rights and conditions of the working class is underway.

“I do not want to be a slave to this system”[to watch a live stream from Puerta del Sol go to SOL TV]

Left in Turin loses an opportunity

“May 15 movement” holds country-wide demonstrations

The Greek bailout implemented last year has not worked. Greece, moreover, is far from being an isolated case.

The desperate need for a clear lead to re-develop the movement

The root of the government’s weakness is the continuing profound crisis of capitalism in general and British capitalism in particular

But majority government of savage cuts will meet working class resistance

A “silent revolution” is underway in the European Union according to Commission President Barosso. This counter-revolution of “economic governance” involves a further diminution of democracy in order to facilitate the imposition of a European “shock […]

Thatcher’s brutal prisons regime

2,500 on strike demo

Witness the media torrent of sickly sentimentality over the royal wedding.

Scientists estimate nuclear fall-out caused over 200,000 deaths

President Lukashenko uses outrage to attack working class

Right wing populist ‘True Finns’ third biggest party

What attitude should socialists adopt in defending women’s rights?

Developments in SWP confirm Socialist Party’s arguments for NSSN anti-cuts campaign

Following last Sunday’s parliamentary election in Finland, talks are taking place on forming a coalition government. The results saw a big increase in support for the anti-immigrant, rightwing populist True Finns party, gaining 19.0% (39 […]

’The worst is yet to come’

Vote against cuts in 5 May elections

Thesis of the European bureau of the CWI

Nearly two thirds of Icelanders say ‘No!’ to Icesave deal

Peter Taaffe, Socialist Party general secretary, was the final platform speaker at a London aggregate to discuss the prospects of the trade union and anti-cuts movement

For a 24 hour general strike!

Whichever combination of party’s form the next Scottish government, it will be a government that will attempt to carry through the deepest cuts in decades.

Mass protest against nuclear energy, Green Party victory in regional elections

The massive Trade Union Congress (TUC – trade union federation) demonstration against public spending cuts was well over half a million strong, possibly 700,000 or more.

How to fight austerity and capitalism

Government pushed into defensive by Fukushima disaster and mass unrest

Trades Union Congress national ’march for the alternative: jobs, growth, justice’

A fighting alternative to Berlusconi is needed

On 13 February, one million women (and men) marched in 230 towns and cities across Italy.

Conservative – Liberal Democrat government cuts devastating impact on women

Britain braced for massive 26 March demonstration

A party growing in strength

IN THE space of one month, the way young people are viewed by the mass media – and by themselves – was turned upside down.

Dramatic changes have affected Britain. The student protests of last year set the scene. Now the prospect of significant industrial action against savage public-sector cutbacks is on the agenda.

The massive 27% cut in central government funding to local authorities is having devastating consequences.

Four Socialist Party members were disciplined by Unison on trumped-up charges of racism, after producing a leaflet at the 2007 Unison conference, challenging the Standing Orders Committee (SOC) about ruling resolutions off the conference agenda.

Kick out Mubarak and his cronies

‘Opposition to all cuts, support for industrial action by workers and mass resistance’

Dip reflects the fragility of British capitalism’s ‘recovery’

Unprecedented political vendetta ends in draconian sentence

One day strike in engineering industry this Friday

Nearly 600 people, mostly workers with elected positions in trade union branches, trades councils, workplaces and anti-cuts alliances, met in London on 22 January for the special anti-cuts conference of the National Shop Stewards Network […]

National Shop Stewards Network conference 22 January