Serbia
Serbia: Elections results reveal instability
Neo-liberals victory means attacks on working people
Europe
Netherlands
Netherlands: Dockworkers force union to take strike action against government cuts
After angry dockworkers threatened to strike, even without the unions, the biggest union in the Netherlands is now supporting strike action on the 7th and 11th of June. This strike will be aimed at the […]
Belgium
Belgium: Student election success
The Active Left Students (ALS), the student organisation of the LSP/MAS, the Belgian affiliate of the cwi, has won a second election victory at the Flemish university in Brussels.
Sweden
cwi: election campaigns 2004 – Sweden – Anti-racism and health care our main issues
Socialist voice in low temperature elections
Ireland North
N Ireland: Dessian factory strike
Workers at the Dessian factory in Belfast have gone on strike over the sacking of a shop steward. Dessian, which is a locally owned company making PVC windows, employs over 100 at it’s Belfast plant […]
Austria
Austria: Rail workers rebel against their union leadership
At the end of April, the Austrian railway workers’ union (GdE) signed a deal with management on a new labour contract that included changes in work times and sick pay.
Kosova / Kosovo
Kosovo/Kosova: UN/NATO fuels sex slave trade
Restoration of capitalism creates barbaric conditions
Ireland Republic
Ireland: Joe Higgins condemns government’s scaremongering against protesters
Police brutality and water cannons used against May Day protesters in Dublin
Ireland Republic
Ireland: Joe Higgins condemns ‘Citizenship Referendum’
Socialist MP exposes use of race card by government
Ireland Republic
Ireland: ‘One Joe Higgins more effective than five Sinn Féin TDs’
Just one Joe Higgins is immensely more effective than all five of the Sinn Féin TDs, according to Labour leader Pat Rabbitte. Attacking Sinn Féin’s track record, Mr Rabbitte said the party works hard at […]