Europe

After one year, no enthusiasm for Prodi government

Scottish National Party leader Alex Salmond has been elected as the new First Minister of the Scottish parliament.

Can the agreement last?

Delegates condemn New Labour’s pro-big business policies

Curtain falls on disastrous reign

How should socialists reply?

Construct an opposition of workers and youth against Sarkozy: Sarko your policies will not pass.

Distastrous result for New Labour

Necessity to build socialist alternative to big business parties is more urgent than ever

Workers must get organised to resist new attacks!

Response shows clear socialist ideas can win support

Elections for the Scottish Parliament and local councils are to be held on 3 May. Most opinion polls are forecasting a big fall in support for New Labour.

Conference marks final demise of once powerful Communist Party

It is sickening for the impoverished working people of the ex-Soviet Union to see the praise being heaped on Boris Yeltsin, one time president of Russia, after his death from heart failure on Monday, 23 […]

But neither offers anything to French workers except more cuts and attacks on living standards

First round of the presidential elections

"Berlusconi and Prodi – two sides of the same coin"

Fight to maintain a force capable of genuine anti-capitalist struggle

Once more, Orange and Blue political blocs clash

Sinn Fein and Democratic Unionist Party change position to supporting water charging now elections are over.

WASG and Left Party/PDS vote for merger

Victory for non-payment campaign!

From its foundation in 1991, Rifondazione Comunista (Prc) has been a point of reference and an expression of hope for the future, not just for the Italian working class but for workers throughout Europe.

West’s attempt to impose ‘solution’ risks provoking new conflict

At a summit in Berlin on 25 March, the European Union will celebrate its 50th birthday.

For democratically-organised, mass non-payment

Political force representing working class needed

Scottish banks make billions while 1 million live in poverty

Independent, working class policies needed to build on successes

Former ‘radical’ journalist’s diatribe against anti-war movement and Left

‘We Won’t Pay’ leads campaign for mass non-payment

House that hosted Lenin and Luxemburg bulldozed

Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi has narrowly won a confidence vote in the Italian Senate by 162 votes to 157.

Riding pillion behind Bush, Blair has embroiled Britain in disastrous wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Turmoil in Party of Communist Re-foundation

Is it some historical joke that the Parti Socialiste (PS) candidate for the presidency of the French Republic is called Royal?

Left lacks coherent alternative policies

"We don’t want a militarised city; we want to decide our own future".

New right wing government formed – What way forward for Left opposition?

The fact that the Assembly [local ‘power sharing government body] election is going ahead on 7 March does not mean that an Assembly will be set up first on 26 March.

The 300-year anniversary of the Scottish parliament voting itself out of existence by agreeing a union with England in January 1707 passed with very little formal celebration – save the minting of a commemorative £2 […]

Delegates at the Sinn Fein Ard Fheis in Dublin on 28 January voted by an overwhelming majority to back a leadership motion to support the police and judicial system in Northern Ireland.

On Tuesday, 16 January, five thousand people demonstrated and blocked the railway station at Vicenza in north-eastern Italy.

‘Red-Green’ government feels working people’s anger

Capitalism, both in Britain and worldwide, means increased poverty, unemployment and war for the peoples of the world. This is the unmistakeable message from the past year’s events.

The British and Irish governments ended the three days of all party negotiations in Scotland by announcing the "St Andrews Agreement".

CWI member, Lucy Redler, elected to National Committee