The main headline story resulting from the recent Kosovan Parliamentary elections was that less than 1% of the Ethnic partition threatened 80,000 ethnic-Serbs living in Kosovo (called Kosova by ethnic Albanians) cast their votes.
Socialists call for workers and youth protests
Workers’ movement must organise against racism and cuts
The management of the Austrian based multinational Neusiedler in Ruzomberok, a town in central Slovakia, has decided to hand out redundancy notices to all workers who were involved in organising a new trade union.
"In this week’s BN-De Stem [newspaper] there was an article about a new phenomenon in Breda: the soup kitchen.
Mass discontent behind Commission crisis
"This was a sell out!"
The new £430 million Scottish parliament building in Edinburgh was opened by the Queen in a blaze of establishment pomp and ceremony recently.
Top down ‘solutions’ provoke instability
Socialism is not merely an option – we face socialism or nothing.
back to article esf anti-war rally Joe Higgins and Peter Taaffe speaking at the cwi rally pictures: Molly Cooper
Strike needs to spread not end
Solidarity appeal
The swift angry and determined answer of the workers at Opel’s Ruhr area factory in Bochum to General Motor’s announcement of 12,000 redundancies throughout Europe has seized the headlines in Germany. They immediately went on […]
Solidarity with striking Opel workers in Germany
Workers must fight attacks on living standards
THE ESF is an off-shoot of the World Social Forum, (WSF) which following its first event in Porto Allegre, Brazil in 2001, drew up a description of the WSF as being: "an open meeting place […]
Although it was pouring with rain, October 9th saw more than 500 antifascists (mainly youth) marched through Linz, an industrial city of over 200,000 people in Austria.
Forty years fighting for socialism
Protest against action by Cinram bosses
Tony Blair has announced that he will go on to serve out a third term as prime minister.
Massive turnout of trade union movement in Amsterdam
Unite against the jobs massacre
TONY BLAIR may claim he is not the ’wobbling’ kind. But the long shadow of the Iraq occupation, the hostage crisis and Labour’s majority being reduced to less than 30 seats at a general election […]
Let’s mobilise for 2 October mass demonstration!
Socialist Alternative, the German section of the cwi, scored a great victory in Sunday’s local elections in North Rhine Westphalia, winning two more councillors after initiating and heading two left electoral lists against social cuts […]
Workers say -’we won’t pay the price’
Interview with general secretary of civil service union
The beginning of a hot autumn
Locked-out workers "completely win everything they had stood out for"
Protests continue
Economic storms and class battles on the agenda
The horrific massacre of children, parents and teachers at High School No1 in Beslan, North Ossetia, reached a new level of barbarity.
THE HOSTAGE takers who seized 1,200 children, parents and teachers in Beslan reached a new level of barbarism.
Anger and revulsion at huge loss of life
The bloody end to the school hostage crisis in Beslan, North Ossetia, angered, sickened and shocked people around the world.
Today 79% of east Germans and 51% of west Germans think that Socialism is a "good idea" that was "only badly implemented" in the former Soviet Union and eastern Europe. That is the judgement after […]
Putin fails to bring ‘peace and security’ to Chechens or Russians
Eye witness accounts from Rostock and Leipzig
“Hot autumn” for German government starts early as tens of thousands take to the streets in yet another wave of protest against impoverishment programme Agenda 2010
The race for the leadership of the Scottish National Party took a dramatic twist recently when on the day nominations closed former SNP leader Alex Salmond announced he was standing for party convener.
Rotterdam campaign receives far right and police attention
1,500 school students and apprentices take part in a city wide youth strike in Kassel, Hessen, to demonstrate against social cuts.
Key political issues discussed and debated
Does radical rhetoric of some of the trade union leaders against the government’s cuts policy mark a turning point for the struggle against Agenda 2010?
Neo-liberals victory means attacks on working people
National meeting of workers called to plan actions against cuts
Independent class position needed
June 13 saw many elections in Germany: European elections (which are the only nationwide elections between two Federal general elections); state parliament elections in Thuringia and local elections in 6 of the 16 German federal […]
Respect – the Unity Coalition was formed by George Galloway MP and the Socialist Workers’ Party (SWP) at the beginning of the year. It stood for the first time on June 10.
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