Spain
Spanish state: Over 1 million students on strike against sexism and for inclusive sex education
1.5 million students join strike and 100,000 take to the streets!
Europe
Scotland
Scotland: Stop the closure of Dundee Michelin factory
Dundee workers have been devastated and angered by the announcement from French multinational Michelin that they will shut their Dundee factory by 2020. Michelin is one of the biggest private sector employers in the city. […]
Britain
Britain: PCS civil service union’s Left Unity election
PCS civil service union Assistant General Secretary (AGS) Chris Baugh, elected three times since 2004, has won at least eight nomination meetings in his campaign to be the Left Unity AGS candidate for a fourth […]
Britain
Britain: ‘People’s vote’ should be a general election
On 20 October hundreds of thousands marched through the streets of London demanding a ‘peoples’ vote’ on Brexit. The motivations of those who marched were varied. Some were marching to show their internationalism and opposition […]
Czech Republic
Czech workers flex industrial muscle as economy grows
In April 2018, the number of available jobs was for the first time more than the number of (officially) unemployed people in the Czech Republic. Unemployment, according to September figures, stands below one quarter of […]
Scotland
Scotland: Glasgow’s equal pay uprising shows power of working class
Around 8,500 Glasgow working class women made history on 23-24th October, when they took industrial action. As the BBC news commented, it was the “one of the biggest ever strikes in the UK on the […]
Finland
Finland: Political strikes against government attacks
On Monday, October 22, the largest trade union in Finland – JHL – launched a two-day political strike against the right-wing government’s proposal to make it easier to sack workers in companies with 10 or […]
Britain
Britain: Corbynism three years on
The Tory government hangs by a thread. Its disastrous Brexit policy threatens to blow it apart and widespread desperation and anger at seemingly endless austerity could erupt at any moment. There’s still time, argues PETER […]
Germany
Bavarian elections and huge #unteilbar anti-racist demonstration – a weekend of German history
Much of the German media is understandably discussing the “historical event” that took place last weekend – last Sunday’s regional elections in Bavaria. The decline of both the CSU (Bavarian counterpart of Merkel’s Christian-Democrat CDU) […]
Britain
Britain: Corbyn must fight for a workers’ Brexit
If a variant of British Prime Minister Theresa May’s Chequers proposal eventually becomes a Brexit deal, it will mean Britain remaining subject to much of the EU’s austerity-promoting and privatising neoliberalism. On the other hand, […]