Italy
Italy: Morandi bridge collapse – your profits are our dead
Capitalist thirst for profits responsible
Europe
Britain
Britain: Jeremy Corbyn comes under renewed attack from Labour’s right
There is no rest for the wicked. British Prime Minister Theresa May had to cut short her Italian holiday to visit the French president, Emmanuel Macron, at his Mediterranean castle retreat.
Catalonia
500-strong Barcelona rally for a ‘socialist Catalan republic’
Over 500 people attended the international rally organised by Esquerra Revolucionaria (CWI in Catalonia), on 17 July, in defence of a Catalan Republic of workers and youth.
Portugal
Portuguese dockers strike against union busting
Portuguese dockers took strike action across all ports on Friday 27 July. They are fighting against widespread persecution and union busting in Portuguese ports, especially in Leixões and Caniçal (Madeira), where workers are being threatened […]
Britain
Britain: The case for socialist nationalisation
The Alternative Models of Ownership report, launched in June 2017, days after the general election, was commissioned by shadow chancellor John McDonnell. Although it is not, in itself, official Labour Party policy, many of the […]
Britain
Brexit: Tory government crisis deepens
As the Brexit white paper staggered its way through the House of Commons, the crisis in the Tory party has just deepened and deepened.
Finland
Thousands oppose Trump and Putin in Helsinki
Thousands of people in Finland joined over a dozen demonstrations with multiple perspectives on the meeting between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin which took place in Helsinki on 16 July. The biggest of these was […]
Britain
250,000-strong human tide sweeps London against visit of Trump
A human tide swept central London on 13 July in a historic mobilisation against the racist, sexist billionaire president of the US, Donald Trump, who was visiting the UK. It is estimated that more than […]
Poland
Poland: Stop the state sponsored anti-communist and anti-left witch hunt
“First they came for the communists…” In May word spread in Poland of a police “visit” to an academic conference “Karl Marx 2018” organized at the Szczecin University holiday centre in the village of Pobierowo. […]
Britain
Britain: Tories in crisis – Act now to get them out!
Theresa May is clinging to power by a thread. For the first time since 1982 two cabinet ministers have resigned within 24 hours, as the Brexit civil war has ignited into a full scale conflict. […]