Britain
Britain: Alienation and austerity behind London deaths
Fight for socialism!
Europe
Ireland North
Belfast ‘Good Friday Agreement’ – What has it delivered 20 years on?
The tenth of April 2018 marks the twentieth anniversary of the signing of the Good Friday Agreement (GFA) in Belfast. This was the formal ending of the ‘Troubles’, the euphemism for decades of sectarian upheaval […]
Britain
Social media – the potential and the limits
Facebook data protection scandal and algorithm changes show…
Catalonia
Catalonia: New Francoist coup – general strike now!
Free the political prisoners! For a Catalan Republic of the workers and youth!
France
France : Pressure mounts against the Macron government
Since the election of Emmanuel Macron, the president of the rich, and after the onslaught of the government against all sectors in society especially the public services – the railways (the SNCF), pensioners, young people, […]
Germany
Six months on from elections, new CDU/SPD coalition government formed
After the federal elections held on 24 September 2017, it took almost exactly half a year for the new government to be sworn in. This is completely unprecedented in German post-war history. On top of […]
Britain
Britain: Russia, spies and nerve agents
Jeremy Corbyn is broadly right and his pro-capitalist critics both within the Tory government and their Labour fifth column in the Parliamentary Labour Party are wrong and lying in their responses to the recent use […]
Catalonia
Catalonia: Volatile mix of oppression and anti-austerity anger
Review of ‘The Struggle for Catalonia – Rebel politics in Spain’ by Raphael Minder, Hurst & co publishers, 2017
Italy
Italian elections create huge political shake-up
The 4th March general election has caused the biggest shake-up of the Italian political landscape in over 20 years. Not since the ‘clean hands’ corruption scandal of the early ‘90s have the establishment parties been […]
Denmark
Right wing Danish government plans “twice as hard” punishment for poor
The Danish right-wing government wants crimes committed in poor housing areas, which the government contemptuously denotes as “ghettos”, to be punished twice as hard as elsewhere. The proposal is part of a battery of actions […]