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The Westminster Labour government has approved the takeover of Royal Mail by EP group whose majority shareholder is multi-billionaire Daniel Kretinsky, with a personal wealth said to be over £9 billion.  The Communication Workers Union […]

,The disgraceful decision by Keir Starmer’s UK Labour government to cut the £300 winter fuel allowance for pensioners, except for those on the state pension who are entitled to pension credits, provoked a storm of […]

In Goodbye to Russia, Sarah Rainsford covers her two decades based in Moscow as a reporter for the BBC as well as an earlier period in St Petersburg as a student and an English teacher. […]

As we go to press, the Social Democratic Party (PSD) announced their withdrawal from the discussions to form a new government coalition in Romania, citing the lack of willingness of the neoliberal Save Romania Union […]

A roof at the train station collapsed in the city of Novi Sad in Serbia on a busy November morning, killing 15 people. It collapsed two months after a ‘reconstruction’ job where tonnes of new […]

In November, a crisis at the Stilfontein mine in the North West province of South Africa, 145 km from Johannesburg, began making international headlines. Up to 4,000 ‘zama zama’ mineworkers had been purposefully trapped underground by […]

Following the Dáil [parliament of the Irish republic] elections of 29 November, government formation talks continue. While there is no doubt that the two main traditional ruling parties of Irish capitalism, Fianna Fáil and Fine […]

But independent workers’ organisation needed to struggle for socialist democracy Millions of Syrian people reacted with astonishment and joy at news that the Assad family’s five-decade long despotic regime had collapsed. President Bashir al-Assad, and […]