Australia
Australia: Launch of rebel union, Unite, hits headlines
The launch in Melbourne at the week-end of ’Unite’ – a new union for fast food and retail workers – has received huge publicity in Australia.
Around the world
Brazil
Brazil: Workers fight back against poverty and state violence in the favellas
Eyewitness account of how capitalism brings tragedy and violence to Brazil’s poor
Germany
Germany: “Marx is Muss”
On the policies and practice of Linksruck (the German equivalent of the British Socialist Workers’ Party)
Germany
Germany: Five million watch German Trotskyist
"Struggle against unemployment and not against the unemployed"
Ireland North
Northern Ireland: Unite against sectarianism
A fifteen year old Catholic school student, Michael McIlveen, was brutally assaulted in a sectarian attack in Ballymena town, County Antrim, on 7 May. He made it home but then collapsed and was taken to […]
Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka: Elections and the menace of war
Sri Lanka has just come to the end of a period of elections.
Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan: Bakai shanty residents clash with police
Mass resistance stops homes demolition
Germany
Germany: WASG Left opposition meeting condemns national leadership attacks
First successful national meeting of the WASG Left
East Timor
East Timor: Timorese soldiers strike against low pay and brutality
Australian government despatches troops to ’secure’ Dili airport
Ireland Republic
Ireland: Afghan asylum seekers hunger strike ended by police
Government scapegoats refugees for poor welfare and lack of housing