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  France

  FRANCE & EU ELECTIONS | Snap Election: Workers & Youth Unite Against the Right

  June 15, 2024 Gauche Révolutionnaire (Revolutionary Left, CWI France)

  The European elections were like a referendum against Macron. His party did not reach 15% of the vote, with 48.5% abstaining! The workers and youth who did vote severely sanctioned his policies of continuous attacks [...]

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  Europe

  EU ELECTIONS | Populist and Far-Right Parties Make Gains

  June 14, 2024 Niall Mulholland

  The June 6th-9th elections to the European parliament saw expected gains made by the populist and far right, on a 51% turnout of voters. The hard right is on course to hold almost a quarter [...]

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  Britain

  Britain: Back socialist and anti-war candidates – prepare for battles to come

  June 13, 2024 Editorial of the Socialist issue 1279

  With the UK general election less than a month away Labour Party leader, Keir Starmer, remains on course for Downing Street. “Things can maybe get a bit better”, was how the Economist magazine summed up [...]

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  Scotland

  North Sea Oil – Defend jobs & for a workers’ and socialist energy transition

  June 12, 2024 Lucas Grant , Aberdeen North Scottish TUSC candidate

  Unite, one of the UK’s largest trade unions with over 1.2 million members, is campaigning in six vital oil-dependent constituencies in Scotland during the general election. This comes as a reaction to a key policy [...]

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  Britain

  Student Gaza encampments and protests continue in Britain

  June 11, 2024 Socialist Students reporters

  Queen Mary: ‘We won’t pack up and give up!’ QMUL student, Tower Hamlets Socialist Party As we go into another week of the Queen Mary University student encampment for Palestine, East London, it’s becoming clear [...]