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AS STRIKES and demonstrations against public sector cuts sweep France, Germany, and Austria, the mainstream British press’s most prominent mention of this mass movement is in the gossip columns – apparently Madonna is upset because […]

"THIS is not a happy decision," said Israel’s right-wing prime minister Ariel Sharon last Sunday in Jerusalem. After a six-hour cabinet meeting which divided his Likud and far-right coalition allies, Sharon announced his reluctant acceptance […]

An attack on workers’ pensions by French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin has combined with other issues, particularly education decentralisation, to fuel a massive response by workers the length and breadth of France.

Socialist Party (CWI in Ireland) member Carmel Gates has been elected President of NIPSA, Northern Ireland’s largest trade union and the main public sector union. The election took place at NIPSA’s conference last week and […]

Almost two million Peruvian workers and peasants are on indefinite strike, demanding higher wages and lower taxes.

La quiebra económica, social y la incapacidad de la elite gobernante de solucionar los problemas más urgentes de la población, ha tenido como respuesta por parte de la clase trabajadora y los sectores mas oprimidos […]

Joe Higgins TD, Socialist Party stated (28 May 2003):

"The new wage deal is a sell-out without precedent; our union president, Ylva Thörn, should resign!"