France
France: National assembly elections
The results of the June 2 first round of the national assembly elections are not simply a right wing success and do not give a full picture of French politics.
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Italy
Italy: Local election defeat for Berlusconi
The second round of local elections affecting 25% of Italy’s electorate confirmed a big electoral swing against the Berlusconi forces after a year of his belligerent right wing government. Even in the North, the center-left […]
Ireland North
Ireland North: Sectarian violence worsens in Belfast
Over the last few days, sectarian conflict has increased in various parts of Belfast. Both sides have blamed each other for starting the recent trouble. But what is the real cause of the outbreak of […]
Kashmir
Kashmir: Increased Indo-Pak shelling deepens crisis in Asia
"The latest is that yesterday, three youth, including children aged 16,12,and 8 were killed in the heaviest shelling in Nakyaal sector, where the prime minister of Pakistani Occupied Kashmir is holed up unable to move […]
Kashmir
Kashmir: Anti-war demo attacked by Mujahadeen fighters
An anti-war demonstration of hundreds organised by socialist and left activists in the Jammu and Kashmir National Awami Party (NAP) and National Student Federation (NSF) was attacked by members of the reactionary Islamic Hizb-Ul Mujahadeen […]
Britain
Britain: Royal Golden Jubilee
THIS WEEKEND’S Golden Jubilee celebrations survived a crisis – Buckingham Palace started burning down. After the public were evacuated and firefighters efficiently got the blaze under control, TV commentators asked the question on everyone’s lips: […]
Comment & Analysis
Review: Senoir Service, by Carlo Feltrinelli
Amid the recent upturn in class struggle in Italy, and the alleged reappearance of the Red Brigades armed campaign earlier this year, the recent publication on the life of Giangiacomo Feltrinelli could hardly be timelier. […]
Comment & Analysis
Review: Islam – a thousand years of faith and power, by Jonathan Bloom and Sheila Blair
ISLAM IS the fastest growing religion in the US and rivals Christianity worldwide: "’They’ are now ’us’," is how Jonathan Bloom and Sheila Blair put it. They call for a greater understanding of Islam in […]
Comment & Analysis
Review: The Silent Takeover – Global Capitalism and the Death of Democracy by Noreena Hertz
“HOW COULD IT be”, ponders Noreena Hertz in the opening pages, “that ten years after landing in Leningrad to set up Russia’s first stock exchange – a travelling saleswoman with capitalism in my briefcase – […]
Afghanistan
Afghanistan: Aftermath of war
Some ’lasting good’ will come out of the war against Afghanistan, promised Tony Blair last year. But promises given by capitalist politicians are usually written in sand, especially the kind made in wartime.