Europe

Several public postings about the activities of Golden Dawn cry out for a serious answer, says Radoslav Pavlovic. In fact what we are dealing with, really and truly, is typical fascism which shares common features with all such undertakings. Deliberate provocations in front of television cameras and direct actions against certain sectors of the populations […] Read more »

Historian and member of QUAC, Joseph Healy, writes about LGBT history month This month is LGBT History Month and one of those being commemorated this year is the gay scientist and national hero, Alan Turing, whose cracking of the enigma code paved the way for the defeat of Fascism in World War II. The holocaust […] Read more »

CAN’T PAY WON’T PAY! – SOLIDARITY WITH THE PEOPLE OF GREECE! Film by FourmanFilms Responding to a call for international solidarity, the Coalition of Resistance and the People’s Charter brought together a delegation of trade unionists and campaigners to visit Athens in March 2012. This film documents their trip. With interviews with striking steel workers, […] Read more »

Tonia Katerini of Syriza describes the social solidarity movement rising as Greeks struggle for survival The first problem is that in Greece now we have 25 per cent unemployment, with youth unemployment reaching 58 per cent and unemployment in areas that used to be highly industrialised sometimes reaching 70-80 per cent. Many industries either close […] Read more »

In the UK we don’t expect radical campaigns to be led by mortgage-holders, but Spanish austerity measures are leading to homelessness on a huge scale – with 220,000 evictions and 420,000 foreclosures on mortgages in the past 6 years. Decent housing for all has become one of the main demands of the anti-austerity movement and […] Read more »

Greek historian and activist, Eugene Michail, discusses the country’s social decay and looks for hope in alternatives. Greece is featuring less and less frequently in the international headlines. Even in the Eurogroup meetings, the Greek finance minister has happily noted that Greece is hardly discussed any more. In the recent Davos summit the Greek crisis […] Read more »

At the heart of this new political project is the realisation that it is necessary to build a European-wide movement. We need co-ordinated action with others fighting capitalism across the continent. We saw the beginning of this when millions took strike action across Europe on November 14th last year.   We were very pleased that there […] Read more »

The Greek government is once again using emergency measures to try and stop strike action in Greece, writes Andrew Burgin. Two weeks ago the government sent the riot police into the Athens Metro workers’ headquarters and threatened union leaders with imprisonment if they dared to continue their strike.  This time it is the turn of […] Read more »

Dur­ing the clos­ing months of 2012, Slov­e­nia saw a series of mass pop­u­lar protests. Here, the movements in Slovenia explain why they are protesting and the nature of the changes they are fighting for. Thirty thou­sand demon­strat­ors gathered on Novem­ber 17 for the first protest, organ­ised by trade uni­ons, stu­dents, and organ­isa­tions of retired people and […] Read more »

Billed as a remembrance rally, the event in central Athens on 2 February attracted a crowd of 30,000 to honour three “fallen heroes” of the party. Men dressed in military fatigues, baseball caps and swastikas lit torches and fired flares, chanting anti-immigration slogans. “We are winning the hearts and minds of the people, because we […] Read more »