Europe

One of the biggest components of opposition to the austerity measures in Spain has centred around housing, with the harsh mortgage laws having led to mass evictions. In a recent development in Andalucia, Izquierda Unida has been instrumental in passing a law to expropriate repossessed houses from the banks. Elsewhere Spanish workers are refusing to […] Read more »

  The recent decision of the Greek Prime Minister, Samaras, to close down the public television and radio stations, caused a large mobilization and resulted in a crisis of the governmental coalition, reports Stavros Panagiotidis. Since that day, representatives of trade unions, student unions, workers federations, party leaders, MPs, members of all left parties and […] Read more »

  A historical uprising has resulted in new practices, potentially very fruitful for closer investigation for progressives in both Europe and the Middle East, says Ekim Caglar.  Finally the progressives had the power to shake the hegemony and be in the centre of Turkish politics for a while. It all started with the trees in […] Read more »

Orsan Senalp reports on the massive June Days mobilisation in Turkey and highlights the music produced in solidarity with the protests, including some of the best known musical and video products of the June Days. Last Saturday (22 June) hundreds of  thousands gathered in Taksim Square to commemorate martyred comrades of the resistance. However while people […] Read more »

The Finnish Left Alliance held its party congress during June 8-9 in Tampere, Finland, reports Ruurik Holm. The congress approved a visionary and programmatic paper Red-Green Future, which outlines the central features of a red-green society and describes what kind of measures need to be taken for achieving it. For example, economic growth is not […] Read more »

Many of you may well attempt to keep up with events abroad, says freelance journalist Roland Wood. It might be because of family, friends and, for many socialists, a desire to express and give international solidarity. Yet it can be surprising, to some of us at least, how little is often known about how, and […] Read more »

James Youd reports on the European Assembly Against Austerity on the Sunday after the PAAA Sunday 23 June 2013: 12-5pm, Unite the Union Headquarters 128 Theobald’s Road, Holborn, London, WC1X 8TN Agenda: The resistance against austerity across Europe today Report from Alter-Summit The next steps for solidarity across Europe Speakers: Yannis Baskosos, member of SYRIZA […] Read more »

Greek journalists striking in solidarity with ERT have issued their own solidarity newspaper with the title “Unbound Opinion”. Myrto Bolota and Christos Giovanopoulos from the Greek Solidarity for All organisation  have sent a short film that documents the publishing process of this newspaper  The paper was published last weekend Saturday/Sunday 15-16 June 2013 as a reaction to the […] Read more »

by Petros Diveris Apparently the writing was on the wall. On Tuesday 11 June 2013 the Greek coalition government passed through the parliament a “special executive order” which allows ministers to shut down public sector companies, organisations and departments at will, as a matter of urgency. Greece is increasingly governed with the use of “special […] Read more »

2010 marked the big change in world economics, argues Sophie Katz. And equivalent changes in world politics will follow. We know this because what happened in 2010 was the tipping over of a trend that started in 1995 into a new global economic reality. In 2010 the ‘developed’ countries’ share of world trade dropped below […] Read more »