Europe

An appeal from Portugal Europe is under violent attack from financial capital, represented by the Troika (IMF, ECB, EC) and by the successive governments that apply concerted policies with these entities, despising and destroying the people. We know that this offensive is set on breaking the peoples, rendering them slaves of debt and austerity. This […] Read more »

Below is a statement from the Greek secondary teachers’ union OLME, calling for solidarity and reporting on today’s situation:   THE MEMORANDA POLICY HURT PUBLIC EDUCATION NO TO CIVIL MOBILISATION ORDERS FOR SCHOOLTEACHERS Public education and teachers’ working conditions in Greece are suffering a strong blow once again by the government and the Troika. In […] Read more »

Murray Smith responds to the European dimension of the ‘flutter’ articles. He is a member of the anti-capitalist party déi Lenk in Luxembourg, and of the Executive Board of the Party of the European Left. Having followed with sympathy the emergence of Left Unity and the possibility of a new party of the Left being […] Read more »

In the first section of a two-part article, a senior figure from the labour and trade union movement joins the debate about Left Unity Left unity is the motherhood-and-apple-pie of socialists.  The unspoken (and sometimes spoken) assumption is that if only the left could crack the unity problem – the Rubik’s Cube of political intervention […] Read more »

The second section of a two-part article from a senior figure in the labour and trade union movement who joins the debate on Left Unity and urges those involved in Left Unity to consider that we might be wrong. Impact of the Crisis However, it could well be argued that the economic crisis changes the […] Read more »

Cyprus is currently experiencing dramatic moments that are expected to subvert the entire network of social relations and daily life of our people, says Yiannos Katsourides. The recent agreement of the Cypriot government with the Eurogroup overturns violently the main pillar of the capitalist structure; namely, the banking sector.  The effective resolution of the Popular […] Read more »

  Over the past two months Bulgaria, the most passive country in the traditionally belligerent Balkans, has been shaken by protests, says Mariya Ivancheva. Since the beginning of February Bulgarians in most big cities have been out in the streets, protesting against the increased electricity and heating bills. After a few nights of clashes between […] Read more »

We have received the following shocking report from Giorgos Karistinos on the shocking brutalities being carried out by the Greek police: I feel obliged to speak about the things I witnessed with my own eyes at the Police Station of Drapetsona, a close-to- the city- port neighborhood in Piraeus. I really have no idea of how I could […] Read more »

Groups linked to the Venezuelan right-wing opposition have unleashed a wave of violence across the country, following their loss at Sunday’s presidential elections and their refusal to accept the official results. The European Left Party has issued the following statement, calling for respect for the democratic outcome and the election of Nicolás Maduro. “The European Left […] Read more »

On Sunday, Spaniards in their thousands took to the streets to commemorate the declaration of the second Republic in April 1931: “From Cibeles to Sol [in Madrid], republican demonstrators flooded completely the Calle Alcalá, with flags, tricolours and songs against the monarchy and for socialism”. The demonstrations called for the establishment of a Third Republic. […] Read more »