International

International women’s day statement from the Feminists’ network of the European Left On 8 March, the International Women’s Day 2013, women all over Europe are protesting against the downgrading of our lives, brought about by the capitalist crisis and the patriarchal conditions in our countries! We, the women and feminists of the European Left, are […] Read more »

The Alter Summit organising committee invites all European movements and organizations to build this important European summit in Athens in June.The Alter Summit aims to unite the peoples of the continent for a social, feminist, green and democratic Europe. The Alter Summit process was launched during the gathering of social movements in Florence last November, […] Read more »

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 »

Rafael Correa swept to power in 2007 on a ticket of helping the poor, reports Salman Shaheen. His election in Ecuador spelled a pink tide in Latin America as the once powerful parties of the conservatives and the liberals fell to new working class movements across the continent from Venezuela to Bolivia. This was not […] Read more »

Hugo Daillan-Drissi from the Front de Gauche reports for Left Unity on Mélenchon’s visit to Tunisia This week, Jean-Luc Mélenchon of the Front de Gauche visited Tunisia. The visit had been planned as a meeting with Chokri Belaïd, the leader of the Front Populaire, to discuss the political situation in Tunisia and to plan cooperation […] 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 »