International

  Earlier this month groups of protesters entered eight offices of INEM (National Institute of Employment, which operates Spain’s job centres) to highlight the plight of the 6 million unemployed and demand dignity for citizens. Not wishing to cause problems for unemployed people using the offices, the protesters kept disruption of the service to a […] Read more »

Yesterday,  Sunday, February 10th, New York labour and community organisations joined bus drivers in a protest march in a protest march over the Brooklyn Bridge culminating in a rally outside City Hall. They went to demand that Mayor Bloomberg back down on a decision to re-negotiate their contracts. The march and rally were held with […] Read more »

  Kate Hudson reports from the 36th Congress of the French Communist Party in Paris Confit duck legs for a thousand? No problem. The French Communist Party displayed its strengths this week in more ways than one. Its 36th Congress opened in the Docks d’Aubervilliers, a former industrial estate on the northern fringes of Paris […] Read more »

Leftist Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa has maintained a huge lead over his nearest opposition rival in the run-up to the February 17 elections, recent polls show. Correa’s popularity has remained above 50 percent throughout his six years in office, buoyed by his personal charisma as well as his government’s heavy spending on hospitals, roads and […] 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 »

In early January 2013, Doug Enaa Greene of the Boston Occupier interviewed Despina Lalaki on the current situation in Greece. Despina Lalaki  is a sociology doctoral candidate at The New School University and Lecturer at the A.S. Onassis Program in Hellenic Studies, New York University; and her writings have appeared on Al Jazeera. Lalaki is also involved […] 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 »

Portugal’s middle-class dwindles under debt Poverty in Portugal has risen to levels that were unimaginable a year ago, despite the bleak outlook forecast by the harsh measures imposed by the troika of creditors in exchange for the country’s financial bailout. Unable to pay their bills or even meet basic food needs, thousands of families are […] Read more »