International

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 »

The movement is battlefield, highlighting all the contradictions of Brazilian society. For more than a week Brazilian workers have taken to the streets. Yesterday, the country witnessed its biggest demonstrations since the fall of the dictatorship. But the situation on the ground has confounded many international commentators. Interviewing for Jacobin, Mark Bergfeld sheds light on new developments with […] 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 »

As the mainstream media remains quiet, the state violence in Turkey since the Gezi Park occupation is escalating. Kerem Nisancioglu sent this report from Istanbul on Saturday 15 June. Istanbul has been turned into a war zone. People have defiantly stood up to the brutality of state repression, seeking to reclaim Taksim Square and Gezi […] 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 »

The latest information from the Greece Solidarity Campaign, composed by Rachel Newton. Dear Friends,    Here is the monthly round up of news from the Greece Solidarity Campaign. The purpose of the GSC is to build practical and political solidarity with those resisting austerity in Greece. Organising meetings take place on the third Wednesday of every […] 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 »

As the Alter Summit meets in Athens, it shares its Peoples’ Manifesto, outlining urgent common priorities for a democratic, social, ecological and feminist Europe ROLL BACK AUSTERITY AND CLAIM REAL DEMOCRACY! Europe stands on the edge of a precipice, looking into the abyss. Austerity policies drive the peoples of Europe into poverty, undercut democracy and dismantle social […] Read more »