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At a massive rally in Lisbon today, the crowd sang Grandola, Vila Morena, the anthem of the country’s carnation revolution in the 1970s which overthrew the fascist regime. Grandola, Vila Morena tells of the solidarity amongst the people of Grandola, and was played at a concert in Lisbon on the 24 March 1974 by José […] Read more »

Twenty seven comrades came to the third Left Unity meeting, for the majority this was their first meeting. The meeting was introduced by Gioia Coppola, an communist from Italy who gave a report on the recent Italian elections. She was despondent about the prospects for the left and saw little positive in the vote for […] Read more »

A falling pound will lower the living standards of workers and the poor, says economist Michael Burke. The British pound has begun to fall once more on the international currency markets. It may be further helped on its way by the loss of the AAA credit rating. This will have important domestic economic consequences. The currency is […] Read more »

Kevin Ovenden looks at the rise of the right wing UKIP party in Britain which won a large vote in the Eastleigh by-election yesterday UKIP’s central slogan was “Stop open-door immigration” – lumping together the movement of EU nationals with asylum seekers and others through a deliberate sleight of hand into a single racist or […] Read more »

Polish socialist Szymon Martys reports on preparations for a general strike in Silesia The Silesia region in the South-West of Poland is preparing for a general strike. This will be the first such strike in Poland for 32 years. It is being organised by all the major trade unions – NSZZ “Solidarnosc” (“Solidarity”),  Ogólnopolskie Porozumienie Zwiazków Zawodowych […] Read more »

Left Unity will hold its third meeting this Thursday [Feb 28th] evening at 6.30pm. The meeting will focus on the two related themes of ‘Why is there no party to the left of Labour? and What sort of organisation do we want to see?’ Three comrades will lead off the discussion: Joana Ramiro from the […] Read more »

 Gilbert Mercier comments on French intervention in Mali In late December 2012, the  United Nations Security Council approved the dispatch of an “African-led intervention force” to Mali’s to help the army reconquer the north of the country from Tuareg separatists and their allied Islamist militants. But in recent days, it is not the African-led troops […] Read more »

  Haringey  TUC Secretary Keith Flett reports from the anti-cuts meeting in Tottenham this evening.   A successful meeting in Haringey tonight called for a united campaign against the cuts. The meeting was organised by the local trades union council and it sent a powerful message that uniting the fight against Government cuts can bring […] Read more »

Video preparing for the days of action during the EU spring summit in March 2013 Read more »

 Panagiotis Sotiris, Vice-president of the University of the Aegean Teachers’ Union, explores the problems of Higher Education in Greece    First of all, I would like to express my deepest feelings of solidarity to Egitim Sen regarding the recent wave of arrests. Governments all over the world want to get rid of trade union resistances […] Read more »