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 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 »

Thomas Kachel from Die Linke, the German Left Party, spoke recently at Stop the War’s ‘Ten Years On’ conference. He brought greetings from the party’s grass roots working group on peace and international affairs – the link between the party and the peace movement in Germany. “The greetings from my side are all the more […] Read more »

  Dave Renton explores the political writing of David Widgery David Widgery was a political writer. He devoted his life to communicating the ideas of Marxism, that society could be organised from below, and that workers could run the world. In his writing, he explained, he challenged, and he persuaded. His articles described the relationship […] Read more »

Last week Bulgaria’s Prime Minister, Boiko Borisov, resigned after several weeks of street protests against austerity, writes Gilbert Mercier Borisov announced his resignation in front of Bulgaria’s parliament after a night of violent clashes between protesters and police. More than 30 people had to be treated at hospitals due to police brutality. Ironically, Borisov justified […] Read more »

Keith Flett writes on the Dublin Lock-Out. He will be introducing a London conference on the Lock-Out which takes place at the  Institute of Historical Research  at midday on the 2nd March. Speakers include John Newsinger, Terry McCarthy, Terry Ward. Admission free The Dublin Lock-Out which started in August 1913 and ended in January 1914 […] Read more »

                                                        ‘An all too rare victory for the people of Haringey’ Keith Flett Haringey TUC, the North London Trades Council, has said that credit is due to Haringey Council leader Claire Kober and lead Councillor Alan Strickland after a Banksy stencil ‘Slave Labour’ removed from the wall of a Poundland store in Turnpike Lane […] Read more »

A report and a number of protesters’ own photos from across Spain: Saturday 23 February Today hundreds of thousands of people protested across Spain against their government’s austerity measures. They were opposing the harsh cuts they are facing but also the financial corruption of the political elite. Madrid, Barcelona, Seville and many other towns and […] Read more »

One of the leaders of France’s Front de Gauche, Jean-Luc Mélenchon recently visited London and gave a major speech at UCL  in which he discussed the ‘historic failure’ of social democracy and its inability to shape a European Union based on solidarity and social justice. His speech is available below, with English subtitles. Read more »

The way the left organises is a nonsense, argues Nick Wrack. This is an edited version of his speech at the February 9 ‘Socialist Organisation and Democracy’ event in Manchester The nature of this onslaught against ordinary working class people, in this country and beyond, is forcing families, individuals, groups of friends – whether it […] Read more »

Another look at the revolutionary left from Tom Walker  If there’s one thing that gets me about the revolutionary left, it’s this: in year five of this protracted capitalist crisis, as austerity strikes blow after blow, our methods, strategies and tactics clearly aren’t working – yet attempting to question and rethink them is often met […] Read more »