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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 »

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 »

Nick Wrack of the Independent Socialist Network at a meeting on Socialist Organisation held in Manchester at the start of February 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 »