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Spain: after Socialist Party victory - What Now?

With a turnout of more than 75 percent, one of the highest since 1982, the Spanish elections on April 28 saw the Partido Socialista Obrero Español PSOE – Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party, as the main Read more...

Ukraine: A land staring into the abyss

President Petro Poroshenko lost Ukraine's run-off election on 22 April, 2019, by a mile. Read more...

The European Elections and the Crisis of the EU

Two decades after the meeting of its heads of state and government in Lisbon in March 2000, the European Union has become the "weakest link" among the great powers in the imperialist world order. Read more...

The Macedonian Referendum and its background

At the NATO security conference in Munich, the leaders of the Greek and newly renamed North- Macedonian governments were honoured for “setting aside” long standing differences over the name of the rep Read more...

Berlin Housing: Expropriation - yes of course! Compensation - no thanks!

The Berlin initiative "Expropriate Deutsche Wohnen (German Homes) & Co." has hit the city like a bomb. Read more...

Fridays for Future: System change - not climate change!

Worldwide, hundreds of thousands of students are striking and demonstrating, Friday after Friday, against the threatening, catastrophic consequences of climate change. Read more...

Britain: Brexit – the Final Act Begins?

On Saturday, March 23, over a million people packed the streets and squares of central London in what could well have been the biggest demonstration in British history. Read more...

Brexit is breaking Britain's parties

The impossibility of reconciling the interests of the dominant sectors of British capitalism with the vote to leave the EU has brought both the country’s main political parties to the brink of an exis Read more...

Britain: After the Gang of Seven – now for the rest

We welcome, without a shred of regret, the resignation of the seven former Labour MPs, who will be spending the weeks and months ahead applying the finishing touches to their political obituaries. Read more...

France: On tactics towards the Gilets Jaunes

The Gilets Jaunes (yellow vests) are spreading around Europe and gaining support and sympathy from a wide variety of political forces, from the extreme right to the radical left. Read more...

Britain: No Brexit, No compromise

The defeat of Jeremy Corbyn’s motion of no confidence was a desperate act of self-defence by the hypocrites on the Tory backbenches who had only just failed to overthrow their leader themselves, and h Read more...

Call a general strike to repeal Hungary’s slave law

On 5 January, tens of thousands of workers and students flooded into Budapest’s Heroes Square to demand President Victor Orban’s Fidesz party is “swept from power”. Read more...

2019 - the Year of Brexit?

The New Year will be a year of major political conflict in Britain – one that could spill out onto the streets. Read more...

UK: A new front in the fight against climate change

“WE WILL not be led quietly to annihilation by the elites and government… it is not only our right, but our moral duty to bypass the government’s inaction and flagrant dereliction of duty, and to rebe Read more...

Fifty years of the struggle against the Orange state

Fifty years ago, on October 5, 1968, a peaceful civil rights march was savagely beaten off the streets of Derry by the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC). Read more...

France: yellow vests but no red flag

We are witnessing another of France’s powerful social movements. This time it is directed against the increasingly unpopular President Emmanuel Macron and his supposed eco-tax on petroleum products. Read more...

100 Years since Germany's November Revolution

Part II The Road to Defeat

The Role of the USPD Read more...

Labour: Kick out May with mass mobilisations - but come clean on Brexit!

Theresa May faces the complete shipwreck of her Brexit negotiations and the 585 page draft Withdrawal Agreement she brought back from Brussels. Read more...

100 Years since Germany's November Revolution

Part 1: War and Revolution Read more...

France: The working class strikes back

With a successful day of action on October 9, the major trade unions, CGT, FO, Solidaires, FSU, which organise the most combative sectors of the French working class, have shown that they are still a Read more...

Germany: Quarter of a million march against racism

Saturday's "Indivisible" demonstrations in Berlin, Frankfurt and Karlsruhe brought hundreds of thousands out against racism and in solidarity with the refugees and immigrants who are its targets. Read more...

One step forwards, two steps back

Labour’s annual conference was widely judged a success. Read more...

Britain: A Workers' Answer to Brexit

THE starting point for any socialist looking to determine their stance on Brexit is to ascertain whether it is in the interests of the working class. Read more...

Britain: An Open Letter to Labour Party Conference delegates

This year's conference is the third under Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership but much of the legacy of the Blair and Brown years is still with us. Read more...

Britain: Labour NEC capitulates to Zionist smear campaign

The Labour Party NEC’s decision to adopt all 11 unofficial examples attached to the IHRA definition of antisemitism represents a serious retreat from solidarity with the Palestinians and a victory for Read more...

Russia: Protests against pension cuts show potential for resistance

In June, the Russian government announced a far-reaching pension "reform". The main change is to raise the retirement age for women from 55 to 63 and for men from 60 to 65. Read more...

Swedish election: Mobilise against the right!

Sweden goes to the polls on Sunday, September 9, and surveys suggest that the result will be a big success for the rightwing forces and a corresponding defeat for the labour movement, with demoralisat Read more...

Germany: Right-wing marches in Chemnitz - how can they be stopped?

About 5000 right-wingers rampaged through Chemnitz on Monday, August 27. Read more...

The split in the European Left Party: Between reformism and populism

Clashes in the European Left Party, ELP, led to a split at the beginning of July. Read more...

Germany: Nazis march in Berlin - a serious warning

On Saturday, August 17, German fascists were able to hold a march in Berlin in memory of Hitler's deputy, Rudolf Hess. Read more...

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