Anticapitalist and working class forces around the world must also protest this repression and demand the immediate withdrawal of the army and the police, the release of the political prisoners and the handing over of the murderers to popular justice. Read more...

The Danish working class have started to seriously resist the policy of cuts proposed by the new conservative government. Swedish workers and youth, experiencing the return of an openly bourgeois government for the first time in 12 years, have a lot to learn from its Danish brothers and sisters. The mass demonstrations in 10 Danish cities on the 3rd of October, the opening day of Folketinget (the Danish parliament), was a show of force that was accompanied by advanced methods of struggle. Read more...

Workers in Australia will be coming out in their hundreds of thousands on 28 June to fight against anti-union laws that are crippling effective trade unionism and giving bosses the legal right to intimidate workers. Read more...

While Hugo Chavez was touring Europe, workers in Venezuela were preparing for the second conference of the National Workers Union (UNT). Read more...

According to the Confederation Generale du Travail (CGT) over 3.1 million people demonstrated in France on April 4th in the fifth of a series of joint days of action by youth and workers which have thrown France into the biggest political crisis in over a decade. In Paris 700,000 joined the march, 250,000 in Marseille, 120,000 in Bordeaux, 90,000 in Toulouse, and 75,000 in Nantes. “On n’est pas fatigués !”-We’re not tired! chanted the young demonstrators. Read more...

Last Tuesday, the anti-CPE movement rocked the government with a massive show of strength all over the country. Now we must build on this. Now we can smash not only the CPE but the CNE that prepared the way for it. Now we can throw out privatisation and cuts. Now we can put an end to the whole neo-liberal offensive and the bosses’ Lisbon Agenda. Read more...

Yesterday, Tuesday 28th, three million people took to the streets in a massive show of strength against de Villepin and the government’s attempt to bring in the CPE. LFI members where there from Britain to experience the movement first hand, alongside our French comrades. Read more...

In scenes reminiscent of May 1968, albeit on a smaller scale, CRS riot police stormed the Sorbonne in Paris at four o’clock on Saturday morning, to drive out 200 students and others who had been occupying the building for four days. They used tear gas grenades, and batons to clear the main building. At least two people were injured and eleven arrests made. Read more...