By Martin Suchanek In a serious attack on freedom of expression and assembly, on 12 April the Berlin police shut down and dispersed the Palestine Congress, a democratically and legally organised meeting. All this was an attempt to criminalise criticism of the state of Israel and its racist foundations, indeed any advocacy of the democratic […]

The Austrian Communist Party's brand of leftwing municipalism is delivering electoral success

Social democrats punished as far right surges in latest right shift in Europe

By REVOLUTION – International Communist Youth Organisation ON 13 JANUARY tens of thousands of people demonstrated in Vienna against the new Austrian government, formed by the conservative Austrian Peoples Party (ÖVP) and the far-right Freedom Party (FPÖ). The  “Black-Blue” coalition, so-called from the parties’ colours, is planning the worst attacks on the working class and […]

  By KD Tait In October, thousands of French school and college students blockaded schools and took to the streets to protest the deportation of 15-year-old student Léonarda Dibrani.   Dibrani, a young Roma woman, was dragged off her school bus and deported to Kosovo on 9 October. One week later, Armenian student Khatchik Kachatryan […]