Europe

Spain: floods unleash storm of protest

Catastrophic flooding in southern Spain has provoked anger among residents who say the government's inaction made the crisis worse.

Frieda Koppler  ·  04 December 2024

Ukraine: the prospects for an imperialist peace

Donald Trump has promised to end the war, but a great power partition will plant the depth charge of future wars.

Dave Stockton  ·  04 December 2024

Ukraine and the Stop the War Coalition

Opposing the imperialist motives of western support for Ukraine doesn't mean subordinating the right of Ukraine to resist invasion and annexation by Russia

Workers Power  ·  06 November 2024

Stop the war… with annexations

Stop the War’s perspective on the Ukraine war is a blend of the politics of the two major political tendencies which support it and make up the bulk of its members – Counterfire and the Communist Party of Britain (CPB).

George Banks  ·  02 October 2024

Northern Ireland: Loyalists join in anti-migrant pogroms

The outbreak of rioting in England gave renewed impetus to a mounting wave of violence in the six counties

Workers Power  ·  04 September 2024

Racist riots spread to Belfast

Northern Ireland's sectarian culture has proven fertile ground for the spread of racist bigotry towards Muslims

Bernie McAdam  ·  07 August 2024

Book review: The Carnation Revolution

A review of The Carnation Revolution: The Day Portugal's Dictatorship Fell by Alex Fernandes, Oneworld, 2024, 400 pages, £22.

Dara O'Cogaidhin  ·  14 July 2024

France: Where next for the Popular Front?

A surprise victory for the left-wing New Popular Front will intensify the political instability in the country.

KD Tait  ·  04 July 2024

French elections: No vote for the Popular Front

The new popular front is no barrier to the rise of the far right

Workers Power  ·  28 June 2024

Eyewitness report of Berlin Palestine Congress

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 […]

Martin Suchanek  ·  22 April 2024

Red star over Salzburg?

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

Workers Power  ·  21 April 2024

Far right surge in Portuguese elections

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

Workers Power  ·  21 April 2024

Austria: 1,500 school students strike against right-wing coalition government

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 […]

Workers Power  ·  25 January 2018

French youth raise barricades against racism

  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 […]

Workers Power  ·  06 November 2013

Ireland: Revolutionary Marxism must give new lead

A balance sheet of the last decade must be the first step in the production of a revolutionary programme that can break with nationalism, economism and sectarianism.

Workers Power  ·  29 November 1975

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