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| Australia
Historic breakthrough for Australian leftThe Australian Left has had a long history of fragmentation. Six months ago, there was an extraordinary breakthrough when nine socialist organisations came together to form the Socialist Alliance. -> read article... |
| Greece
General strike resurrects workers movementIt was enough for the PASOK government to disclose its central ideas on reform of the pension system for the social and political climate to change radically. It was as if the real menace of seeing the value of pensions halved and the retirement age going from 60 to 65 or even higher, brusquely awakened a long slumbering and fatalistic Greek society. -> read article... |
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| Palestine/Israel
State, civil society and army in IsraelSince the creation of the state of Israel in 1948 the Jewish population has always been defined by military service. The Israeli citizen was ultimately there to serve the state in its war against the Arab world. This definition of citizenship marginalized both the Palestinian Arabs and the orthodox Jews, neither of who serve in the army. -> read article... |