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Twelve of the prisoners of Tamassint started an indefinite hunger strike on Monday 6 June.

After its election successes, and the dramatic appearance of George Galloway in front of a US senate committee, Respect is gearing up for new steps forward.

Over 62000 workers have been taking part in one of the most militant actions by a section of the working class in Pakistan. Workers across Pakistan have taken over the telephone offices.

The LCR Political Bureau calls for the Left forces of the ‘No’ campaign to continue the fight for a social and democratic Europe.

The big defeat suffered by premier Schroeder and his Social Democratic Party (SPD) in North Rhine-Westphalia on May 22nd 2005 has triggered off an earthquake in the German capital, Berlin.

The result of the regional elections in North Rhine ­ Westphalia last Sunday (May 22) was a heavy defeat for the Social Democratic Party (and their coalition-partner, the Green Party) in their stronghold, the region with the largest population, in which the SPD has been in government for 39 years.

Antonio Negri has said in the French newspaper Libération that French people should vote "yes" to the European Constitution in the referendum on 29 May.

Polls are showing that it’s too close to call in the French referendum on the proposed European constitution and the ’yes’ campaign, which unites most of the pro-capitalist mainstream, is panicking.

Roland Lew, China specialist and long-time collaborator of the Fourth International, has died.

The national Assembly, held in Rome on 23rd-24th April, of the militants who came together, during the Sixth Congress of the Party of Communist Refounding (PRC), around Motion 4, entitled “Another Rifondazione is possible” provoked wide interest on the Italian Left and was commented on in the media.