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This statement was issued by OKDE-Spartakos on 29 August 2015, and published in English on their website 3 September.

This press statement was issued on Fraiday 21 August 2015 after the joint meeting of delegations from Popular Unity and Antarsya.

This statement was made by the Left Platform on the announcement of the calling of snap elections in Greece and the resignation of Tsipras as prime minister on 19 August 2015.

This brief report from our correspondent in Istanbul concludes our article Trouble in paradise: A cautionary tale for big capital in Turkey published in May.

Today at the SSP National Council, members voted in favour of the party becoming an affiliate of a new electoral alliance for the Scottish elections next year.

This statement was adopted at the closing rally of the 32nd youth camp in solidarity with the Fourth International on 1st August at Hoge Rielen in Belgium, by the delegations present from Belgium, Britain, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Spanish state, Switzerland as well as the guests from Brazil, Mexico and the USA.]

Six years after the failure of the Copenhagen negotiations against climate change, global corporate and political powers will meet again during the COP21. This 21st Conference of Parties will take place in Paris during the two first weeks of December 2015.

This statement was adopted at the closing rally of the 32nd youth camp in solidarity with the Fourth International on 1st August at Hoge Rielen in Belgium, by the delegations present from Belgium, Britain, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Spanish state, Switzerland as well as the guests
from Brazil, Mexico and the USA.

Islamabad’s development authority announced plans to remove katchi abadis, or low-income housing camps, across the city earlier this month and succeeded in obtaining a court judgement saying the settlements were illegal.

The government of SYRIZA-ANEL who voted the new memorandum, in the same line with previous governments, has proved that they cannot enforce the new austerity measures that destroyed the life of workers and people in Greece and complete the overturn of the massive NO of the working class, without resorting to the last form of social dominance: the state-police violence and repression.