Satement issued by five important union federations about IMF/World Bank programmes for Iraq after a meeting in Amman, Jordan, on 16 January.
Transit union shuts down New York
4 January 2006, byWhat do you get when you mix together 35,000 angry workers, an arrogant management, a union leadership under pressure from its membership, a decades-long drive to shrink the public sector, a racial divide between bosses and workers, and miscalculations? In December 2005, you got a transit strike in New York City.
Declaration of European Anti-Capitalist Left meeting
3 January 2006, byThe European Anti-Capitalist Left conference met in London on the 26th and 27th November 2005. It decided to step up its own activity and visibility, most notably by proposing to host a broad seminar in Paris in May 2006 as a forum for discussion for the European radical left.
Election outcome means political upheaval
20 December 2005, byNovember’s presidential election resulted in victory for hardline Sinhala chauvinist Mahinda Rajapakse, who primised to ’review’ the peace process with the Tamil Tiger rebels. Opposition from the Tamils themselves and Rajapakse’s reliance of chauvinist ultras means major upheval in the months to come.
Verso Winter Book Sale
9 December 2005Verso, the leading English language publisher of radical books, is running a stock-clearance booksale, featuring many books of exceptional interest to Marxists at knock-down prices.
LPP organises 5000 strong anti-WTO rally
7 December 2005, byThousands of Labour Party Pakistan activists demonstrated today (Tuesday 6 December) in Lahore against the imperialist onslaught of privatization and the WTO.
In Defence of Democracy
5 December 2005Intellectuals and personalities worldwide call for defence of Venezuelan democracy, as Washington-inspired opposition boycott of December 4 National Assembly elections leads to pro-Chavez walkover.
Defend Iranian Workers
1 December 2005The courts of the government of Iran have sentenced a number of prominent labour movement activists to several years in prison, to be followed for some of them with exile. Their only “crime” is the attempt to hold a celebration event on May Day 2004.
Mandel Symposium success
22 November 2005Around 250 people attended a colloquium in Brussels on 19 November to discuss the life and ideas of Ernest Mandel, who died ten years ago this year.
State of emergency: the choice of repression
14 November 2005, byThe state of emergency is the armed wing of liberalism...It would be unthinkable for part of the Left to persist in its accommodation with the government and not vote against the prorogation of the state of emergency.
