The government’s proposed “First Job Contract” would make it possible to sack young people under 26 in the first two years they were in a job, without giving any reason. The mass student movement against this measure has the government worried.
Seafarers open new period in workers’ struggles
12 March 2006, byThe Greek seafarers’ strike was a hard fought battle against the neoliberal reform of the sea transport system.
Zero tolerance for reactionary forces
11 March 2006This resolution on the cartoons controversy was adopted by the Socialistisk Arbejderparti (Denmark) at its February national conference.
The Shadow of Martial Law
6 March 2006, byOn February 24, the 20th anniversary of the ouster of the brutal Marcos dictatorship, President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo put the Philippines under a state of national emergency, consigning the whole country once again to the direct rule of a police state.
LPP demonstrators greet Bush
5 March 2006, byThe Labour Party Pakistan demonstrated in Lahore and Karachi on March 2 against President Bush’s visit to the country. The protests were joined by the main radical social movements.
WSF’s Karachi leg later this month
3 March 2006The third leg of the polycentric World Social Forum will take place in Karachi from March 24-29. The six day event, a gathering of civil society organizations from around the world, will be held to reinforce the global movement against globalization, wars, colonization, denial of human rights and a host of other issues.
Socialist leaders arrested for ‘terrorist’ T-shirts
26 February 2006Leaders of the Danish Left Socialists have been arrested for selling T-shirts in support of the Armed Forces of the Revolution in Colombia (FARC) and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).
Together against the Bolkestein directive
9 February 2006On February 14th the proposed Bolkestein directive comes up in the European Parliament for its first reading. The European Trade Union Confederation is calling for a major demonstration in Strasbourg. European Sections of the Fourth International have issued the following statement.
British media campaign’s response
6 February 2006The Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom, a longstanding media reform organisation in Britain set up by the unions and the labour movement, explains its position on the Mohammed cartoons controversy.
Another Africa is Possible
30 January 2006, byThis year the World Social Forum is being held on three continents. Before the Forum in Caracas, the first big gathering of the global justice movement took place in Bamako, the capital of Mali, from 19th to 23rd January.
