Europe
Class, Party and Leadership: Lessons from the Spanish Revolution
Eighty years after the Spanish Civil War, we review one of its main lessons: the preparatory task of building revolutionary parties and leaderships in non-revolutionary periods.
Santiago Lupe
October 2, 2017337 Reported Wounded by Police Violence on the Day of the Referendum in Catalonia
Polls opened at 5AM on Sunday, October 1 in Spain for the referendum on the question of Catalonia’s independence.
Amelia Robles
October 1, 2017How Did the Extreme Right Get 13 Percent in the German Elections?
Image: Now the End Begins On Sunday, Germany’s two main parties suffered a terrible defeat. Angela Merkel’s conservative CDU got just 33 percent, while the social democratic SPD sunk to 20.5 percent – the worst results for both parties since 1945. These two parties have held up West Germany’s capitalist regime since its founding, sharing […]
Nathaniel Flakin
September 28, 2017Repression in Catalonia Before the Referendum
A wave of repression under orders of the Spanish government in Madrid attempted to halt the referendum on October 1.
Amelia Robles
September 25, 2017The Established Parties Can’t Stop the Shift to the Right
This Sunday, 61.5 million people in Germany are called on to elect a new parliament. A greater share of the population than ever before, however, lacks the basic democratic right to vote for the Bundestag as Germany's "blood and soil" citizenship laws even exclude people who grew up in the country. In the capital alone, almost half a million adults are denied the right to vote.
Nathaniel Flakin
September 23, 2017French President Passes Labor Reform Despite Wide Opposition
Today the French President signed executive orders that will profoundly affect the life of millions of workers. Without blinking an eye, Emmanuel Macron is profoundly transforming labor legislation for the benefit of the very few members of his class.
Marianne Madoré
September 22, 2017German Government Shuts Down Indymedia
Despite the claims of freedom of speech, Germany's Federal Ministry of the Interior prohibited the left-wing news platform Indymedia Linksunten.
Nathaniel Flakin
September 15, 2017Hundreds of Thousands Join General Strike Against Macron’s Labor Reform
The French working class organizes the first general strike against President Macron.
Amelia Robles
September 14, 2017British Mcdonald’s Workers Go on Strike
On Monday, September 4th, British McDonald's workers are set to strike for the first time in their history. The staff at two restaurants of the US fast-food giant are issuing a call for industrial action over better pay and more secure working hours.
Alejandra Ríos
September 3, 2017Police Raid in Munich: Special Forces Burst into Apartment Because of a Ypg-Flag on Private Facebook Page
This morning at 6 AM, ten heavily armed special forces of German police executed a search warrant in Munich in an investigation over a picture of a flag of the Kurdish militia YPG posted on a private Facebook profile. During the raid the behavior of police was both sexist and racist.
Baran Serhad
August 17, 2017