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Les nations n'ont pas toujours existé. En Europe, la croissance du commerce a créé des unités avec une langue commune, une culture, des lois, un système fiscal et des communications, les États-nations qui se sont développés entre les 16e et 19e siècles.
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George Irvin is a professor at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, and author of Super rich: the rise of inequality in Britain and the United States.
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Neil Kinnock's applause for the capitalist market is part of an international trend. In many countries, social democracy has gone 'Thatcherite'.
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The bosses and bankers of Europe have been busily discussing a coordinated response to the debt crises that have shaken Ireland, Greece, Portugal and other countries within the “Eurozone.”
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O is a white-collar worker and a contact in France who spoke to us about the planned general strike there on Tuesday 12 October.
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What is happening right now?
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Workers in France continued their struggle against the government’s pension reforms, with a general strike on 23 September and a wave of demonstrations on 2 October.
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Under the slogan “No to austerity. Priority for jobs and growth” 100,000 workers marched through Brussels on 29 September.
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“United action, of the leading civilised countries at least, is one of the first conditions for the emancipation of the proletariat.”
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It is now common to meet working-class people who say they are sympathetic to, or will vote for the UK Independence Party. Clearly what they stand for has a resonance, including a resonance with former Labour supporters, alienated by New Labour's record in government. Anti-fascist activists need to arm themselves against this unpleasant far-right party.
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Since 22 October around two thousand students and university staff have been occupying several parts of the main university in Vienna, demanding an end to restrictive admissions practices, tuition fees, and the marketisation of education. Their action has swept across Austria, with seven universities now occupied around the country.
