Europe

Workers Liberty Leeds Discuss the Euro Crisis

Submitted on 12 February, 2012 - 21:21

Date:

27 February, 2012 - 18:30 - 21:00

Location:

Tiled Hall Cafe- Leeds Art Gallery

Description:

Join our discussion of the what is heppening with the Euro Zone crisis and the on going upheavals in Greece. We will try to make sense of a crisis and cut through the jargon to understand why the whole basis of post war capitalism in europe is now in such trouble. We will also discuss whether the boycott of taxes, the general strikes and riots greece is on the verge of a workers revolution?

Les socialistes et l'Europe

Submitted on 13 December, 2011 - 18:31

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.

"Euro periphery" needs investment

Submitted on 20 July, 2011 - 08:46

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.

Social Democracy goes Thatcherite: Kinnock and the market

Submitted on 29 December, 2010 - 16:42

Author:

Ruth Cockroft

Click here to download pdf.

Neil Kinnock's applause for the capitalist market is part of an international trend. In many countries, social democracy has gone 'Thatcherite'.

Build European workers unity

Submitted on 2 December, 2010 - 13:48

Author:

Darren Bedford

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.”

France: Repeal the scandalous pensions law, let’s have a real fight!

Submitted on 10 October, 2010 - 21:44

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?

General strikes in France and Spain

Submitted on 7 October, 2010 - 08:52

Author:

Ira Berkovic

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.

European workers march

Submitted on 7 October, 2010 - 08:44

Author:

Tony Byrne

Under the slogan “No to austerity. Priority for jobs and growth” 100,000 workers marched through Brussels on 29 September.

RMT President on the role of the nation state

Submitted on 22 September, 2010 - 08:18

Author:

Tony Byrne

“United action, of the leading civilised countries at least, is one of the first conditions for the emancipation of the proletariat.”

UK Independence Party: sometimes quirky, always reactionary

Submitted on 18 February, 2010 - 21:56

Author:

Dan Katz

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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