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The Ministry of Finance is preparing an austerity package to abolish some tax exemptions. If the change also applies to union dues, it could have far-reaching negative consequences.
Finance Minister Zbyněk Stanjura (ODS) wants to abolish tax exemptions, which he says are inherently (...)
Russian activist Artem Temirov writes on what he sees as a concerning trend within the Hellenic left to fall into a knee-jerk “anti-imperialism” that is in fact anything but.
[(Author’s note: A significant part of the Greek Left for a very long time has been plagued by narrow anti-Americanism (...)
The following could be a dark humor joke, but it is a very real story and, above all, emblematic of this neoliberal and dilapidated Greece of the first half of the 21st century.
Only a few hours before the terrible rail disaster of 28 February, the president of the train drivers’ union Kostas (...)
What the war has revealed about the nature of Ukrainian and Russian societies
Looking back on the year that has passed since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, we would like to take a break from the military and/or geopolitical considerations, the usual analyses devoted to this war, and focus (...)
Following the Russian invasion of Ukraine last February, it soon became clear that there was a gulf between Catalonia’s peace movement, motor-force of the historic 2003 Barcelona demonstration of 1.3 million against the US-led invasion of Iraq, and the country’s 26,000-strong Ukrainian community. (...)
We published a post covering the Irish left’s response to Russia’s imperialist invasion of Ukraine on February 25.
We included references to an Irish Times letter signed by 12 Oireachtas public representatives ((TD’s and Senators) – which prompted several critical replies. One of the original (...)
Dave Kellaway reports on the election of Elly Schlein to leader of the PD in Italy.
Just like Jeremy Corbyn in 2015, even Elly Schlein could scarcely believe it. All the polls and insiders had suggested she would lose by at least ten percentage points or more. She lost the members’ vote by 53% (...)
On the first anniversary of Vladimir Putin’s “Special Military Operation” in Ukraine, February 24 2023, 12 elected left-wing Oireachtas members had a letter published in one of Ireland’s main daily papers, the Irish Times. A number of correspondents rejected the contents of this letter.
On the (...)
In the industrial zone “Triangle” in the far west of Bohemia, a strike took place at the end of January and the beginning of February. Workers at the Nexen Tire factory, which is owned by a South Korean company and produces tyres for global car brands, were reacting to the long-term stagnation of (...)
A year after the Socialist Party (SP) won an absolute majority in the Portuguese parliament, the political situation has been altered by the popular struggle. This struggle is already splitting up into multiple battles. From the struggles of teachers, doctors, nurses, the judiciary and civil (...)
In an environment of unprecedented inflation and falling real wages, Czech unions won one important victory.
Czech trade unionists scored one success this February in the overall Czech context. After a week-long strike, trade unionists from the KOVO trade union and the management of the South (...)
“Justifying yourself in the neoliberal policy of Zelenski or in the fascist battalion of Azov for not supporting the attacked nation is just another element of this hypocritical or blind neutrality”
I am one of the members of the commission preparing the demonstration for peace and in (...)
Dave Kellaway reports from Italy on post-fascist Georgia Meloni first hundred days as Prime Minister and looks at the state of the opposition.
Just before Christmas, TV news and social media showed scenes never seen in Milan since the war. You saw lines of people waiting in line for food (...)
Earnings at Amazon are not ‘competitive’, like the company says. Two increases in the minimum hourly wage are planned this year in Poland and if Amazon’s wages do not rise, the minimum wage will practically catch up with them. And we are talking about one of the largest and richest companies in (...)
The ‘NEVER AGAIN’ Association published a REPORT on hate speech, antisemitic and anti-Ukrainian conspiracy theories propagated on the far-right Media Narodowe (National Media) YouTube channel, which receives subsidies from the Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage.
The National Media (...)
Elections is Poland are slowly approaching and, again, the national-conservative populists with some social leaning will face the neoliberal opposition (with moderate social-democrats trying to mark their presence too). The previous confrontations were lost by the neoliberals, whose focus on (...)
’Stop Arms Trade’ asked me to sign the call ’[Stop the war by negotiation->https://stopwapenhandel.org/handtekeningen’. Below I explain why I am not doing so, and why I think this and other calls for ’negotiations’ or even a ’ceasefire’ should not be supported.
That the war in Ukraine is horrific, (...)
Recent limitations to the freedom of movement imposed to contain the spread of COVID-19, led farmers’ organisations (as well as other employers) across Europe to sound the alarm, lamenting the sudden dearth of workers needed for highly time-sensitive harvesting. These restrictions cut across (...)
The subject of the article is an analysis of the attitude of selected radical left movements in the world towards the war in Ukraine. The aim of the article is to identify and systematize the attitudes of the radical left organizations to the war in Ukraine. The author assumed that these (...)
Twenty years ago, there was a big strike in Slovakia. In response to austerity measures that would have seen dozens of train services and many jobs axed, the rail unions decided to stop work. At the end of January 2003, they went on strike, bringing passenger and freight services to a halt on (...)
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