Europe
Euro zone negotiates Greek bailout amid rising popular opposition
By Christoph Dreier and Alex Lantier, February 21, 2012
A euro zone finance ministers’ meeting strained to reach an agreement on a new “bailout” for Greece, based on deeply unpopular austerity measures.
Germany: Verdi prepares to agree wage cut for public transport workers
By Franz Schobert and Carola Kleinert, February 21, 2012
The protest strike called by the unions was aimed primarily at blowing off steam and exhausting transport workers’ justified willingness to fight.
PSA auto workers protest threat to close Aulnay, France plant
By our reporters, February 21, 2012
Workers marched Saturday in a protest called by unions at the PSA plant in the east Paris suburb of Aulnay-sous-Bois against the planned closure of the site in 2014.
Hundreds of thousands protest new Spanish labour legislation
By Alejandro López, February 21, 2012
Hundreds of thousands of workers demonstrated in 57 Spanish cities on Sunday against the latest labour reform passed by the right wing Popular Party.
UK government to extend workfare for young unemployed
By Eileen Rose, February 21, 2012
Thousands of businesses are to receive a letter from Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg inviting them to sign up to the Youth Contract, which pays employers but not young workers.
Greek “left” pushes to join the government
By Christoph Dreier, February 20, 2012
In the socially explosive situation in Greece today a government of the “left” would merely strive to break the workers’ resistance and prepare authoritarian forms of rule.
UK pensions fight sabotaged as just three unions urge one-day strike
By Tony Robson, February 20, 2012
Just three public sector unions have agreed to hold a consultative ballot on national strike on March 28.
UK Supreme Court rejects appeal over Brent library closures
By Daniel O’Flynn, February 20, 2012
The Supreme Court has refused campaigners any further appeal against the closure of six libraries in the northwest London Borough of Brent.
The CGT comes out for bourgeois “left” in French presidential elections
By Francis Dubois, February 20, 2012
The national meeting held by the CGT on January 31 with the leaders of the bourgeois “left” parties aimed to promote the Socialist Party’s presidential candidate.
Workers in Germany and Europe must defend the Greek working class
By Ulrich Rippert, February 18, 2012
The European working class and especially German workers must come to the aid of the Greek population.
German President Wulff resigns
By Peter Schwarz, February 18, 2012
Wulff is only the tenth president since the founding of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1949, but the second to resign under the chancellorship of Angela Merkel.
Portugal’s labour reforms provoke mass opposition
By Paul Mitchell, February 18, 2012
Reform of Portugal’s labour laws and the right-wing coalition government’s austerity measures are provoking mass opposition.
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