Austria
Austria: Poll shows far-right FP as strongest party
By Markus Salzmann, June 9, 2011
According to a poll conducted in late May, the ultra-right Freedom Party of Austria (FP), led by Heinz-Christian Strache, has the highest level of support in Austria.
Australian Labor government, Greens hail imperialist assault on Libya
By Patrick O’Connor, March 21, 2011
The entire political and media establishment has thrown its support behind the drive to oust the right-wing Gaddafi dictatorship and replace it with a client government amenable to the strategic and economic priorities of US and European imperialism.
The Bavarian state bank’s corruption scandal
By Michael Schneider and Markus Salzmann, January 26, 2011
Caught in a whirlpool of corruption, businessmen and politicians involved in the BayernLB scandal are conspiring to make the working class pay for the state-owned bank’s losses.
Austrian government adopts austerity budget
By Markus Salzmann, November 9, 2010
At the end of October the Austrian grand coalition adopted a rigid austerity budget which involves massive social cuts.
First “bad bank” set up for Eastern Europe
By Markus Salzmann and Wolfgang Weber, January 30, 2010
A so-called “bad bank” for heavily indebted East European countries had been established in the Austrian capital of Vienna.
Massive bank scandal: Austrian right-winger Jörg Haider’s legacy
By Markus Salzmann and Peter Schwarz, December 22, 2009
A bank scandal in Bavaria reveals the close ties with extreme right-wing forces in Austria.
Politicians, media strive to contain student protests in Austria and Germany
By Johannes Stern, November 25, 2009
Influential figures in political, business and media circles are seeking to use the political confusion in current student demonstrations to stifle the protests.
Student protests continue in Austria
By Marius Heuser, November 18, 2009
Austrian students have occupied lecture halls at universities throughout the country to protest against deteriorating conditions and increasing commercialism in the country’s education system.
Student protests in Austria
By Markus Salzmann and Johannes Stern, November 7, 2009
Students in Austria are engaging in strikes and protest actions with the central demand: “More money for education, not the banks and corporations.”
Social Democrats suffer historical defeat in Upper Austria
By Markus Salzmann, October 3, 2009
As in neighbouring Germany, the Austrian Social Democratic Party (SPÖ) suffered a historic defeat in recent state elections, receiving just 24.5 percent of the votes cast, its worst showing since 1945.
Austria: Collapse for Social Democrats in Vorarlberg state election
By Markus Salzmann, September 26, 2009
In the election in the Austrian state of Vorarlberg last Sunday the Socialist Party (SPÖ) obtained its worst result in the history of the post-war Austrian Second Republic.
Australia: Global institutions tell Rudd government to cut spending
By Mike Head, July 2, 2009
Warning of continuing “weak” and “fragile” conditions in the Australian and world economy, global financial institutions have insisted that the Rudd government must make deep spending cuts in coming years to pay off mounting debts.
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