Western Europe
Bosnia faces collapse
By Paul Mitchell, October 8, 2009
A number of reports have pointed to the increasing threat of Bosnia and Herzegovina collapsing, and even about the possibility of war breaking out.
British care industry using foreign students as cheap labour
By Ajantha Silva, October 8, 2009
Employers in privately run nursing homes, care homes, and care agencies are more and more dependent on foreign students as their main source of cheap, skilled and flexible labour.
Roman Polanski denied bail in Switzerland
By Hiram Lee, October 7, 2009
The Swiss Justice Ministry has denied Roman Polanski's request for release from prison while awaiting extradition. The media frenzy surrounding the case continues.
The new leadership of the German Social Democratic Party
Opportunists, lobbyists, careerists
By Ulrich Rippert, October 7, 2009
The latest change of leadership in the SPD has already made clear that the party is reacting to its recent defeat at the polls by maintaining its right-wing course.
Greece: New PASOK government to move quickly to impose austerity measures
By Stefan Steinberg, October 6, 2009
Following federal elections on Sunday, the Greek ruling class is banking on PASOK and the trade unions to enforce the pro-business and anti-welfare policies that Karamanlis and his New Democracy were ...
IMF chief economist calls for drastic UK spending cuts
By Robert Stevens, October 6, 2009
The International Monetary Fund has said Britain must introduce radical spending cuts, including raising the retirement age beyond 65 and introducing charges for health care.
Britain: BAe Systems faces prosecution for bribery
By Jean Shaoul, October 5, 2009
The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) is to ask the attorney general to prosecute arms manufacturer BAe Systems for bribing officials in South Africa, Tanzania, the Czech Republic and Romania.
Germany: The role of the Free Democratic Party in the next government
By Dietmar Henning, October 5, 2009
On Monday October 5, just one week after Germany’s federal elections, the Christian Democratic Union and Christian Social Union (CDU/CSU) begin talks in Berlin with the neo-liberal Free Democratic P...
Britain: The denouement looms for Labour
By Chris Marsden, October 3, 2009
At its annual conference in Brighton, Labour indeed looked like a party that had “lost the will to live.”
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 194...
Germany: Whither the SPD?
The working class and the decline of social democracy
By Ulrich Rippert, October 3, 2009
The decline of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) vote to 23 percent was the product of a collapse in popular support, particularly in the working class.
A new period of class struggle and inter-imperialist conflict
By Chris Marsden, October 2, 2009
The following remarks were given by Chris Marsden, national secretary of the Socialist Equality Party of Britain, at an election-eve rally held Saturday, September 26, in Berlin by the Partei für Soz...
