Report from European postal workers’ meeting organised by GUE/NGL
“Liberalisation has turned the market into the wild west. Those countries that haven’t been subjected to liberalisation yet – beware.” This is what one Dutch postal worker told a meeting organised in the European Parliament in early March. The meeting was co-hosted by Joe Higgins MEP of the Socialist Party and was... More
Bring the resources of the Hedge Funds into public ownership!
Joe Higgins MEP explains his abstention on today’s vote on the Financial Transactions Tax resolution and calls instead for the hedge funds to be taken into public ownership and their resources invested into society for the benefit of all. He criticises the Commission for conspiring with the speculators in their attacks on... More
Three members of Socialist Resistance (Socialist Party in Kazakhstan) beaten and arrested – send protest letters
On 7 March, in Taraz, southern Kazakhstan, three activists from Socialist Resistance (CWI), Dmitri Tikhonv, Vladimir Lomaev and comrade Mikhail were arrested by police. They were held outside a culture centre where a rock festival was taking place. A police patrol approached and asked the three to ‘accompany them’. A scuffle... More
Joe Higgins MEP condemns the use of preferential trade agreements to dominate developing countries
At a plenary session, Joe Higgins MEP questions Karl de Gucht, EU Trade Commissioner, on the impact that preferential trade agreements have on the economies of the developing countries around the world as well as the awarding of preferential agreements to countries involved in serious human rights abuses and attacks on minorities... More
Iceland rejections rejects repayment plan – where is the mandate for NAMA?
The rejection by the Icelandic people, by such a decisive margin, of the proposed repayment package to major UK and Dutch depositors to the Landsbanki is to be welcomed by working people and the unemployed throughout the world. Had the terms “negotiated” by the Icelandic government amounting to €3.9 billion of repayments... More
Free Mumia Abu-Jamal – Report from meeting organised by the GUE/NGL
“Mumia Abu-Jamal has been on Death Row for almost 30 years in Pennsylvania. He’s currently sitting in a very small dark cell on Death Row. He is in solitary confinement as are all on Death Row. Mumia only gets to bathe three times a week. He is allowed outside five days a week for a little over an hour. However, when he is... More
Report from the “Women and the Economic Crisis” meeting in the European Parliament
A meeting was held in the European Parliament last week titled ‘Women and the Economic Crisis’. The event brought together many activists, left wing parties and women’s’ groups and was hosted by the United Left group (GUE/NGL). The meeting discussed the effects of the economic crisis on women and what solutions the left had.... More
