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Thousands rally for publicly run health services in Madrid
More than 60,000 health workers and citizens turned out in the streets of Madrid in the fifth mass protest against the privatisation of the capital’s health services since the start of the year. Unions CCOO and UGT and the radical United Left party formed part of the ‘white tide’ rising against the plans of the … Continue reading
The class nature of inflation
Prices rises affect different income groups differently new figures for Italy show. One more argument for wage hikes for middle and low incomes New figures show how inflation has hit the worst-off hardest in Italy. Official data released for the seven years between 2005 and 2012 showed that those with lowest average spending saw it … Continue reading
Franco’s Barcelona 1939-45 in Photos
The Photographic Archive of Barcelona has opened the exhibition ‘Postwar Barcelona, 1939-1945′, that shows photographs of one of the darkest periods of the Catalan capital. The exhibition shows a series of photographs from the official Francoist view of daily life of postwar Barcelona, including official visits from Nazi Germany and fascist Italy.The show runs until … Continue reading
The Rise and Fall of the Welfare State
The welfare state is under attack in Norway as elsewhere in Europe. It must be defended, as far as possible, but there’s no chance of getting a new class compromise to rebuild it when the conditions underpinning that historic deal between bosses and labour many decades ago have been swept way, along with controls on … Continue reading
How Iceland liberated itself from finance
It is possible to cut finance down to size and emerge from the crisis. To make the banks pay without falling foul of European rules. And even to convince the IMF of its strategy. Giacomo Gabbuti looks at the lessons from Iceland While they were turning off the lights at that circus that is Davos, Iceland … Continue reading
Iceland’s Revolt Wants to Go Viral
Iceland has suffered much like other nations during the global financial crisis, but the Icelanders’ struggle to overcome the disaster has taken on historic dimensions that are relevant to all countries, says Andrew Sullivan. Read on at Counterpunch
Spain: Amnesty campaigns over impunity for police violence
Amnesty International has delivered more than 60,000 signatures to the Interior Ministry to demand an end to police impunity over abuses committed against peaceful demonstrators during last year’s anti-austerity protests. The human rights organization produced a report in October into policing of protests across Europe in which people were beaten and kicked, sprayed with tear … Continue reading
It’s not the crisis, it’s patriarchy
Feminists demonstrated in Spain Friday against plans to turn the clock back on abortion laws. The protests were part of Global Day of Action for Access to Safe and Legal Abortion. Beginning in Latin America in the 1990s, the day gained special importance in Spain after the announcement by the Minister of Justice, Alberto Ruiz-Gallardón, … Continue reading
Opposition to austerity escalates in Iberian peninsula amid huge protests
Mass protests took place on the Iberian Peninsula Saturday against deepening austerity measures. In Spain marches and rallies organised by unions and civil society organisations demanded a referendum on the public spending cuts and tax rises and in Portugal some estimates suggest it was the largest popular protest since the revolutionary days of 1974: Photos, video of day … Continue reading
72% of French people want referendum on Permanent Austerity Treaty-poll.
72% of French people want a referendum on the Fiscal Compact treaty, according to a poll. The CSA poll, conducted for l’Humanité newspaper, comes as the radical Left Front renewed demands for the decision to be made by all the French people using this method of popular vote. President François Hollande plans to adopt the new treaty, … Continue reading
Spain’s supermarket expropriations spread
Supermarket expropriations have extended to other parts of Spain, following the example of ‘Robin Hood’ mayor José Manuel Sánchez Gordillo in Andalusia. A store of the global supermarket chain Carrefour in the town of Merida in the western region of Extremadura was hit Friday by 50 members of the Platform for Basic Income in Extremadura. … Continue reading
Lessons for Europe from China
To get out of its economic crisis Europe needs to learn from China. By John Ross. Socialist Economic Bulletin
Italian workers, students block trains over labour reforms
Piaggio workers blocked trains Thursday morning in protest at regressive labour reforms being proposed by the government of Mario Monti. A sit-in, organised by the local branch of metalworker union FIOM took place between 9.10 and 9.30 at Pontedra station, near the northern town of Pisa, blocking Florence-Pisa services. University and secondary students joined the metalworkers … Continue reading
Madrid’s men and women in black
Last Friday thousands of local government workers took to the streets of Madrid. The reason – cuts by the capital’s right wing Popular Party administration to public services and work rights of the public servants delivering them. The government had just imposed changes to collective contracts and wide ranging increases to local taxes and tariffs. … Continue reading
Spanish bankers bailed out again
Rajoy’s strategy on the banks: privatise the gains, socialise the losses Six months ago Mariano Rajoy pledged not to give ‘a single euro of public money’ to the banks. Last week, this promise went the same way as his pledges on not raising tax: in the shredder. Spain’s right wing prime minister has unveiled yet … Continue reading
WAGES SLIDE
Wealth Inequality in Europe
RADICAL VOICES
Italy’s Healthcare Crisis
NO TO WATER PRIVATISATION
Filthy Rich
SANTA DRAGHI’S COMING
WORKERS FIGHTING BACK
FLORENCE’S BUS LUMACA
Massive Spanish protest
FRENCH FACTORY OCCUPATION
International Workers Day 2012
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Discrimination: legal news
- Lithuania - A group of NGOs address the Parliament proposing amendments to the Law on Equal Treatment (PDF 63 kB)
- Romania - Amendments to the Anti-discrimination Law adopted as emergency ordinance without observing public consultations procedures (PDF 59 kB)
- Romania - Proposed amendments to the Anti-discrimination Law are presented by the NCCD for public consultations (PDF 58 kB)
