Europe on June 30,  2011 Greece: Protests Against Vote Continue  As members of Greece’s parliament prepare to vote on a second bill to hasten planned austerity measures, around 300 people were injured and 50 stores were damaged in ongoing protests in Athens over the planned cuts. Police used tear gas in an attempt to [...]

  The collapse of the Spanish model threatens this pyramid scheme from several directions: first, German and French banks’ exposure is far greater in Spain than in Greece and Ireland; second, the scale of the cajas’  problems has yet to be fathomed; third, the social problem—a population that has grown by 18 per cent in [...]

  Perhaps it’s one of history’s surprises that the popular uprising surging through Spain today (and which is beginning to reverberate throughout the rest of Europe) was sparked on the 140th anniversary of the Paris Commune, a heroic moment in which the fundamental demand was also that of democracy. But a democracy conceived as a [...]

The union’s most important challenge right now is to make good on its founding promise—that workers can build a democratic union willing to stand up and fight. For NUHW’s members, there is no going back to the union they once had. And workers from Santa Rosa to San Diego have demonstrated they’re ready to build [...]

  TRNN Replay: Debate continues over night as Conservative government imposes new contract on postal workers Transcript DAVID DOUGHERTY, TRNN: On Thursday, June 23, the Canadian Parliament convened to act on legislation that will force Canada Post workers to return to the job, following an extended debate over a high-profile and unresolved labor dispute between [...]

1 ‘Eurozone on verge of economic collapse’- George Soros Mon Jun 27, 2011 4:11PM presstv   Billionaire George Soros says Europe’s debt crisis has brought the eurozone to the brink of an “economic collapse” and inevitably some of its members will leave the union.   “There’s no arrangement for any countries leaving the euro, which [...]

Holding to the euro, and accepting the austerity measures, is fundamentally a mechanism to punish the Greek population and transfer resources to German banks. There is no reason for the government to force its own people to live through it as a sort of morality play. Default is not the dirty word that nobody wants [...]

  News roundup 1  “The Peoples Have the Power and Never Surrender.  Organize, Counterattack!” was the slogan written in Greek and in English on the banner that the All Workers’ Militant Front (PAME) hung from the Acropolis on 27 June, on the eve of the 48-hour strike against the barbaric anti-people measures of the social-democratic [...]

  ”The “international community” does not exist.  It comes down to the U.S. ambassador, followed automatically by those of Europe. One cannot but deplore that the European “left,” even the radical “left,” has lost all understanding of what imperialism really is.” by Samir Amin But revolts, to become revolutionary advances, will have to overcome many [...]

  “The structural crisis of the capital system as a whole, which we are experiencing in our time on an epochal scale, is bound to get considerably worse. It will become in due course much deeper, in the sense of invading not only the world of more or less parasitic global finance but every single [...]