By LIZ ALDERMAN ATHENS — Anastasia Kastaniotou, a struggling mother of three, stood near the Greek Parliament building on Wednesday and threw up her hands as she contemplated an €11.5 billion austerity package that her country’s government was trying to tie up this week to keep Greece in the euro.   Prime Minister Antonis Samaras has been scrambling to seal a deal with his coalition government for fres ...

Students and their supporters throughout the Canadian province of Quebec are celebrating the ousting of Liberal Premier Jean Charest, the promise of the withdrawal of Bill 78 and most importantly the freeze in tuition fees. This victory comes after six months of student strike involving more than 190 000 students. Quebec students who already paid the lowest tuition fees across North America were faced with ...

Eighteen years since the end of Apartheid – and the dawn of ‘freedom and democracy’ -  the  brutal killings of 44 miners by the police in the Lonmin owned platinum mines at Marikana last Thursday has exposed the stark reality of the suffering and agony of the South African proletariat. Innumerable sporadic struggles have been crushed by the state repression in these long years of so called independence from ...

Last Friday, around 5 a.m., Greek Riot Police broke the picket lines at the Greek Steelworks, where the workers have been on a long-term heroic strike for 9 months now, raising waves of international solidarity. The strikers present at the factory were beaten and arrested. They have been taken to the Greek Police HQ, where they are still detained, and are expected to be judged in summary proceedings for fla ...

MADRID (AP) — Tens of thousands of angry Spaniards protested in 80 cities throughout Spain on Thursday against the government's latest austerity package, blaming officials for "ruining" the country. Protesters flooded Madrid's main Puerta del Sol square and the streets in front of parliament late into the night. Large deployments of riot police manned barricades in front of the legislature, fearing rising t ...

The 200 miners that were walking the “Black Marches” since the 22nd of June, have finally arrived in Madrid this week, only to be swallowed up by thousands of demonstrators who have taken to the streets again in support of their struggle. They have come to protest the Spanish government's decision to renege on their commitment to subsidize the sector until 2018, a decision that will affect all of the mining ...

De werknemers van Turkish Airlines (THY) strijden al zes weken tegen de ontslagen en het stakingsverbod in de luchtvaart. Het bestuur van THY, gesteund door de AKP-regering, wil niets weten van de rechtvaardige eisen van duizenden werknemers. Sterker nog, de bazen worden steeds agressiever tegen de arbeiders die opkomen voor hun rechten. Bliksemsnel stakingsverbod De maanden durende cao-onderhandelingen tus ...

Thousands of Spanish miners and their supporters flooded the streets of Madrid in a second day of mass protests, just hours after the country’s leader announced a nationwide tax hike. Workers marched up the city’s main avenue, wearing hardhats and carrying walking sticks, to protest outside the Industry Ministry. Many walked for nearly three weeks in the blazing sun before finally reaching Madrid. The crowd ...

Workers at Mining Industry factory in Northern Greece vote for and prepare for self-management of their factory – victory to the workers!   greek original   Concerning the struggle at VIOMIHANIKI METALLEYTIKI (Mining Industry) in Thessaloniki The administration of VIOMIHANIKI METALLEYTIKI, a subsidiary of Filkeram-Johnson, has abandoned the factory since May 2011, along with its workers. In respon ...

(voor Nederlands scroll down) An evening of debate on new activist movements, traditional workers organizations, creation of jobs and the end of unlimited exploitation of resources. Case study: Steelworkers and miners strikes in Greece and Spain.Organized by Take the Square-Zuid Holland and REinFORM WHERE: Vondelbunker, Amsterdam WHEN: 14th of July, Saturday, from 18'00 to 21'00  In October 2011, Greek ...