Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by KILKENNY Allison
At the end of November, hundreds of Amazon employees in Germany began staging a series of wildcat strikes. On Monday, hundreds of workers again walked off the job in an effort to put pressure on the company during the busy days before Christmas. The Ver.di union says Amazon workers receive lower (…)
, by DELCLOS Carlos, MARMOL Elvi
For over four years, the Plataforma de Afectados por la Hipoteca (PAH) have responded to a national housing crisis through grassroots organising and direct action. To this day the movement has prevented over 800 evictions across the country. Here Carlos Delclós interviews PAH activist Elvi (…)
, by TURIGLIATTO Franco
The mobilization of certain sectors of Italian society (the so-called forconi –pitchforks), which took place at the beginning of December, demonstrates how the country is now entering a new phase of its social and economic crisis. In the past the social groups that this movement represents shied (…)
, by KIM Gal
For the past two decades, the political class of Slovenia has been congratulating itself for undertaking the most successful transition from socialism to a market economy in Eastern and South-Eastern Europe. But this success story has also brought about the dismantling of the welfare state and (…)
, by TURIGLIATTO Franco
The days of action on October 18 and 19, 2013 (a day of mobilization by the “rank-and-file unions”, with total abstention by the big confederations, and the demonstration on the following day of various social movements) have clearly shown a new social effervescence and a new willingness to (…)
, by MARTINI Andrea
Tens of thousands of workers, young people, migrants and activists from the environmental movements peacefully filled up Rome’s streets in two extraordinary days of mobilisation on the 18th and 19th of October.
Autumn 2013 has been yet another autumn of crisis, of factory closures, of cuts (…)
, by VIVAS Esther
Nobody said that it would be easy, but it is necessary to try. And this is precisely what is being done through the Constituent Process in Catalonia, led by the Benedictine nun Teresa Forcades and the economist Arcadi Oliveres, along with many other people. To create social consciousness, to (…)
, by IVANCHEVA Mariya
In the past half-decade, post-socialist Bulgaria has witnessed a persistent wave of protests. These protests have coincided with the global wave of anti-neoliberal mobilization against austerity, debt, and precarity, heralded by the Arab Spring, Occupy Wall Street, and Indignados movements. Yet, (…)
, by APOSTOLOVA Raya
Perhaps one of the most common jokes that are circulating lately in Bulgaria is the one that depicts emigration as the most relevant escape from the politico-economic crisis. The joke goes something like this:
Question: “What are the possible exits out of the crisis?”
Answer: “Terminal 1 and (…)
, by IVANCHEVA Mariya
Just few months after the Bulgarians overturned the government of Boyko Borissov in February 2013, they are back in the streets in tens of thousands demanding the resignation of the new government. While this might look like the same wave of protests, there has been little continuity. The (…)
, by People’s Assembly
The declaration below represents the beginning of a democratic process leading towards a second People’s Assembly in early 2014. This declaration represents the views of all those who initially called for the People’s Assembly. We hope it will be endorsed by the People’s Assembly on 22nd June. (…)
, by MAC UAID Liam
If anyone has made a film about a delegate’s day at the People’s Assembly it probably starts with her listening to the day’s early morning news bulletin. In it Labour committed itself to just as much austerity as the Tories. “So when George Osborne stands up next week and announces his cuts in (…)
, by SARTZEKIS Andreas
Everyone agrees, in Greece and elsewhere: the wild decision of the Prime Minister Samaras to announce, at midday on Tuesday 10 June, the closing of the public audio-visual service ERT for the same evening is surprising and of course requires explanation. And a massive response!
In the final (…)
, by VIVAS Esther
Who is the Troika? A year ago few knew the answer to this question. We knew it by reference, to its stay in Greece, and it wasn’t good. The Troika was synonymous with austerity, adjustment and cuts, hardship, hunger and unemployment.
But it was not until the arrival in Spain of the much denied (…)
, by Collective / Multiple signers
In September, October and November we filled the streets of Portugal showing clearly that the people are against the austerity and destructive policies imposed by the government and its allies, the International Monetary Fund, the European Commission and the European Central Bank - the troika. (…)
, by IVANCHEVA Mariya
On Wednesday, 20th of February 2013, the Bulgarian government headed by Boyko Borissov has deposited its resignation. What happened? What comes next?
Over the last week, Bulgarians in most big cities have been out in the streets, protesting against the increased electricity and heating bills. (…)
, by Collective / Multiple signers
This is a call to all those millions of people in Britain who face an impoverished and uncertain year as their wages, jobs, conditions and welfare provision come under renewed attack by the government. With some 80% of austerity measures still to come, and with the government lengthening the (…)
, by UDRY Charles-André
There is one “economic” forecast which is unlikely to be proved wrong as far as Greece is concerned: the one regarding unemployment. ELSTAT (the Greek Institute of Statistics) has just published the “results” for October 2012: the official number of unemployed amounted to 1,345,715; an increase (…)
, par ROMERO BAEZA Miguel
This was written as the Prologue to the Castilian-language edition of Daniel Bensaid’s book on « Trotskyisms » by Miguel Romero a long-time central leader of the LCR in the Spanish state, today a member of Izquierda Anticapitalista. It was translated and published as a contribution towards the (…)
, by TOUSSAINT Éric
For the first part of this series, see on ESSF (article 27545), 2007-2012: Six years that shook the banking world and for part three (article 27547), Financial Crisis: The ECB and the Fed at the service of the major private banks.
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We should not underestimate the (…)
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