general strike
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UK: ‘An attack on solidarity’
LABOUR went into meltdown today as union leaders and MPs blasted Sir Keir Starmer for sacking Sam Tarry from his front-bench team. The fallout came as former shadow chancellor John McDonnell backed calls for a general strike. Continue reading
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Italy Calls General Strike: “Our Lives Are Worth More Than Your Profits”
Italy is the global epicenter of the pandemic, with more than 64,000 cases of infection and almost 7,000 deaths, half of which occurred in the last week. This is the result of both neoliberal austerity measures that defunded healthcare in Italy and the criminal negligence of the EU. Continue reading
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France at a Crossroads
The nationwide general strike in France, now entering its record seventh week, seems to be approaching its crisis point. Despite savage police repression, about a million people are in the streets protesting President Emmanuel Macron’s proposed neoliberal “reform” of France’s retirement system, established at the end of World War II and considered one of the… Continue reading
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Video: Most Greeks Look to Left for Solutions, but Far Right Gaining Strength
Costas Lapavitsas Pt.2: Left party Syriza leads polls but conditions for fascism also developing as crisis deepens Continue reading
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Video: Britain’s Unions Bring London to a Standstill
100 thousand workers march on the capital as unions warn austerity isn’t working and threaten a general strike for the first time since 1926 Continue reading
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Video: Britain's Unions Bring London to a Standstill
100 thousand workers march on the capital as unions warn austerity isn’t working and threaten a general strike for the first time since 1926 Continue reading
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Guided By Our Grandchildren By Jane Miller
Paternoster Square, in the heart of London, is the grim and newish development owned by Mitsubishi. It contains the Stock Exchange, Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch and a wing of the London School of Economics (once the nursery of left politics, now a bastion of the right). It was there that the Occupy protestors planned to… Continue reading
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Insurgent Notes | The Next Step for Occupy Wall Street: Occupy Buildings, Occupy Workplaces
Today, after two months of occupations and the attacks on the occupations in Portland, Oakland and now Manhattan, OWS might be crossing a new threshold–a massive convergence of students in Union Square and a working-class convergence in Foley Square attempting to give reality to the growing calls for a general strike. Continue reading
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General Strike in Portugal in 24 November
With a deeper recession, we will enter a destructive cycle of austerity policies, added recession and higher debt, repeating what is already happening, namely in Greece, with disastrous outcomes for the workers, people and country, which are very visible today.” Continue reading
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Video: Mother of All Strikes: Greece Grinds to a Halt By grtv
Greece is closed for 48 hours – flights are grounded, schools, shops and factories all quiet – as the country endures what’s being called the ‘mother of all strikes’. It’s arguably the biggest protest since the financial turmoil that’s crippling the country began – but more cuts could be coming. Continue reading
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Greece Newslinks 3-6 October 2011
6 October 2011 — williambowles.info 6 October 2011 Greece government workers stage protest strike San Francisco Chronicle As Greece struggles to avoid a catastrophic default, demonstrators in Athens expressed outrage over their misfortune and bewilderment at a crisis that shows no signs of easing. “Nobody knows what’s going on. Every day they say something different.… Continue reading
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Videos: Organize, Counterattack! by the Communist Party of Greece
“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 government, the EU, and… Continue reading
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The struggle in the squares By Panos Petrou
Greece’s Prime Minister George Papandreou and his PASOK party government survived a June 21 confidence vote in parliament, but he will face continued mass protests as he pushes for yet more devastating austerity measures. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 