Europe

GERMANY | 02 – 11 – 2009 | It is now for almost 27 years that the African American journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal has been on death row in Pennsylvania, U.S.A., as a political prisoner. His trial and his conviction for murder were a typical example for racist bias and class justice. The presiding judge denied Mumia the funds necessary for ...

UKRAINE | 16 – 10 – 2009 | From a news release by the Coordination Council of Workers’ Movement of Ukraine (KSRD) published in the newspaper “Workers Action” in September. A trial aimed at repressing job actions by the workers at a private processing plant in the city of Krasny Luch of the Lugansk region, Ukraine, will reopen on Oct. ...

Stand Strong against Fascism and Racism! Stop the Persecution of Anti‐Racist Activists in Italy! Stop the Crackdown on Undocumented Migrants in Italy and Europe! This we say in the International Migrants Alliance as we condemn the political persecution of anti‐racist activists by the Berlusconi government in Massa, Italy. On October 9, Alessandro of the Party of the Committees to Support ...

NETHERLANDS | 01 – 10 – 2009 | The European Court of First Instance (ECFI) annulled yesterday all decisions and a regulation of the Council of the European Union (EU) that had maintained Prof. Jose Maria Sison in its so-called terrorist blacklist. The removal of the name of Prof. Sison from the blacklist is the essence or main point of ...

EUROPE | 23 – 09 – 2009 | The European Court of First Instance (ECFI) will issue in Luxembourg  on 30 September  its judgment  on Case T-341/07 of  Prof. Jose Maria Sison versus the Council of the European Union (EU), in which he complains against the maintenance of his name in the EU terrorist blacklist  and demands the removal of ...

ENGLAND | 18 – 07 – 2009 | UK unemployment is rising faster in this recession than at any time since the 1980s, according to official figures. The BBC News website is keeping track of jobs lost and created. This is not a comprehensive study but a snapshot from around the UK since 1 January. UK unemployment rose by a ...

ITALY | 07 – 07 – 2009 | The state repression in Genoa, the July 2001 is still in our minds. Then the bourgeois democracy dropped its mask and showed its real fascist  and dictatorial essence. We do not forget the batons of the police and mass and beatings first  prepared by the centre-“left” government and then executed by the ...

EVIAN-LES-BAINS | 07 – 07 – 2009 | British Prime Minister Gordon Brown joins French President Nicolas Sarkozy in this Alpine town Monday to prepare for the G8 and agree on new efforts to stem the flow of migrants. The 30th Franco-British summit in Evian-les-Bains follows up on Sarkozy’s high-profile state visit to London in March last year when Brown ...

ROME | 07 – 07 – 2009 | Italy adopted a tough law against illegal immigration on Thursday, including a measure allowing citizens to mount their own patrols, despite fierce criticism from rights groups and the Vatican. The European Commission announced it would examine the new measures to determine whether they comply with EU norms, warning that “automatic expulsion rules ...

ITALY | 30 – 05 – 2009 | An initiative to strengthen contacts and relationships in the international communist movement. The entry into the terminal phase of the second general crisis of capitalism has increased the need and urgency to strengthen the international relations of the (new) Italian Communist Party.