Europe

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.

GREECE | 04 – 01 – 2009 | The Israeli Zionists once again are slaughtering the people of Palestine. With the complete support of the imperialists, both the US and European Union ones, are bombing and murdering the Palestinians in Gaza Strip after they had imposed for long time a blockade of starvation and genocide similar with the blockade that ...

Occupied schools and faculties, the wave of protests mounts the pressure GREECE | 17 – 12 – 2008 | On Monday 15 December thousands of secondary education pupils demonstrated for hours in front of the Athens’ Police General Headquarters their anger for the murder of Alexis and for the government’s attempts to “balance” it with the “destruction” provoked during the ...

GREECE | 16 – 12 – 2008 | The brutal murder of the 15-year-old Alexis Gregoropoulos, on Saturday December 6, in the centre of Athens by a policeman who cold-bloodedly shot him, was the fatal result of the Greek governments’ policy that in the last years has strengthened state terror against the people’s, working and youth movement (high school students, ...

GREECE | 09 – 12 – 2008 | 3rd Statement of the Communist Organization of Greece (KOE) (a) Monday 8 December Yesterday was a day of protests all over the country. The secondary education pupils gathered in their schools and then headed to the centre of the cities in their dozens of thousands. They demonstrated their anger in front of ...

KÖLN | 07 – 11 – 2008 | The German State continues its aggressive measures against progressive and revolutionary democrats. On November 5th 2008 the police raided three brunches of the Anatolia Federation Association under the alleged reason “operation against the DHKP/C” and also raided houses of activists. So far three people have been taken under custody.