Europe

King Juan Carlos quit his Crown this morning (June 2nd) and right now the government is making preparations to pass it on to his heir and proclaim him King on a solemn session of the Cortes (Spanish parliament)  that will take place on the next days. Rajoy, always a...

Approval of the austerity package imposes new attack on the workers. The population responds with outrage on the streets of Athens. The approval of the new austerity package by the Greek Parliament on February 12, was a further dramatic chapter of a nation plundered by the capital. The poll...

A new terrorist attack, the third one in less than two years, hits France. In the middle of the celebration for the French National Holliday, at least 84 people were killed when being run over by a truck which headed against the crew at a high speed, in the...

On Wednesday 8 July, the government of Boris Johnson in the person of Chancellor Sunak Rishi, announced that the government will make available £2bn pounds to mitigate the economic and social crisis caused by the Coronavirus. By Etiandro Costa The government admits the following on the gov.uk website. The global economy...

No return to work without full safety measures Against the economic crisis The ravages of the COVID-19 pandemic have laid bare the fault lines that run through British society. Over 4 million people have tested positive, and over 120,000 people have died with the highest death rates amongst frontline workers, black,...

    Following more than a year of struggle by workers and students to stop government and council cuts, the government is pressing ahead with the wholesale decimation of public services. In the last year we have seen the beginnings of huge austerity cuts and privatisation plans for public services because...

IWL-FI statement before the second round of the French presidential elections.   The former banker and minister of Hollande, Macron, obtained a meager victory in the first round of the French presidential elections, disputing the second round with the extreme-right, xenophobic leader of the Front National, Marine LePen. The presidential election opens...

Files, detentions, Police, and Civil Guard’s convoys…. Such is the response of the PP government and the State to the Catalonian decision of carrying out the referendum. Before events like this, we reaffirm our full rejection to the government’s action and our call to all workers and students: Let’s take...

The case of Sea Watch, a ship that is part of the non-governmental action fleet called Mediterranea Saving Humans, has already gone down in history of the world's best chronicles. By: Stefano Bonomi This self-organized experience of overseeing the central Mediterranean took shape the day after the franchised NGOs have been...