Europe

Global youth unemployment: powder keg to explode capitalism?

The statistics are alarming. Young people make up 17 percent of the world’s population, but 40 percent of its unemployed.…

January 9, 2014

A brief history of ‘marriage,’ part 25

Working-class marriage under capitalism In setting the stage for an examination of working-class marriage in the epoch of capitalist society,…

December 13, 2013

A brief history of ‘marriage,’ part 24

Sexual repression as an instrument of class domination The ruling classes of the early state societies had written legal codes…

December 1, 2013

A brief history of ‘marriage,’ part 22

Patriarchal heterosexual marriage under slavery & feudalism In her well-researched book, “Marriage, a History,” Stephanie Coontz suggests that one of…

November 3, 2013

The crime at Lampedusa Island

A boat crowded with 500 refugees that had left from a port in Libya foundered off Italy’s Lampedusa island, located…

October 11, 2013

German elections: Merkel’s victory hides uneasy future

Angela Merkel’s third election as chancellor of Germany with the victory of her center-right CDU-CSU party opens a window on…

October 4, 2013

Economic contraction and military expansion

This essay is reprinted from the pamphlet “Reindustrialization: The Menace Behind the Promise,” written by Workers World Party founder Sam…

September 19, 2013

Why is capitalism at a dead end?

The following is a slightly edited version of a talk Fred Goldstein, author of "Capitalism at a Dead End" and…

July 25, 2013

Greece’s catastrophe shows what lies ahead for Europe

Speaking at the Left Forum in New York, June 9, Eirini Dourou said that the working people of Greece were…

June 16, 2013

Sweden’s immigrant communities rebel

Many were shocked at the week of rebellion that began May 19 in the suburb of Husby just outside Stockholm,…

May 29, 2013